Data Center Relocation

End-to-End Solutions, Backed by Solid Experience

Data center relocations have increased dramatically over the past decade because of new technologies, the explosion of data, and heightened security concerns. Merger/acquisitions, remote computing, disaster recovery requirements and redundant data storage required for regulatory compliance all mean that a relocation is no longer a once-in-a-career event for today’s IT professionals.

However, relocating a data center is one of the most critical — and difficult — things a company can do. Data center moves must be accomplished without disruption to business-critical operations, loss of data or damage to equipment. Some companies choose a risky, do-it-yourself, approach to data center relocations. This approach increases the possibility of widespread data loss, data corruption and unplanned downtime for a number of reasons:

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  Data center relocations are infrequent events for most companies, so not many staff members have ever planned, executed or managed a data center relocation.
• Companies do not have any incentive to recruit, retain or train their staff for relocations because they occur so infrequently. As a result, companies lack the expertise, methodologies, best practices and recent knowledge of common pitfalls.
• A data center relocation is always an extra duty for IT departments which have to accomplish the move without a hitch — all while continuing to perform their day-to-day tasks.
• Moves disrupt and delay other IT projects and initiatives.

Your Relocation Experts

Collective project management and technical experts move data centers and data center equipment every day — and we have been doing it for over 12 years, for businesses both large and small, involving equipment of all makes, models, sizes and values for a large variety of industry and government organizations.

With Collective, you work with a single vendor to manage all of the details, from initial planning and contracting with multiple third parties (OEM vendors, transport, insurance, etc.) to end-to-end move execution. We can provide you with options for baseline to extensive planning, as well as the experience and best practices necessary to achieve a successful, incident-free data center relocation.

Collective has provided more than 5 million consulting hours of complex IT infrastructure services over the past 12 years. The Data Center Relocation Module takes advantage of this extensive IT infrastructure expertise to create set of proven, process-oriented services that help companies coordinate all facets of data center moves and offer a single point of contact for the customer.

Part of a Complete DCLM Solution

Relocation is a part of Collective’s Data Center LifeCycle Management (DCLM) solution, a proven way to simplify the management of complex IT environments. DCLM can help your company to expand, operate and evolve its data centers in an efficient, cost-effective manner.

The Benefits of Relocation With Collective

• Support for DCLM, a holistic, comprehensive, strategic view of the data center
• 12 years of experience relocating a large variety of data centers
• OEM independence with the ability to relocate and certify a wide variety of OEM brands of high-value equipment
• Security clearance coordination through our Field Security Officer (FSO), ensuring full security compliance in accordance with today’s complex relocations
• End-to-end transit insurance, protecting your equipment from the time we touch it until we turn it back over to you, reinstalled
• Reduced liability, minimizing the customer’s exposure to equipment handling liability risk by managing all of the resources under their Data Center Relocation Project Management Office (PMO) and Transit Insurance coverage