Enterprises that grew through acquisition or decades of organic expansion frequently end up operating far more data center facilities than their current workload actually requires, each with its own maintenance contracts, power and cooling costs, and staffing overhead. Consolidation programs promise significant savings, but rushed execution can inadvertently create single points of failure that did not exist in the sprawling but redundant original footprint.
Consolidating capacity without consolidating risk
A sound consolidation plan maintains geographic and provider diversity for genuinely critical workloads even while shrinking the overall facility count, ensuring that consolidation reduces cost without also reducing resilience to a single site or provider outage. Application dependency mapping should precede any facility decommissioning, since undocumented cross-site dependencies are a common source of unplanned outages during consolidation projects.
Sequencing the move by application criticality, starting with lower-risk workloads to validate the target environment before migrating mission-critical systems, reduces the chance that a serious problem surfaces on the workload the business can least afford to lose.
JIG designs data center consolidation programs that capture cost savings while preserving the resilience the business depends on.