Data Center Migrations & Migration Project Expertise

While preparing for your next Data Center Migration Project, concerns about budgets, scope creep, minimizing downtime, ensuring data security and managing timelines, may seem overwhelming. Successful IT managers turn to experienced Data Center Migration project partners for assistance. However, IT infrastructure transition strategies that rely on the “lowest bidder service providers” are chock-full of shortcuts, misaligned plans, change orders, chaos, and sleepless nights for you and your colleagues. In contrast, a successful and predictable Data Center Migrations experience will include carefully planned and detailed migration methodologies. These should be Executed by proven subject matter experts having success across multiple industry verticals, with global (sometimes remote) ability/reach, experience managing to aggressive timelines and having the IT infrastructure management experience 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 & Execution are complex and detailed stages of any Data Center Migration Project. While these stages are focused on defined outcomes, they must provide the flexibility required to account for the challenges unique to every organization. During the Discovery stage, deployed solutions may include electronic discovery. On-site audits of hardware and analyzing software stacks may help find assets hidden behind DMZs or systems that are not in use. In Planning, migrations experts work with you to capture the software and hardware inter-dependencies and develop move groups, using its SkyCommand tool. SkyCommand is the company’s own, self-built, proprietary Data Center Migration Project planning tool. When combined with its program leaders’ expertise, this tool helps to identify the 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 Migrations experts can also provide a Cloud Assessment, helping to determine which applications are best moved to which cloud service. Experienced data center hardware engineers (L1-L3) are provided for all physical activities, while application and cloud transition experts are assigned to 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 (e.g. SkyCommand)

  • The Proprietary SkyCommandᵀᴹ tool captures inter-dependency data, helps to determine move groups, captures schedules/timing statuses and project stages/steps, 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 three-phased (physical, logical and client validation), may include onsite 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, chain of custody

  • Willing to provide a la carte services for migrations within which 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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