Frame is able to provide project superintendence of your data centre construction, including project management, risk management and relocation coordination.

We’re used to working across the various management domains, technologies and vendors involved. We can manage subcontractors and work with the trades and professions onsite as part of a multi-disciplined project team.

What’s more, we’re able to commission and relocate to new facilities while maintaining full operation of legacy infrastructure.

Frame’s implementation teams include specialists to install your ICT infrastructure and provide as-built documentation. Otherwise, we’re able to provide onsite coordination and supervision of the installers you’ve selected.

When relocating you from an existing to a new facility, Frame’s migration services cover items in your current data centre, and can extend to items outside of it. This includes servers, storage, tape libraries, SAN fabric, data, virtual environments and networking equipment.

As part of planning a migration, we:

• audit the ICT infrastructure and services to be migrated
• review your configuration and operations documentation, as well as any existing migration plan, to understand the physical and logical interdependencies
• engage with key stakeholders to develop the migration options, key metrics, recommendations and a migration roadmap.

Then Frame can manage the migration and decommission the redundant infrastructure.

In the data centre, transition involves changing the way ICT services are delivered. The transition could be to a different platform hosted in-house, to a cloud service such as IaaS or SaaS, or to managed services sourced from a co-location provider.

Either way, it involves organisation-level change because your ICT operations policies, processes and practices are affected by the transition.

This makes transition planning integral to data centre services, especially when it includes a migration. It requires a prescribed, mature approach and planning methodology to ensure the transition meets the requirements and delivers the benefits you expect.

So you can depend on Frame’s transition planning to:

• engage with key stakeholders to develop the transition options, key metrics, recommendations and a transition roadmap
• review your policies, processes and practices, and map them to the new model for delivering your ICT services
• develop the transition process, determine an appropriate transition period, and synchronise it with the migration.

Then Frame can manage the transition and revise your policy, process and practice documentation.