(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- With the advances in data storage and management reported daily, many companies are weighing their IT options, ranging from construction of their own data center to some form of outsourcing, however, the difficulties of migrating from an old environment to a new one is a heavy burden for many firms. To help them meet this challenge, Liberty Center One (www.libertycenterone.com), one of Michigan's newest state-of-the-art data centers, is offering free consultation related to data center and server migration.
According to its Wednesday announcement, Liberty has successfully migrated hundreds of customers from data centers across the US, gaining experience in identifying reasons to relocate servers or a data center, developing specifications, choosing a data center, the key steps in migration, and the advantages and disadvantages of taking a DIY approach.
"Our focus on providing 100% uptime extends to our expertise in data migration," Liberty Center One general manager Tim Mullahy said in a statement. "We understand the pressure on IT staffs to perform data migrations without interrupting normal operations and with no loss of information in the process. Through the process of performing hundreds of migrations over the past 18 months, we've created an expertise in making data migration easy."
One of Liberty's recent successes was the migration of the social networking portal, PlanitJewish.com (www.planitjewish.com), from San Jose, California to Liberty's Michigan data center.
"Our servers were in a California data center for years but we were facing a 25 percent price increase and needed a more modern solution," PlanitJewish.com chief executive officer Howard Brown said in a statement. "Moving to Liberty Center One helped us keep our hosting costs contained and their migration of our systems from California to Michigan went flawlessly with no downtime. We are pleased to have our systems and servers in a disaster-free location in a state-of-the-art data center plus we will save tens of thousands of dollars on our IT over the coming years thanks to Liberty Center One."
Liberty Center One president and CEO Rex Smith said the PlanitJewish.com migration was one of a number of interesting challenges, with many of them coming in from out of state. "We've moved clients from Florida, Texas, Nevada, California, Virginia and Canada with as few as a single u server to multiple racks of servers," Smith said in a statement. "Michigan is a great environment for data centers as we have few if any natural disasters and an abundance of IT talent. We are pleased to do our part as a magnet for high-tech business to move to our state."
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