Data Center

STARiT has unmatched expertise in the design, integration and implementation of data center solutions for enterprise organizations. STARiT delivers high-performance compute, storage, data protection and virtualization solutions with the capacity and reliability to meet mission-critical requirements.

What's more, STARiT helps increase business agility through flexible and scalable solutions that readily adapt to changing demands. We are uniquely qualified to deliver converged infrastructure solutions that enable rapid deployment of data center resources for accelerated application and service rollout. We are also on the forefront of the “software-defined” vision of resource pooling, automation and policy-based management across the data center infrastructure.

Together, these solutions enable our customers to meet key business and IT requirements, including:

• Improved resource utilization
• Optimized operations
• End-to-end security and data protection
• Regulatory compliance
• Streamlined management
• Capacity on demand

Our data center solutions combine the knowledge and experience of our engineers with powerful assessment tools and cutting-edge products from leading manufacturers. We help customers reduce operational and energy costs, minimize complexity, and maximize the value of their IT investments.

What’s the biggest challenge when relocating a data center? For most IT executives, a major data center transformation is a once or twice a decade event. For many their most pressing question is:

“What should I be asking now?”

Many organizations successfully move data centers without external assistance, while many turn to outside experts like STARiT to accelerate the project, reduce risk and avoid overloading internal resources. Still others engage a partner for specific pieces of the project. Regardless of where you are on the continuum, STARiT can help.

STARiT has successfully relocated hundreds of data centers across North America and the world. Through these many migration and consolidation projects STARiT has recognized that there are 3 key elements to every successful relocation:

• An accurate inventory of all applications, servers, storage and other assets involved
• A thorough understanding of asset interdependencies
• A perfect “runbook” — the minute-by-minute move-day plan for all migration activities

To execute these complex projects, STARiT has created a 4 stage methodology, backed by the industry’s premier data center migration solution, STARiT DataCenterMigration™(DCM).

Relocation, Migration, Consolidation

Traditionally, a data center “Relocation” primarily involved physically moving racks of equipment from one location to another. Over the last several years, however, the IT computing landscape has changed, and today’s “virtual” data centers typically include a broad range of physically hosted, virtualized, SaaS and cloud-deployed applications. Many IT professionals refer to the relocation of applications from physical servers to virtual instances (either internally managed with technology like VMware, or deployed into the cloud), or from one virtual/cloud location to another, as a “Migration.”

A smooth, trouble free, transformation of any or all of these environments is best archived through rigorous planning and disciplined relocation project management. STARiT has extensive experience in all of these environments, across hundreds of move events.

Relocation Tools

Based on over a decade of data center relocation, migration and consolidation experience, STARiT has created the industry’s premier data center migration solution. DCM was built specifically to implement a complete set of best practices for planning and managing all aspects of both physical and virtual data center migrations. By providing all parties with real-time visibility into all relocation activities, STARiT DCM communications and collaboration across the team and accelerates migrations while also reducing the risk of unplanned outages.

DCM has been proven to shorten project elapsed times by 50%, double staff utilization efficiency and virtually eliminate sequence and dependency errors.