REMOVING THE FEAR OF A DC MIGRATION!
The IP House way to smooth and stress-free data migration
Jamieson Lee Hill, May 20th, 2024
Migration to a Colocation Data Centre can be an anxious experience for some companies. With IP House London, our meticulous approach allays those fears. IP House focuses on data integrity, security, and continuous communication, to mitigate risks and concerns over data transfer. Let’s find out more!
Why choose migration to IP House’s data centre colocation services?
“Colocation is often used as a replacement for traditional data centers, because it offers higher availability, reliability, certified building tier levels, energy efficiency, dedicated facilities management and the ability to scale.”
Source:
Gartner, 2019
The transition to colocation services bestows many benefits for a company. These include high availability, enhanced security, and scalable infrastructure that can outperform traditional in-house data centres. Overall, colocation gives your business a competitive edge.
Pre-Migration Planning: A Step-by-Step Guide
The pre-migration planning process by IP House includes a comprehensive set of audits, resource allocation, and timeline establishment. These all lead to a smooth transition with minimal downtime for your data.
Steps for Migration
When you decide to take the leap, there are a number of simple steps to migrate your data to IP House. We guarantee a seamless transition which will boost your IT efficiency and security. Let’s examine the steps together.
Purpose Identification
First off, ask yourself ‘Why Move?’ Determining the reasons for relocating your business to a new data centre is important. By understanding your motives for migration you will avoid unnecessary costs and complications.
Inventory Check
Cataloguing your current infrastructure, including applications, services, and hardware will help you get a clearer picture. You will know what needs to be kept, replaced, or discarded.
Contract Review
You should examine your agreement details with your current provider before migrating. Read your current data centre contract closely to identify any termination penalties or obligations that need addressing.
SLA Review
Review through your service level agreements (SLAs) at both your current and future data centres. Make updates before migration as needed to meet any new requirements.
Secure Data
Protecting your data before and during the migration is essential. You need to have robust security measures in place to protect your data during and after, particularly adhering to any legal or compliance standards.
Cost Evaluation
Ask yourself ‘How much will the migration cost?’ Clearly assessing the financial implications is crucial. You should focus on reusing existing setups to save costs and consider other expenses such as staffing and emergency measures.
Role Assignment
Ask yourself ‘Who’s Responsible For What?’ Assemble a team of key personnel from various departments to handle the migration. This team will oversee the migration process, make key decisions, and utilise necessary resources.
Post-Migration Support: Ensuring Continuous Operational Excellence
After the migration is complete, the work of IP House Colocation Data Centre really begins. The extensive post-migration support provided by IP House includes everything from technical assistance through to optimisation services. These are all aimed at ensuring you achieve and maintain peak performance in your new colocation environment.
Giving You Back Control
The ultimate goal of migrating your data to IP House is to give you greater control over your data as well as other added benefits. In addition, you still manage the technical aspects of your network performance as you did before.
IP House handles the physical management of connectivity and hardware, freeing you up from these tasks. But as a company, you will still be in charge of your applications. Also, moving to a colocation data centre gives you access to our enhanced support team with certified experts available 24/7 all year round. Our experts provide on-demand support, from equipment swaps and troubleshooting to handling logistics within the data centre. This means you acquire operational efficiency and economic savings by using shared resources with multiple clients.
But that's not all!, unlike many Coloc providers, IP House goes much further, often without any additional costs to the end client:
As an example:
- Migration planning
- Application analysis
- Infrastructure review and health assessments
- Scope validation
- Delivery schedule
- Hands on rack and stacking
- Cable management
- Performance testing and optimisation
The Future For Colocation Migration
Gartner predicted in 2019 that by 2025, 80% of companies would have moved over to colocation,
“Gartner predicts that by 2025, 80% of enterprises will shut down their traditional data centers. In fact, 10% of organizations already have.”
Source: Gartner 2019
Regardless of whether that prediction is realised, more and more businesses understand the strategic advantage of migration to colocation services. The IP House way allows you to maintain control while still optimising your data centre operations free of fear and stress!
Contact us today about migrating your data to IP House!
Sources:
- https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/the-data-center-is-almost-dead
- https://www.techtarget.com/searchdatacenter/tip/Guide-to-data-center-migration-types
- https://www.nextdc.com/blog/data-centre-migration-best-practice-strategies
- https://dgtlinfra.com/data-center-migration/
- https://teamsilverback.com/top-three-concerns-when-migrating-from-on-prem-to-a-colocation-data-center/
