Information about Data Center Moving Checklists.
Data center moves are often triggered when your facility has run out of space, power, or cooling. With the proliferation of virtualization, you may view… Read More »Should You Virtualize Before or After Your Data Center Move?
While much has been written about data center site selection and data center commissioning, post move tasks are often overlooked entirely. Decommissioning is one of… Read More »What is Your Data Center Decommissioning Strategy?
It’s not uncommon to be planning a data center move into a facility that is being designed or is already under construction. Schedule pressures often… Read More »Data Center Commissioning: Push The Big Red Button
It’s well established that large data centers are seeking cheap power. That criteria can lead to locations where substation improvements are required to provide the… Read More »Modern Data Centers Require Solid Electrical Infrastructure
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… Read More »Common Executive Management Misconceptions of Data Center Moves
Data Center Knowledge does a great job of aggregating the downtime woes that continue to manifest in ways that should or could have been addressed.… Read More »Diversity Defeats Downtime – A Lesson Remembered?
Most data center move planning often overlooks the topic of acclimation. Your equipment has likely been powered on for years with spinning disks and CPU’s… Read More »Don’t Overlook Acclimation in Your Data Center Move
Let’s stipulate that many experts can help you with a site selection for your data center. Further, you can search for checklists and overviews and… Read More »What do you need to know about data center site selection?
UPDATE: This post has been substantially updated with more content. See the new and improved content: Data Center Move Checklist Primer The searching comes… Read More »The Elusive Datacenter Move Checklist
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… Read More »Common Undermining Move Factors with Data Center Relocations