Data Center Strategy - Source / Cloud / Design / Build / Relocate
Many businesses today choose to source their technology to a third party, under the premise that IT should be designed and operated by “experts” – thus allowing the business to focus on their own products, services and operations. However, other businesses choose to own and operate their data centers, acknowledging that IT technology can have a direct impact upon the production or operation of their business. As a result, data centers should be under their control.
Management Partners has over 30 years of experience in designing, building, or relocating data centers. Often preceded by an IT Assessment, we evaluate and present options to address the following areas when a client is considering a data center design, build, or relocation:
Review and Develop a Data Center Strategy
Many businesses today choose to source their technology to a third party, under the premise that IT should be designed and operated by “experts” – thus allowing the business to focus on their own products, services and operations. However, other businesses choose to own and operate their data centers, acknowledging that IT technology can have a direct impact upon the production or operation of their business. As a result, data centers should be under their control.
Management Partners has over 30 years of experience in designing, building, or relocating data centers. Often preceded by an IT Assessment, we evaluate and present options to address the following areas when a client is considering a data center design, build, or relocation:
Review and Develop a Data Center Strategy
- Align with business strategy
- Review any current contracts with third parties
- Address production and operation concerns and exposures
- Identify current data center risks, gaps and opportunities
- Address redundancy and geo-diverse Disaster Recovery (DR) site options
- Identify Cloud based opportunities with hyperscale computing (fast provisioning)
- Develop a Data Center Strategy Plan that can support: Current and future business growth - Provide agile, demand based infrastructure environments to support business initiatives
- Site location
- Facility requirements and Tier level
- Architect, builder, and specialty sub-contractors for data centers
- Contract negotiations
- Commercial construction program management
- Identify scope, risks and opportunities related to the relocation
- Develop detailed Migration Plan and Schedule by application, that includes all dependencies, and minimizes business impact
- Develop financial plan that address all associated costs
- Relocation program execution including applicable reporting and dashboards
