For whatever reason, in all my years of working in IT, I’ve been part of a number of large-scale data center relocations. Perhaps because of my tenure with an enormous company such as General Electric in my roles at GE Appliances, I’ve taken part in more than ten large-scale migrations of services.
Whether shutting down one data center and moving to another, migrating co-located services from one facility to another, mass migration from physical to virtual machines, or migration from on-premises to cloud, or cloud to other cloud. I’ve taken part in every form of mass migration of applications and services; and have been involved in the technical designs as well as the project management of these endeavors.
After a while, moving mountains isn’t so intimidating. Want to move everything you have from one place to another? No problem!