Service detail
Are you expecting to expand or reduce the number of data centres in your enterprise requiring a migration of applications and IT equipment? Is the availability of your applications a major concern? IBM IT Facilities Consolidation and Relocation Services – data centre consolidation and relocation can help you successfully migrate your applications, data, IT and infrastructure equipment to meet your unique application availability requirements while maintaining specific product warranty certifications.
Highlights
 |  | | Plans and migrates applications, data, IT and infrastructure equipment within data centres or from one data centre to another |
| | | Meets application availability requirements and avoids unplanned outages during the relocation |
| | | Maintains product warranty certifications |
| | | Leverages IBM experience for a reliable relocation with reduced risks |
| | | Offers expertise with complex IT environments to improve the success of complicated migrations |
Helping minimise the complexity and risks associated with data centre relocations
Demand for information technology continues to grow significantly this decade with server shipments expected to grow six times and storage shipments over sixty-nine times. This is driving a need for data centre expansion as well as continued data centre consolidations. Over 50 percent of organisations will expand or contract their number of data centres in the next three years, requiring a migration of applications and IT equipment.
The average revenue cost of an unplanned application outage is estimated to be up to US$2.8 million per hour with 36 percent of interviewed organisations being able to tolerate less than one hour of downtime before experiencing significant revenue loss. This makes maintaining application availability the central challenge in consolidating and relocating data centres.
A detailed, systematic approach and effective backup plans in case of emergencies-such as what you will do if your IT equipment is delayed or damaged in transit-are essential to any successful migration project. To cope with these challenges, organisations need expert help to facilitate a successful relocation, avoid unplanned application downtime and return to normal operations as quickly as possible.
IBM IT Facilities Consolidation and Relocation Services - data centre consolidation and relocation leverages IBM's extensive experience and methodology to help you migrate applications, data, IT and infrastructure equipment within data centres or from one data centre to another while helping maintain your application availability requirements and product warranty certifications. This allows you to reduce the project risk through managing complexity, maintain project cost and schedule while meeting your application availability needs.
