Mergers and acquisitions often involve inheriting data center footprints with unknown contracts, aging infrastructure, and capacity constraints. RLM assesses the physical infrastructure, colocation agreements, and hosting contracts across both organizations to build a rationalization plan that reduces cost and consolidates operations.
RLM provides independent, vendor-neutral advisory that gives deal teams and integration leaders the technology clarity they need to make informed decisions and execute with confidence.
We document every data center relationship — owned facilities, colocation agreements, managed hosting contracts, and disaster recovery sites — capturing contract terms, expiration dates, power commitments, and renewal obligations across both entities.
We assess compute, storage, and network utilization within each facility to identify stranded capacity, over-provisioned resources, and infrastructure that can be consolidated or decommissioned without business impact.
We evaluate physical security, power redundancy, cooling architecture, and compliance certifications at each facility — flagging single points of failure, expired certifications, and facilities that don't meet the combined organization's requirements.
We model the total cost of each data center relationship — base rent, power, cross-connects, metered usage, and contract penalties — to identify which facilities deliver value and which represent consolidation opportunities.
We design the target data center topology and build a phased plan for consolidation — which facilities to retain, which to exit, what workloads to migrate, and how to navigate contract termination without excessive penalties.
We advise on workload migration sequencing from divested facilities — application dependency mapping, network cutover planning, and the coordination between data center providers, carriers, and internal IT teams required for a clean transition.
Start with a no-cost data center assessment — we'll inventory every facility, evaluate the contracts, and build the consolidation roadmap.
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