Data Center Migrations: It’s in the Plan

Data Center Knowledge (Aug 19 2011)

1. When tackling a project as large as a data center migration – whether it’s for a consolidation initiative, IT upgrade project, or moving to another data center or co-location facility – the devil really is in the details. And proper planning is crucial to mitigating these risks. Taking a step back and looking over the last couple years, I’ve been focused on numerous migrations and lay out here some of the top challenges that I now plan for, in detail, ahead of time, rather than rallying the troops in the middle of the night to avoid an outage or, worse, needing to totally back out a migration at the eleventh hour. If it’s in the plans, regardless of whether you were actually spot-on in avoiding or working around the issue at time of execution, it demonstrates experience and proactive, rather than re-active, thinking. My executive and sponsor teams are ... (Read Full Article)

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