Strategy – planning, process and methodology Improperly planned and poorly performed migrations of web sites and servers can have a profound impact on business operations. This can result in significant lost revenue, extended disruption of service, additional expense and worst of all, customer dissatisfaction. We understand the complexity and sensitivity of data migration management and work very closely with our clients to ensure an appropriate strategy is developed. Every business must balance cost and risk when contemplating data migration and DataMove offers a variety of migration strategies which can be modified according to our clients needs. They are: Fork-Lift – highest risk, least cost Functional or budgetary constraints require existing production site to be deactivated, dismantled, and reinstalled at the new site, incurring downtime in all cases. Cut-Over – highest cost, least risk A functionally complete site is readied at the new location, such that the live configuration is capable of supporting all subsystems and production traffic during transition to full capacity. Downtime is minimized or does not occur.   Segmented – cost and risk can be balanced The existing production system can be broken into logical segments and migrated in separate steps. Incremental systems are operationally established at the new site prior to the migration, and the workload is supported by one segment as the full configuration is re-established. The final step is to rejoin the segments at the new site. Data and site synchronization will be accurately executed to minimize or avoid downtime.