How to Migrate the Data Center to Another Provider
For the past ten years, more and more companies of all sizes have figured out that it is much cheaper to outsource website hosting and the entire data center to a provider such as Digital Realty- Data Center Solutions. They can do the job a lot cheaper than a company doing it alone. The economy of scale that comes from managing hundreds or thousands of clients cannot be matched by even the largest companies without spending a lot more money. For example, the bandwidth available is a lot higher with an outsourced data center since it is shared. A company trying to do that on their own will spend a lot of extra money for bandwidth that’s unused 99% of the time.
One of the first things to do in order to outsource the data center is to plan the migration. It may be very helpful to consider the project management services of a data center provider such as Digital Realty- Data Center Solutions since they have had lots of previous experience with customers making a large move. There will be a lot of time and effort spent in planning a migration. This is especially true when the downtime has to be minimized to the maximum extent possible. However, it is possible to have no downtime at all with extra planning and hardware.
Once the migration has been completed, make sure that the agreement with providers such as Digital Realty- Data Center Solutions has everything needed for the near future. For example, there will be a set amount of network bandwidth that is included by default in the contract. If the usage increases beyond that set amount, the price of going over can be very high. Also another thing to look at is the service level agreement (SLA). Make sure it is acceptable to the business.
Overall, the pain of moving to an outsourced data center provider such as Digital Realty- Data Center Solutions can be significant, but the rewards are almost always worth it since the costs will be a lot lower. The best part is that the migration only needs to be performed once. After that, nothing else needs to be done to collect the savings every month.
