Data Center Strategy & Selection Consultation

Service benefits:

  • Global availability
  • Expert advisors with hands-on industry experience
  • Providing consultation for every facet of a data center transition no matter how complex
  • Advanced project scalability when combined with other ABM IT support services

Service value:

  • Reduces IT management and staff burden
  • Reduces data center transition costs
  • Ensures short project timelines can be met
  • Provides adaptive solutions to ensure long term business objectives can be met
  • Provides an objective perspective, current market trend insights, best practices framework, and accurate capacity forecasts

Data Center Strategy Consultation service highlights:

  • Advisory focal points include:
    • Project efficiency
    • Minimizing / Reducing costs
    • Designing adaptive solutions to meet future needs
    • Maximizing data center production during transition
  • Data center strategy:
    • Business case
      • Influencing factors
      • IT organizational maturity
      • Best practices
      • Market trends
      • Capacity plan
    • Data center options
      • Alternatives considered
      • Obstacle and risk assessment
      • Recommended approach
    • Financial model
      • Option review
      • Current price trends
      • Capacity and cost projections
    • Future site selection criteria
      • Location hazards and risks
      • 5 - 7 year cost projections
      • Capacity assessments
      • Short list of site options
      • Recommended solution
    • High level approach and next steps
      • Timeline
      • Resource identification
      • Recommended solution
      • Executive presentation

Data Center Site Selection Consultation service highlights

  • Site selection:
    • Detailed site selection criteria
      • Prioritized based on strategy, financial model, and influencing factors
    • Location parameters
      • Hazard assessments
    • Vetted location options
      • Reviewed and netted to short list for further analysis
    • Preliminary analysis per location
      • Discreet negotiations with potential vendors
      • Financial implications and pre-negotiated cost analysis
      • Hazard review
      • References
      • Recommended short list and presentation
    • Short list of locations
      • Establish site selection criteria for each location
      • Assignment and customer resources/stakeholders
      • NDA contract processing
      • Site visit logistics
    • Site criteria analysis and recommended approach
      • Risk and financial analysis for short listed locations
      • Comprehensive business case and recommended site
      • Final contract negotiations
      • Executive presentation and next steps

Providing IT leaders with the knowledge of seasoned professionals.


Having successfully completed thousands of data center transition projects, the experts that make up the ABM Transitional Services Team are highly specialized with a tremendous amount of knowledge and hands-on experience. From colocation transitions to global, multi-site data center strategies, there is no project too complex. Providing IT leaders with sound solutions using industry best practices, ABM experts provide strategic insight and help guide a business through every step of its project, approaching each with an intense focus on providing solutions that not only meet client requirements, but also continue to be effective, economical and flexible solutions well into the future. To develop and deliver a strong business case, which includes financial modeling and multiple solution options, these experts use:

  • Key data points within the client’s organization
  • A best practices framework
  • Future state requirements
  • The latest market trends

Expert advisement that simplifies even the most complex projects.


The ABM Transitional Services Team is comprised of industry experts experienced in:

  • Data center design
  • Data center builds
  • Disaster recovery site strategies
  • Multi-site complexities
  • Data center operations and management

This team also includes many IT experts that provide tactical platform and system specific solutions when needed to overcome obstacles such as managing the increasingly dense computing environments.

Engaging ABM for a Data Center Strategy and Selection Consultation is simple and the service is highly customizable. And because of their experience, the ABM Transitional Services Team begins every consultation project with a clear client perspective. When businesses call on ABM to provide guidance through one of the most difficult challenges they may face, the expertise, experience and unrelenting dedication to the client’s success is what they can expect.

Providing IT leaders with advanced scalability.


Our Data Center Strategy and Selection Consultation service can also be combined with many other complementary ABM services which provide advanced project scalability. These services include:

  • Data center relocations, consolidations and migrations
  • System decommisioning
    • Secure on-site or off-site data erasure
    • Secure on-site or off-site disk and tape shredding
    • IT asset disposition (e-Stewards certified)
  • Secure on-site or off-site data erasure
  • Secure on-site or off-site disk and tape shredding
  • IT asset disposition (e-Stewards certified)
  • IT hardware maintenance
  • Internal IT hardware audits
  • IT asset repurposing
  • IT asset resale