Data Center Move & Data Center Relocation Expertise

Many IT managers see a Data Center Move as simply putting equipment on a rental truck and unloading it at the other end. Anybody can do that, right? In reality, a successful Data Center Relocation is a carefully orchestrated event involving teams of logistics experts, packers, engineering teams, application owners and project managers. Each step must be carefully controlled and communication is vital. When your organization’s infrastructure is on a truck and all eyes are on you, the difference between hero and goat is often the partner you chose to execute the data center relocation. The careful selection of a provider for your next Data Center Relocation (or “Move”) is the foundation of your success. 

Your selection criteria need to examine multiple critical items: secure handling of data, proper system shutdown and de-installation by qualified hardware technicians. In addition, secure logistics, customs management (if required) and qualified data center hardware technicians to reinstall and power-up systems, returning them to a stable state. The provider should also have the ability to securely retire (ITAD) selected assets with properly certified downstream partners (Read More Here). Not all Data Center Move providers can effectively do what they say. No doubt, you’ve heard horror stories of servers being moved in the back of pick-up trucks, low-level techs that have crashed systems at power-up, or retired assets being sold to an uncertified downstream partner that failed to securely erase data before reselling. Your next Data Center Relocation (or simple asset move) can be seamless, without nightmare, when you select a proven partner and minimize vendor selection rooted in “lowest bidder” strategies.

Cumulus Solutions Group’s Mission

With more than 30 years of experience, Cumulus Solutions Group provides Discovery, Planning and Execution leadership for Data Center Migrations, Data Center Relocation, On-Site Data Center Services and IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) for global and US-based clients, across all industry verticals. With an emphasis on proven methodologies and proprietary tools, such as SkyCommand℠ (its client management portal), the company promises seamless IT infrastructure and IT lifecycle transitions designed to help you sleep at night.

Data Center Moves & Relocations – Service Summary

Cumulus Solutions Group subject matter experts have 30+ years’ experience managing Data Center Moves (Data Center Relocations) of all sizes and complexities. Whether your next move includes a few assets moving between floors, across town/country or globally, or its a multi-site and multi-country project spanning any length of time, the company’s principals have experienced it all. The company provides complete, end-to-end relocations, including consulting, project management, planning, de-install, secure transportation and reinstall services. The company’s service is entirely scalable from simple asset moves up to complex relocations which may require additional, as-needed support.

Any Data Center Move Statement of Work (SOW) can include services such as Data Center Site Services (i.e. Smart Hands or IMAC), secure IT Asset Disposition (including IT asset recycling/re-purposing) using R2-certified downstream partners. As Data Center Move expertise is integral during any Data Center Migration, the company principals have expertise in all aspects of your next data center transition. During Planning phases, relocation experts work with you to best manage IT assets, with inter-dependencies, to assign Data Center Move groups, using its SkyCommand tool. SkyCommand is the company’s own, self-built, proprietary Data Center Relocation planning tool. When combined with its program leaders’ expertise, this tool helps to identify move groups, method and timing. Every step is tracked within SkyCommand and can be witnessed by client via secure login. Experienced data center hardware engineers (L1-L3) are provided for all physical activities throughout any Data Center Move.

Data Center Relocation – Service Features

  • Managed by seasoned experts, using experience honed methodologies

  • End-to-end support, provided globally (in-country, country-to-country or involving multiple countries), which includes expertise in secure logistics and in-depth, multi-country customs management

  • Complete end-to-end support includes: project management, planning, mapping, deinstallation, secure pack-and-ship, reinstallation and cabling

  • Discovery stage balances information necessary with clients’ availability and needed timeline

  • Data Center Move Discovery may include onsite audits

  • Planning and Execution may include secure IT Asset Disposition (recycling/reselling) with data erasure to DOD standards

  • Ensure Data Center Move security (two drivers on every truck, GPS tracking, can hire trailing security team) and provide chain of custody management

  • Hardware inventory is handled by L1-L3 infrastructure engineers

  • Discovery, Planning & Execution stages are in-depth, detailed, with contingencies, and focused on defined and intended Data Center Move outcomes

  • The company’s SkyCommand tool captures inter-dependency data, schedules/timing statuses and project stage/steps so that any member of your team can witness project successes and provide status reporting to upper management.

Data Center Move Projects – Service Benefits

  • Dedicated project managers, designed to simplify communications and ensure accountabilities on behalf of each client

  • Globally available and multi-country experience

  • Fully insured for liability of high-value IT assets

  • Highly experienced program leadership (“been there, done that”). Be sure to check out the bios of the company principals on the About Us page

  • Chain of custody expertise with GPS shipment tracking

  • Cumulus Solutions Groups’ program experts have built a globally-deployed team of stage/task SMEs to support any Data Center Relocation to maximize efficiency, minimize risk and meet objectives – all designed to help you sleep at night

  • Secure client access to SkyCommand – feel free to ask for a demo of this proprietary tool

  • Click here for a helpful Data Center Relocation Checklist

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Message From the Principals

“Business partnerships and trust are key—that’s why when it comes to client engagement, we want to give each client the time and guidance they deserve. We are a team of IT professionals with over 30+ years of experience in all aspects of data center/infrastructure management. We are committed to leveraging our vast experiences and proven processes to help each client address their most challenging issues. Cumulus Solutions Group provides comprehensive, proven Data Center Move solutions from Discovery through Planning and Execution, wherever your facilities are located.”

What are Data Center Relocations?

A data center relocation is the physical move/relocation of your current enterprise IT hardware (servers, storage and networking) to a new location – whether a different room/floor within the current environment or a new physical address. Data Center Move project expertise will always include efficient Discovery and Planning, with highly secure Execution, using only enterprise IT hardware engineers, with the ancillary ability to conduct as-needed services and IT asset retirement (for select assets) when Discovery or Planning reveals such services are necessary. You may also click to read a recent blog post: How is a Data Center Migration Different than a Data Center Relocation?

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