Technology Upgrades and Migration Support from Logicalis
Guides You to the Infrastructure of the Future.
Need to upgrade your technology to a newer
platform? Concerned what acquisitions mean for support of your
hardware and software? Logicalis’ IBM experts can provide you with
a seamless approach to technology upgrades and systems
migration.
We have even identified simple migration steps
that can help you migrate to a new mission-critical environment
safely.
Simple Technology Migration
Steps
Logicalis developed this eight-point migration
strategy to help customers who have concerns about migration
issues.
Step 1: Decide to Make a
Change - Recognize that you need to make a change and
define your level of urgency for that change.
Step 2: Develop a Financial
Baseline - Inventory your existing equipment. Then,
determine your current investment and level of depreciation to
gauge the ROI of a new or altered infrastructure.
Step 3: Determine the Operating
Systems that Make Sense for You - Examine the applications
you are running and let Logicalis help you determine what operating
platforms you can move to that will provide the best combination of
ROI and performance.
Step 4: Take an Inventory of Your
Mission-Critical Applications – Make sure you know what’s
necessary – and what isn’t – when it’s time to migrate to a new
platform or new hardware.
Step 5: Design Your Target
Infrastructure – A smart migration plan has a goal based
on the technical aspects of the new platform, as well as the
business aspects uncovered during a thorough analysis of your
financial baseline coupled with your total cost of ownership for
new equipment.
Step 6: Build a Well-Defined Migration
Plan - Will you move all your applications at once or use
a phased approach?
Step 7: Develop a Training
Plan – Make sure your team has training to understand any
new operating system(s) and hardware so they understand how your
specific applications will run on them.
Step 8: Execute The Plans You’ve
Made - Now is the time to procure the equipment, get it on
site, and begin the physical changeover.