Complete Systems Design Information Technology Solutions

Data, web, file, database, and e-mail server migration, operating system, firewall, workstation and application migration require great planning for smooth transitions and minimal downtime.

Risk mitigation measures include a complete system backup to minimize potential for of data loss and down time.

 Data migration planning and performing of critical procedures ensures a smooth data transition and system reliability.

Can your company afford to have significant down time or data loss during a system changeover? Data migrations are a complicated process whether they involve a change or transfer of OS, files, database, web, e-mail or hardware. To reduce the risk of data loss or extended down time, a system changeover requires significant planning and effort.

Proper planning requires setting up the new equipment in advance with a standard 72 hour burn-in period to ensure system reliability. During that period, it is essential that security functions specific to the new hardware are thoroughly investigated. Although most security should be assigned via an authentication server,  some systems may have used machine-specific security policies, which will not transfer to the new hardware since most machine-specific policies are rarely documented and will require significant investigation. 

A complete backup should be performed on the old system as well as a full restore of the data on the existing server before the migration is ready to be implemented.  Just before the new machine is installed, a new backup should be performed for any last minute changes that may have occurred during the testing.

Complete Systems Design's migration consultants are thoroughly experienced in planning and performing the critical procedures for a data migration to transition smoothly. Multiple precautionary measures will minimize the threat of data loss. CSD has performed migrations from the OS on groups of servers and workstations, database migrations and e-mail migrations including Windows 2008, IIS7, Exchange 2007 and SQL 2005 and 2008. Our IT solutions consulting team has also performed countless application migrations and will assist you with your next migration project.

Our professional network support includes data archiving and data backup solutions, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP).    Our IT consulting group can help ensure internet reliability and with internet failover and uninterruptable power supply solutions and power planning.

We are experience in data migration planning should your server be passed its prime.  Server migrations and office moves and office relocation planning can ensure minimal downtime.   Our systems migration consultants can assist with email server migrations and email server installations which include exchange server migrations, exchange server installation and exchange server maintenance.    File server hardware upgrades and file server operating system upgrades may be the reason for your file server migrations and file server installations and but CSD also excels in file server maintenance.  Systems migrations may include Microsoft SQL migrations for server hardware upgrades. Firewall and internet security installs are frequently critical components of any server installation.