A large IT services MSP had grown via acquisition, resulting in data centre footprints spanning 7 facilities across the UK. To realise synergy savings, a plan was devised to close 5 of these data centres and consolidate down to just 2 strategic facilities in London and Birmingham resulting in an annual operating saving of £2.5M.

• Devise the consolidation strategy
• Present the business plan
• Design the solution
• Build the delivery team
• Project manage the execution
• Maintain Stakeholder Communications

• Produce Business Case including Capital Investment and Opex Saving, Produce Project Plan and Secure CEO / COO approval to Execute Plan
• Build Team of Architects, Operations Engineers and Project Managers
• Built new SD-WAN to connect the 7 sites and facilitate virtualised workload migration between facilities
• Build two new VMWare Private Cloud Facilities with capacity for 500 virtual servers in each of the target, end state Data Centres
• Liaise with Clients on Relocation of Colocated Equipment
• Retain & Manage Data Centre Equipment  Relocation Vendor
• Coordinate Migration of Network, Physical Equipment and Virtualise Workloads between Facilities

The plan was successfully delivered over a period of 18 months, with the migration and closure of five data centres into two regionally diverse facilities

• data center
• Implementation Planning
• IT Transformation
• It Strategy
• Large Projects
• Project Management

• Process Effectiveness & Automation

• Technology