Data Center Migrations & Migration Project Expertise

When preparing for your next Data Center Migration project, you may feel overwhelmed by concerns about budgets, scope creep, minimizing downtime, ensuring data security, and managing timelines. Successful IT managers often seek assistance from experienced Data Center Migration project partners. However, IT infrastructure transition strategies that rely on the “lowest bidder” service providers often encounter shortcuts, misaligned plans, change orders, chaos, and sleepless nights for you and your colleagues. In contrast, a successful and predictable Data Center Migration experience includes carefully planned and detailed migration methodologies. These should be executed by proven subject matter experts with success across multiple industry verticals, global reach (sometimes remote), experience managing aggressive timelines, and the IT infrastructure management expertise to effectively communicate across multi-discipline teams and levels of management.

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 Relocations, 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 Migrations – Service Summary

Discovery, Planning, and Execution are complex and detailed stages of any Data Center Migration project. While these stages focus on defined outcomes, they must also provide the flexibility required to account for the unique challenges of every organization. During the Discovery stage, deployed solutions may include electronic discovery, on-site hardware audits, and software stack analysis to uncover assets hidden behind DMZs or identify unused systems. In the Planning stage, migration experts work with you to capture software and hardware interdependencies and develop move groups using their proprietary SkyCommand tool. SkyCommand, the company’s self-built Data Center Migration project planning tool, combined with the expertise of program leaders, helps identify the appropriate migration method (physical, logical, or cloud). During the Execution stage, every step is tracked within SkyCommand and witnessed by the client via secure login. Data Center Migration experts can also provide a Cloud Assessment to determine the best cloud service for each application. Experienced data center hardware engineers (L1-L3) handle all physical activities, while application and cloud transition experts manage the virtual or non-physical stages of your Data Center Migration project.

Data Center Migrations – Service Features

  • Managed by seasoned experts, using experience-honed methodologies and proprietary tools like SkyCommand™

  • The proprietary SkyCommand™ tool captures inter-dependency data, helps determine move groups, tracks schedules and timing statuses, outlines project stages and steps, and provides client transparency to simplify reporting to upper management

  • 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

  • Discovery Stage: balances information requirements with client availability, often involving three phases (physical, logical, and client validation), and may include on-site audits

  • Application inter-dependency mapping, move group method identification, and planning

  • Application management and cloud transitions are always managed by Subject Matter Experts

  • For physical moves, hardware inventory is handled by experienced L1-L3 infrastructure engineers

  • Expertise in secure logistics, multi-country customs management, and chain of custody

  • Willing to provide a la carte services for migrations where primary vendors are already selected

Data Center Migration Projects – Service Benefits

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

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

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

  • An “as needed” or “a la carte” service offering to provide assistance where, when and how your team may require

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

Contact Cumulus Solutions Group’s Data Center Migrations Project Experts

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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 Migrations solutions from Discovery through Planning and Execution, wherever your facilities are located.”

 

What are Data Center Migrations?

Data Center Migrations include the both the logical and physical movement of IT hardware systems (servers, storage and networking), applications and miscellaneous infrastructure from one operating (production or disaster recovery) site to another location. Destinations may include a private cloud environment, a shared (colocation) facility, a different corporate office location, or an entirely new data center environment. Mergers & Acquisitions often trigger the decision to conduct Data Center Migrations. In other instances, strategic decisions for cost containment may drive a data center consolidation, which in turn often necessitates one or more Data Center Migration Projects. Every Data Center Migration Project involves significant planning (with contingencies) and coordination between multiple teams such as server admins, storage admins, networking admins, IT security, application management, application development and IT operations management. 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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