From a client perspective, a migration, or relocation project requires client side assurance and risk management to ensure the business is operational before, during and after any relocation work. Migration Solutions' staff have experience in ensuring that the planned project activities are effectively communicated to the business stakeholders. The teams will audit the facility and build a database which is handed over to the client on completion of the project to provide a valuable tool in managing the data centre or computer room assets. The team is fully conversant with the activities involved in technical planning, capacity management, plan testing, change management actions, staff and contractor supervision and planned outage management. The Migration Solutions ‘Passport Scheme' includes the following project actions:-
- Business impact assessment
- Business requirements planning
- Development and refinement of the relocation strategy and plan
- Site readiness
- Communications in place and tested
- Documenting the interdependencies of applications
- Documenting the interdependencies of hardware
- Improved back-up schedule
- Investigating the feasibility of transfer
- Plan the relocation move and back-out plan
- Managing the change control process
- Notify the business of the Request for Change
- Business (Change Approval Board) agreement and sign off
- Manage the Forward Schedule of Change
- Complete change
- Record the Change and update the plan
- Carry out the relocation
- Execute the approved test plan
- Obtain sign off