Data Center Consulting

Advocate Networks can provide technical expertise and market intelligence advice for data center implementation, relocation, consolidation, and collocation services. We have a broad base of technical and operational expertise in data center planning, site selection, physical security, data center infrastructure cost estimation, contract negotiations, implementation and consolidation.

Our consultants are experienced with data center implementations across North America, Europe, and Asia. Our focus is balanced across the goals of the Business, cost effectiveness, and technical excellence in support of stability, security, and value to your Customers.

• Data Center Strategy: We assist in clarifying requirements, identifying data center Tier level targets, creating cost/benefit, ROI and TCO estimates, and creation of data center plan and roadmap aligned with the strategic goals of the business.
• Data Center Design: In the Design Phase we assess buy/build options, author RFP’s, and identify collocation, engineering and construction partners.
• Data Center Transition: We assist with the steps necessary to implement the Data Center plan including contract negotiation, project management, relocation of data processing services, and consolidation of IT assets.
• Data Center Operation: Toward continual improvement of operations, we assess current state against contemporary best practices, benchmark against industry standards, and develop an executable gap analysis to improve and align service delivery with the needs of the Business. We also deliver Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery Planning services, and can integrate BC/DR requirements into the enterprise data center plan.

Our valued Clients include firms with a few hundred square feet of data processing equipment desiring to improve stability and security to position their company for rapid growth, as well as multi-national firms with multiple data centers across the globe consolidating to improve the efficiency of IT Operations.