DCMI has announced a new service which it claims will make it easier to carry out data center migration. DCMI Migrata is a proprietary data centre migration manager tool. Migrata functions as the single point of information for the entire project.
According to DCMI, Migrata delivers significant benefits over 'pen and paper' style migration management processes, and is substantially more advanced than using a set of Excel spreadsheets. It is claimed that its service and software combination can save companies up to 60 percent of the time and up to 40 percent of the effort that it takes to consolidate or migrate a data center from one facility to another.
As the trend towards consolidation continues, data center migration is likely to be an increasing requirement for enterprises, according to Aaron Davis at data center infrastructure vendor APC. "There's a lot of it about," said DCMI CEO and founder Martin Williams. "Five or six of our customers are doing this and BP is in the process of consolidating 170 data centers globally down to three,' a TechWorld article reports.
According to DCMI, its system handles the whole process. It examines the existing setup from the power sockets to the business functions underway, and produces a list of tasks that need to be performed, from reconfiguring routers to ensuring there's enough space reserved on a rack for a particular server. The longest list produced so far was about 30,000 items long, said Williams.
Its customers are said to include big telcos and financial services companies - although the company was unable to divulge the names of any of them. DCMI also claimed uniqueness. "DCMI is the only data centre migration software and methodology available", said Williams. "DCMI's tools and services are specifically geared to assist with large-scale, planned migration and consolidation projects."
DCMI has also announced a relationship with Unisys, which will resell DCMI's technology. The deal will allow Unisys access to DCMI's technology, methodologies and experience in reducing the workload, risk and cost of data center migration. It will initially cover the UK, with potential to become a global agreement.