Maximize business outcomes for your data center relocation
Relocating infrastructure assets comes with looming deadlines to resume normal operations — especially when consolidating floor space or making a facilities move. But it also presents an opportunity to make other changes in your program. Each additional change can provide benefits; however, it could stretch budgets, complicate work and put timelines at risk. Read the full paper, "Maximize Business Outcomes for Your Data Center Relocation," to learn how reduce ensure your success and reduce risks.
You must establish the fundamental outcomes for a data center relocation, understanding what valuable technology refreshes are needed now and which updates you can defer. Work must be segmented into manageable pieces to create a roadmap that includes a data center exit and beyond. For example, you must determine how to maintain current operations and contribute to the new project. You’ll need to work in new ways with multiple partners to meet deadlines and to identify the type of leadership needed.
Reconsider the typical assets involved to include application assets. These should be considered with server assets to help avoid business process interruptions. When migrating or transforming applications, there are several treatments to apply: Re-Host, Upgrade, Re-Factor, Replace, Re-Architect or Retire.
In typical organizations, the majority — 60 percent to 80 percent — of applications and their related infrastructure can be relocated as infrastructure-led workload migrations rather than more complex transformations. The challenge becomes balancing transformation needs with agility and growth objectives.
It’s also important to consider application transformation because there are tactical and strategic options. Your IT team’s challenge is to be stable, yet provide innovative business support.
Understanding the complexity, risk and costs for each step enables better alignment for business outcomes with your available budget and timeline. Thinking through and overcoming challenges require you to adopt new approaches.
Find out how to:
- Rethink your strategy, maximize your investments and gain business value
- Adopt a suitable program framework
- Identify sources of value
- Recognize complications from business innovation
Read the fulll paper to learn more about data center relocation.