Some key questions we can help you answer include: 

• How large a server-room / data center should you build in the new facility? What are the benefits of or opportunity to collocate systems at an outsourced data center?

• What is the difference between building an IT environment in a high-rise building and a suburban campus?

• What contingencies do I need to design into the IT Infrastructure in a multi-tenant building?

• How do you maximize the infrastructure Redundancies and Diversities to maximize the environment’s availability and to minimize the risk?

• How long should the systems be kept running on backup power? 

• What sort of Power and Cooling infrastructure do you need to install to ensure systems availability?  How do you ensure that all power and cooling systems provide sufficient diversity and redundancy? 

• How does an eventual migration to higher density Blade servers impact the power and heat density within the datacenter?

• How can the efficiency of the cooling environment be optimized?

• How can the data center be modularized to support growth in a more cost effective fashion?

• What changes should be considered in architecting a new Wide Area Network to service the new facility? 

• How do you manage current network connectivity contracts in place? What provisions need to be made to accommodate installing new communications circuits in the new facility?  How can the extra cost be minimized?

• How do you swing the Wide Area Networks from the current facility to the new facility?

• How do I move the company telephone numbers to the new facility?  How do I move them in a multi-phase move?  How do I do this when moving between Telco vendors?

• Should you consider migrating the telephone systems to Voice over IP technology?  What are the driving benefits, the risks of migrating or not migrating, the impact on the move?  How do you mitigate the risks and provide the internal knowledge necessary migrate successfully? What are the organizational implications of such a migration?  Will the Voice and data co-exist on the same network?

• How will we manage 911 emergency telephone calls during a power failure with or without a backup generator?

• How will the deployment of new network technology impact the types of traffic flowing across the networks and the tools your company needs to provide to manage it

• Do changes to the internal technical infrastructure drive changes to the tools that are currently installed to manage the current infrastructure?

• How will the migration to the new facility and a new technical environment impact my Disaster Recovery Plans?

• Are there opportunities for consolidation or transformation (standardization) that can be / should be leveraged during the migration?

• What are the various methods of migrating data between facilities?

• How will I move my SAN? (Data)

• How will I move my SAN? (Physical racks)