Top 10: Data Centre Migration Companies
Data centre migration is the process of moving data and applications from one physical or virtual environment to another. This can be incredibly complex, but vitally important for operators to keep up with evolving technology and customer demands.
Migration is often mission-critical for businesses and can lead to cost savings, improved efficiency and better security and scalability.
With this in mind – and in association with Henkel – Data Centre Magazine looks at some of the leading migration companies in the data centre industry. These companies are committed to supporting data centre innovators to ensure successful progress and digital transformation.
10. Technimove
Headquarters: US
CEO: Ochea Ikpa
Founded: 1998
Technimove delivers professional services and data centre migration solutions. This encompasses discovery and analysis, consolidation, cabling, migration, implementation, project management and support.
It is one of the world leaders in physical data centre relocation, with its migration services improving operational efficiency, minimising downtime and reducing costs while safeguarding business continuity.
The service relocates server, storage and networking equipment, typically moving IBM, HPE, Dell, NettApp, Pure, Cisco, Fortinet and Paolo Alto equipment. It often delivers 100s of projects simultaneously and offers solutions to help with legacy systems, data losses and regulatory compliance challenges.
9. OneWorld Logix
Headquarters: India
CEO: Nathaniel (Nat) Pieper
Founded: 2020
OneWorld Logix offers a broad range of migration services, including lift and shift to ensure smooth relocations and custom cloud migration strategies for moving applications and building a secure cloud.
The company says its committed to helping its clients reach their goals by personalising their event experiences and providing an innovative environment. Its comprehensive relocation services also include packing, transport and setup of IT equipment.
8. JK Moving Services
Headquarters: US
CEO: Chuck Kuhn
Founded: 1982
Since being founded by 16 year old Chuck Kuhn in his parent’s basement in 1982, JK Moving Services has grown to become one of the largest independent moving companies in North America. Having made more than half a million moves, the company has won plenty of industry awards that recognise its people and services.
It offers data centre support services that support infrastructure design, precise logistics handling and resource management optimisation to ensure its clients experience consistent performance. JK Moving Services also prides itself on standing at the intersection of efficiency and innovation.
7. Sunspeed
Headquarters: UK
CEO: Richard Sachen
Founded: 1998
Sunspeed are established relocation specialists with more than 30 years of experience in secure data centre and server relocation. It has a team of highly experienced IT engineers, its own fleet of computer-spec vehicles and a dedicated relocation project management team.
The company prides itself on its tried and tested process for carrying out relocations for all types of IT equipment, ranging across data centres, communications rooms and edge locations.
6. Macquarie Data Centres
Headquarters: Australia
CEO: David Hirst
Founded: 1992
Offering the confidence of a 100% uptime guarantee, Macquarie Data Centres prides itself on its data centres providing the highest levels of security, sovereignty, service and compliance for a company’s valuable data.
The company offers comprehensive tailor-made services aligned to the needs of Australian government agencies. Consisting of a team of consultants, architects, project engineers and project management professionals, it is a specialist in securing Australian government data.
It has the ability to deliver design, commission and migration in the data centre to ensure its infrastructure is under appropriate information security or data sovereignty controls.
5. Equinix
Headquarters: US
CEO: Adaire Fox-Martin
Founded: 1998
Equinix offers data centre migration services to help businesses move their IT infrastructure to their colocation facilities, prioritising a streamlined and efficient transition. The company offers expertise and support throughout the entire migration process, from planning to execution, whilst minimising disruption.
The company also supports companies who wish to move to Equinix data centres as an opportunity to minimise their carbon emissions and overall environmental impact. Given that its facilities are colocation, rather than on-premise, its workloads are covered by 100% clean energy.
4. Schneider Electric
Headquarters: France
CEO: Olivier Blum
Founded: 1836
Schneider Electric offers businesses modernisation and proactive maintenance services, with its consultants to help the process of upgrading and optimising data centre infrastructure and operations.
Its services are some of the most renowned in the world and often improve efficiency, scalability and performance across the data centre industry. This involves adopting new technologies, such as cloud computing, virtualisation, automation, decarbonisation processes and enhanced cybersecurity and data privacy measures.
Likewise, its EcoCare for Data Centres helps to optimise operations and maintenance. It also offers services EcoConsult and EcoFit.
3. NTT Data
Headquarters: Japan
CEO: Abhijit Dubey
Founded: 1998
NTT Data helps its clients build a secure cloud foundation on any public cloud in just five days. The company says it can support clients to migrate applications 30% faster and save up to 50% in costs.
The company configures and deploys a landing zone on a public cloud in five days, alongside the right training, documentation and knowledge transfer to help your team maintain and secure it long term.
In the last two years alone, NTT Data has migrated 19K+ applications for 2,600+ clients in a wide range of industries including government, finance, manufacturing and commercial sectors.
2. Microsoft
Headquarters: US
CEO: Satya Nadella
Founded: 1975
Microsoft offers the Azure Migrate service that provides a simplified migration, modernisation and optimisation service for customers who want to migrate their on-premises workloads to Azure.
It offers a one-stop solution for migrating your infrastructure, data and web application workloads, with the virtual appliance available to be deployed on a data centre server. The appliance collects the configuration and performance data for your servers and continually sends it to the Azure Migrate service. Microsoft also offers detailed services for executing a migration strategy.
1. AWS
Headquarters: US
CEO: Matt Garman
Founded: 2002
AWS Application Migration Service simplifies, expedites and reduces the cost of migrating and modernising applications. It is a recommended service for businesses wishing to migrate to AWS, with the tool automatically converting source servers from physical, virtual or cloud infrastructure to run natively on AWS.
Users can engage with the tool to quickly migrate applications to the cloud during a short cutover window, typically measured in minutes. AWS Application Migration Service can also be used to automate application modernisations on your migrated servers.
Disclosure: This article was produced in partnership with Henkel. The editorial content was independently developed by the Data Centre Magazine team.
