Data Centers -
"The factory floor of the information
age"
Moving
your data center is,
perhaps, one of the most
challenging single event
projects an IT
department can face. It
has all the
characteristics of a
complex project. You
must know just what you
have (how many IT
departments have
current, complete
documentation?), be able
to design the new data
center layout, perform
the many layers of
planning necessary,
interface with all the
external points of
contact, execute the
move and then deal with
any resulting problems.
You must do this for
many disciplines
including building
construction, power,
HVAC, networking,
security, servers,
storage, databases,
applications, Internet
services and on and on.
And by the way, your
regular daily work
doesn’t go away.
How can you
minimize your risk . . .
?
Most
IT departments are
staffed with experts who
know their IT
environment. However, a
data center move is a
rare event in the life
of an IT department,
requiring many special
skills, across multiple
disciplines.
It is not the
kind of project where
move planning is done in
one’s spare time and
the move is done over a
weekend. Moving a data
center using this
approach is very high
risk. The reality is
that planning and moving
a data center is a very
complex project with
many potential points of
failure. In addition,
there are many
disciplines in a data
center move that
internal staff simply do
not get repetitions
with.
Ideally, you want
to engage a firm with
the project management
skills and technical
expertise in data center
moves and in each
individual IT
discipline. The Root
Group has those skill
sets and the deep
experience that can make
your data center move a
low risk project,
optimize your new data
center design and save
you money
