For over 25 years, SMS has been relocating servers and data centers. 

We have the ability to provide a full turnkey service or a simple box move. However, we’ve learned that it’s not just about moving boxes. This may be your organization's most important and visible project yet the skills needed to perform this service are not commonly available in most data centers.

Selecting SMS as your relocation vendor is an important first step toward success. Our mission in any relocation is to have a non-eventful migration. Delivering "non-events" takes years of practice to avoid the common pitfalls and focus on the critical success factors.

Your IT organization may want to play a role in the migration as well since it requires:

• many disciplines,


• detailed project management,


• migration strategies,


• application pre/post testing,


• data synchronization,


• new site commissioning,


• hardware maintenance and warranty transfer just to mention a few.

To meet these needs SMS offers a full range of services as part of a turnkey relocation project.

SMS offers Basic Box Move Service as our fundamental offering in our data migration services portfolio. SMS supplies the system engineers as required based on the approach and vendor requirements and takes the lead from your company’s project manager. SMS supplies limited supervisory support over our personnel, packing material, transportation, insurance, warranties, and maintenance on faulty equipment due to the move. We have experience in moving many manufacturers equipment. Manufacturers Experience.

SMS offers a Oversight Migration Service (OMS) that includes everything in the Basic Box Move service plus it includes a data center relocation specialist to manage the SMS system engineers. This specialist will review your company’s overall migration approach, detailed plans, and logistics to ensure accuracy. Your relocation specialist is on-site at your company and assures continuity throughout the duration of your project.

SMS offers a Consulting Migration Service (CMS) that includes everything in the Oversight Migration service plus "one to many" data relocation specialists to assist your company with all or portions of the relocation. These specialists can develop the Project Management Office structure to manage your company’s resources and integrate themselves into key sub-project management roles underneath the primary project manager. Having this expertise on site and by your side helps ensure a non-eventful migration.

Data center relocations are not just about moving boxes. Your business like many others is becoming more dependent on technology so any outage can be a major impact. Add to this the complex interdependencies between critical applications and you have a complicated migration on your hands.

In this situation SMS offers a Turnkey Migration Service to ease the pain of data center relocations. Our project managers have done this before and know there is not a “one-size-fits-all” service. All options need to be considered and our approach and strategy must be customized for your company.