— DESIGN & TRANSITION —

Reduce Migration Risks While Improving Efficiency

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Get expert assessment and design assistance to ease your IT transformation.

We all recognize the need for IT to transform and change, but planning and implementing the right change at the right time without disrupting your own business is a challenge. Our team of expert transition consultants specializes in designing and transitioning your IT environment to an optimized and agile architecture. Our consultants leverage industry best-practices to provide design and transition services for some of your most challenging IT transformations.

Minimize production issues and reduce downtime with proven best practices
Manage cost and budget pressures. Choose from flexible cost models tailored to your business needs.
Future-proof your IT. Address future expansion and transformation needs with support from our hybrid IT environment experts.
Bridge resource and skills gaps. You don’t have to know everything. Tap into our expertise for transition and migration.

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OVERVIEW
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Design & Transition Services

Achieve all your IT goals with enterprise-class tools and methodologies.

With CenturyLink, you get design and transition services that aren’t available from local or more specialized consulting firms. Our capabilities include:

Assessment
Complete assessment of your applications and infrastructure to help you gain efficiency and future-proof your IT environment. Our data center experts and product offerings help you get the most from what you have.

Our automated tools and structured workshops gather information and help us work with you to address the “don’t know what I don’t know” conundrum.
Get target-state designs that leverage a variety of platforms for complex, hybrid solutions—from colocation to cloud to managed hosting—for use now or for future expansion or transformation.
Stay involved in the process with established governance models for regular reporting and mitigation of any issues that arise.
Take advantage of industry best practices in data analysis for the best consolidation and optimization results.

Migration
Minimize risk and maximize ROI with single-vendor convenience and expert knowledge.

Keep business operations up and running with less risk—our vast knowledge-base and proven processes make migration seamless.
Simplify data organization by normalizing data into specialized templates for migration planning.
Stay involved and in control of the project with regular reporting and issue mitigation.
Enjoy predictable, flexible cost models tailored to your business needs.

Bridge Resource and Skills Gaps
We have practical, hands-on experience in discovery and assessment for any IT discipline and can help you build roadmaps and recommendations and size your IT initiatives—even in complex and heterogeneous environments.

Get your own dedicated subject matter experts to assist you throughout the entire migration.
Benefit from our proven best practices, built from first-hand integration of five acquired companies.
Leverage our hands-on IT experience with thousands of certifications, including ITIL certification.
Achieve the business results you want with our knowledge transfer and adoption best practices.

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A Closer Look at Our Design and Transition Services

From design and build to structured cabling to extra hands on site, our Advanced Services help you optimize your colocation investment and transform your business.

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DETAILS
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Get Expertise and Advice to Achieve Your IT Goals

Choose from a wide range of capabilities to create the transformation your business needs.

Take advantage of advanced services for customized, hybrid technology solutions—available on premises, in a CenturyLink data center or in a third-party data center. Also available as staff augmentation or a partial or full outsource.

Assessment Services

Discovery: Application & Infrastructure

Empirical data collection through use of automated tools, inventory compilation, workshops and physical audits
Consolidation of multiple data sources for customer information
Workshop sessions with customer subject matter experts

Analysis: Baseline Inventory

Data normalization for application, database and dependency information
Infrastructure correlation for compute, storage and network and security
Considerations for optimization and consolidation
Assessment of physical environmental needs

Design: Target State

Logical design documentation for compute, storage and network and security
Designs for physical and colocation power, space and cooling
Firewall and load balancer translation guide
Configuration documentation for infrastructure to be implemented (for CenturyLink-only designs)

Design: Migration

Migration strategy documentation for application classifications
Application grouping schedule based on dependency and business requirements
Integration across all teams and domains, facilitated by experienced technical leads
Milestone project plans to frame-up the execution

Migration Services

Build: Core Infrastructure (for CenturyLink data centers only)

Custom and complex design implementation management
Order processing per migration plan
Network implementation
Connectivity validation
Server stand-up
User access setup
Storage allocation
Application of documented configurations
Preparation for application migrations

Plan: Technical Detailing

Task-level application migration planning
Naming of resource assignments to tasks
Documentation of timing and dependencies for technical actions
Creation of detailed project plan

Migrate: Over-the-Wire

Hands-on keyboard for greenfield and logical installs (web, applications, database)
Server-based migration transfers (V2V, P2V, P2P)
Database export and import
Deployment of firewall and load balancer rules
Data migrations (replication, sync, file transfers, portable storage)
Testing and validation
Go-live and cutover

Migrate: Equipment Relocation