Five tips to a successful IT Relocation
Most company executives are new to the moving or relocation process, let alone the IT relocation process. Here are some tips to ease the pain —based on our industry knowledge and practical experience. Moving is a real opportunity to set up your new office exactly as you want it and to take advantage of new technologies. We look at a series of business decisions that need to be made, including Disaster Recovery options.
Disaster Recovery Options
Write a DR plan specific to your IT relocation. If you think of relocation as a managed disaster recovery event during which the IT environment will be reestablished at a different location, a disaster recovery plan is critical to the success of the project. A thorough DR plan provides key information about the infrastructure and the business, the criticality of applications and data, and the mechanisms to mitigate risk.
If you are keeping your core systems at head office consider a redundant disaster recovery site in co-location. Rack space in co-location connected to every branch is the ideal place to have your DR gear set up. These days you can even perform continuous replication to keep it up to date with live data.
A co-location protects your business and enables your employees to work remotely in the event of an outage at your office. In addition, colocating in a data centre can help keep satellite offices online even if your head office is inaccessible.
Please email us if you would like us to identify your IT relocation goals and help you get to that “better place” with your IT investment.