Making good decisions is not just a requirement of the C-Suite. It’s a critical skill at every level of an organization.

When considering a data center move, how do you know which decisions you’ll encounter?

How do you avoid decision paralysis costing valuable time?

What if you could attend a customized workshop at your facility? Once that demystifies the process of moving a data center?

Introducing the Data center moving workshop for all stakeholders. From executives, to IT directors, to staff, we cover important topics including:

1. The Executive’s Guide to Data Center Moving
2. Common problems that undermine almost every data center move, and
3. Critically important Post-Move issues that require planning right now

Decision-making is such an important skill in these data center relocation moves, that organizations need to avoid the paralysis trap.

Decisions that are not timely or not made at all are in fact more damaging than poor decisions.

Establishing a common sense of urgency for your move is one the best first steps you can take.

All the workshop details can be found at http://datacentermoving.com/datacenterworkshops

Reserve a spot right now!

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Watch a Video explaining the Workshop.

 

Corporate Relocations, Data Center Relocation, Data Center Relocation Checklist, Executive's Guide

Whether you move your data center yourself or engage data center move services, you are going to need to budget, plan, execute, and clean up the post-move mess. Avoiding common relocation mistakes while keeping your job can be quite a challenge. Our free data center moving guide can help you understand the relocation process. We’ve revised the moving guide to touch on budgeting, project plan checklists, and virtualization.

You might be surprised to learn that we help companies of all sizes. The data center move guide can be helpful for moving a small computer room as well as guiding your own development of a move project checklist.

Navigating the Perfect Storm

A data center move is often one component of a larger corporate relocation and can be a bit overwhelming. How much pressure are you experiencing? Time constraints, budget constraints, organizational pressures, and overworked staff all contribute to the perfect storm. The place to start is to understand the process, identify the milestones, and keep your options open when dealing with contingencies.

Our Services Give You Options

The consequence of indecision is often the most expensive mistake when moving a data center. Our expertise helps you navigate your unique data center relocation by avoiding costly mistakes. The first step is a conversation. Give us a call at 303-485-1115 .

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Transitional or Interim services are not for every organization, but few are prepared for the sudden departure of a key executive.

While it’s  typical for us to  provide these transitional services as part of a Data Center Relocation,  the services are available to all organizations.

What Problem Are You Trying to Solve?

We don’t pretend to read your mind and prefer to engage in a conversation about the issues that are driving your need for transitional services.  Common needs include:

• An unplanned and sudden departure
• A desire for a new direction
• Returning a sense of urgency to organizational priorities
• Fixing long-standing operational or technical issues
• Resolving complexities during a reorganization
• Allowing the search process to find the right permanent candidate

Whatever your reason, the first step is the conversation. Give us a call at 1-877-485-1115 and let us know how we can help.

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Most Data Center moves begin with the C-Level suite typically with a seemingly simple question: “How much is it going to cost us to move our data center?”

In the scramble to answer that question, a less-than-scientific process begins that often jeopardizes most data center moves before they begin.

• Data Center Move Planning is more important than getting a quick cost estimate. Before you send your staff off to search the Internet for the elusive data center move project plan, step back and do some planning yourself.
• Keeping the move confidential preserves many options including the ability to assemble advance teams to check out data center locations without jeopardizing your negotiating leverage.
• Expecting your Information Technology (IT) staff to know how to move a Data Center properly is unrealistic as most have never completed the task. Get educated with our Data Center Move Guide available in right-hand sidebar.
• Understand that your Data Center Relocation is unique and requires more than a generic data center move checklist you found on the web. Allow us to earn your business and make you the Superhero of your move.
• Be realistic about time-frames. Data Center Moves of size and complexity take 12 months or more to plan and execute properly. We can help you with a realistic time-line with the right services at the right time.

You reason that Google has rescued you before and you search harder to locate elements of your relocation plan. But when you come up short, then what?

• Where do you find the elusive data center move checklist?
• How do you calculate moving expenses for data center relocations?
• How do you write a data center relocation statement of work (SOW)?
• What do you need to know about data center site selection?
• What are the common factors that undermine almost every data center move?

It costs nothing to call us at 1-877-485-1115 to discuss your unique move. We’re ready when you are.

Corporate Relocations, Data Center Relocation, Data Center Relocation Checklist, Data Center Site Selection, Executive's Guide

Moving a data center should be a systematic task with plenty of planning and execution time to produce a solid relocation plan. More often, it’s a scramble to meet an objective set by executive management as part of a larger effort. Some common executive management misconceptions include:

1. Moving a data center is easy.
2. The Information Technology Staff can both move the data center and do their real jobs.
3. There will be zero down time during the move and there will be no new expenditures or duplicate equipment purchased.
4. Moving over the weekend is the best time to move.
5. It should be simple to construct the data center move budget from a Google search.

With that as a partial backdrop, you are searching for data center move plans, data center relocation budgets, and data center movers. You think about writing a data center relocation RFP (Request for Proposal) and find yourself overwhelmed with perfecting a statement of work (SOW). Meanwhile, your executive management wants to know how much this is going to cost and the scramble to build a budget begins as your search for average per square foot costs to move a data center.

You reason that Google has rescued you before and you search harder to locate elements of your relocation plan. But when you come up short, then what?

• Where do you find the elusive data center move checklist?
• How do you calculate moving expenses for data center relocations?
• How do you write a data center relocation statement of work (SOW)?
• What do you need to know about data center site selection?
• What are the common factors that undermine almost every data center move?

Our free data center moving guide can help you understand the complexity of a data center relocation. Educating your executive management is a critical and necessary element for a successful data center move. While Google can help you search for the puzzle pieces of a data center relocation, we can help you save money and avoid costly mistakes with our data center move planning and implementation services.

Do you need help with your data center move project plan? Our services make you the superhero of your move!

Corporate Relocations, Data Center Relocation, Data Center Relocation Checklist, Executive's Guide

Many data center or computer room moves are often part of a larger corporate relocation. In the early decision-making process, a judgment is made to determine the feasibility of the move and the cost. The computer room or data center expenses can often be an after-thought.

In the rush to get to a budget number, executive management is left without a realistic view of the costs in money, time, and internal resources. Setting an unrealistic expectation means the proper lead-time, coordination, and notification may be inadequate.

Just how do you calculate your moving expenses for a relocation?

Any suggestions you find with a Google search will be limited in the scope and depth of detail and are likely to leave you wanting more. Every relocation is different and those differences loom large in your relocation cost budget. Pressure to “get me some numbers” often results in missing important details.

Step 1 – Document your relocation assumptions.

Step 2 – Don’t grab someone else’s move template from the web, build your own because your relocation details are important.

Step 3 – Get an outside assessment of your move template to ensure you haven’t missed entire categories or important details.

Step 4 – Estimate or get quotes for your move categories. Separate the technical elements from the furniture and facilities and assign the technical elements to technical experts (not move coordinators). Don’t make the mistake of relying on Google searches for normalized costs such as per square foot numbers or average cost for a data center relocation.

Step 5 – Vary your assumptions and determine that effect on the costs you obtained in Step 4.

Step 6 – Add contingency to your range of costs you obtained in Step 5.

Step 7 – Now you are ready to present a realistic expense estimate for your relocation.

E-Oasis is a data center relocation firm and can help you with your data center move. Contact us using the information on your right.

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While every data center move has unique challenges at every phase, some common factors are at work undermining the move’s success. Awareness and action can mean the difference in the success or failure of your move. Let’s explore a few of them.

1. No Common Sense of Urgency (or No Urgency at all !)
2. The Accelerating Schedule Effect
3. Underestimating Coordination Issues
4. Failure to Contractually Obligate Vendors
5. Failure to Focus on equally critical post-move issues
6. Constructing a Plan where EVERYTHING has to go right

No Common Sense of Urgency (or No Urgency at all !)

A sense of urgency is essential in an organization that is preparing for a major move. Often you will find that there is no shared sense of urgency or worse…no urgency at all. Without this sense of urgency, decisions are deferred, in-fighting is allowed to continue, and priorities are not properly set to make the move successful.

The Accelerating Schedule Effect

An interesting thing happens the closer you get to your move date. The schedule appears to accelerate towards your milestones. In other words, the closer you get…the less hours in the day you have and fewer resources are available. When you review your schedule, pay particular attention to those final months with an eye toward building contingency buffers and resource alternatives.

Underestimating Coordination Issues

While the technical challenges are not small, neither is the coordination required across your organization. Plan for the coordination required with your customers, your vendors, your internal staff, your executive team, and your end-users. You wouldn’t be the first organization that failed to coordinate with their finance staff and missed payroll, vendor payments, and customer invoices due to an ill-timed move.

Failure to Contractually Obligate Vendors

Simply, if you need a vendor to perform a move-related service (like moving your Storage Area Network), then don’t leave that to a handshake. Get a statement of work that outlines the schedule and deliverables so that your key Vendors are Contractually on-board.

Failure to Focus on equally critical post-move issues

These can be different for each organization, but post-move employee retention and de-commissioning of unneeded services are two that rise to the top of most post-relocation plans.

Constructing a Plan where EVERYTHING has to go right

Virtually all move project plans suffer from this mistake. Review your plan with a qualified professional to ensure that key risk areas and contingencies are addressed.

Additional Resources

• What Every Executive should know about their data center relocation
• What are four reasons not to move your data center?
• Where do you find the elusive data center move checklist?
• How do you calculate moving expenses for data center relocations?
• How do you write a data center relocation statement of work (SOW)?

E-Oasis can plan your data center move. Use the contact information to your right to get started.

Corporate Relocations, Data Center Relocation, Data Center Relocation Checklist, Executive's Guide