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?
Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is a rigorous approach to ensuring your business can continue to operate in the event of an unplanned outage. Despite all… Read More »Lessons in Geographic Diversity
Many organizations fail to plan properly for the post-move phase. Circuits and facilities need to be decommissioned, rapid response teams need to be ready to… Read More »Losing Staff During Post-Move is Common
As reported by Rich Miller at DataCenterKnowlege, forward-thinking Regional Economic Development Agencies are focusing on attracting large data center projects. The debate continues on the… Read More »A Data Center Move Primer for Regional Economic Development Agencies
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… Read More »How Do You Calculate Moving Expenses For Relocations?
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
Special Offer: Want the free checklist? Answer these 3 questions. Learn to write an RFP with our free crash course. Writing a Statement of Work… Read More »How to Write a Data Center Relocation Statement of Work (SOW)
The greening of the data center continues to grow in media popularity. In the rush to sell products and services that tie into the Green… Read More »What Are The Biggest Green Data Center Myths?
The Wyoming Business Council has earmarked $5 Million to provide reduction of the utility costs for electrical and/or broadband for the recruitment/growth of Tier II,… Read More »Wyoming Incentives to Lure Data Centers
While the data center green marketing push continues to gain momentum, the measured progress for green data centers is suspect. It’s unclear how much of… Read More »Pick the Low-Hanging Green Fruit First
Even as 365 Main takes the unprecedented step of publicly updating everyone on their root cause investigation of the generator failures that darkened many well-known… Read More »A Lesson in Geographic Diversity
There are a number of firms who specialize in data center design and do a great job. Unfortunately, there are many more who continue to… Read More »Easy to Avoid Data Center Design Mistakes
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
Not a day goes by without a inquiry for a quick estimate for moving a data center. After a futile search with Google looking for a benchmark… Read More »How to Develop Early Budgetary Estimates for Moving a Data Center
Data Center moves are expensive. Many equipment vendors use a strategy that strikes fear, uncertainty, and doubt when it comes time to move your equipment.… Read More »Why You Should Care About Independence
Common pitfalls to avoid include: Presuming that a move over the weekend represents the best time to move. This common misconception demonstrates a failure… Read More »Five Mistakes to Avoid During a Corporate Relocation
Do you need a roadmap for your upcoming datacenter or IT (Information Technology) move? By now, you have many questions: How much is this going… Read More »Our Data Center Moving Guide Helps You Avoid Mistakes