Data Center October 12, 2026
GPU Server Transportation: How to Ship AI Servers Safely
GPU server transportation: weight, shock, value, and how to ship them safely.
Nick Herrera Blog
Data Center articles
Data center relocation, migration, and infrastructure insights
Nick Herrera 
Data Center October 12, 2026
MDF vs IDF: The Difference Between the Two Rooms
MDF vs IDF: the main telecom room, the floor closets, and the cable between.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center October 12, 2026
Server Removal Company: What to Expect and What to Ask
What a server removal company does and the paperwork you should get back.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center October 12, 2026
Data Center Relocation Equipment: What a Move Really Uses
Data center relocation equipment, from rack dollies to air-ride trucks.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center October 1, 2026
Why Hardware Needs to Acclimatize Before Power-On
Cold servers in a warm room collect water before they collect uptime.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center October 1, 2026
Seismic Bracing and Rack Anchoring at the Destination
A rack that is not anchored becomes the hazard in an earthquake.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center October 1, 2026
Moving Equipment Between Cages in the Same Facility
A move of two hundred feet still needs a work order, a route and a new circuit.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center September 23, 2026
Server Relocation: Shutdown and Power-On Sequencing
Shut down from the top of the stack. Bring it back from the bottom.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center September 23, 2026
Building a Risk Register for a Data Center Relocation
A risk nobody wrote down has no owner when it happens.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center September 23, 2026
How to Evaluate a Data Center Relocation Company
The firm that wins the bid is not always the firm that shows up.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center September 23, 2026
How Long Does a Data Center Relocation Take?
The truck is the short part. The months before it decide the date.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center September 16, 2026
SAN Capacity Planning Before a Migration
Migrating a storage estate without first measuring it moves the problem.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center September 16, 2026
Power Density Planning for GPU Racks
A GPU rack can draw more than an entire row of conventional servers.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center September 16, 2026
Edge Server Deployment: Site Requirements
Edge sites fail on power, access, and temperature long before hardware.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center September 14, 2026
Building Access, Rigging, and Freight Elevator Constraints
The route from the truck to the rack position is where moves get stuck.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center September 14, 2026
Relocating Liquid-Cooled Racks
Liquid cooling turns a rack move into a plumbing project.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center September 14, 2026
Floor Loading and Structural Limits in Data Center Moves
The rack fits the space. The question is whether the floor holds it.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center September 10, 2026
Lift-and-Shift, Cold, or Phased: Choosing a Migration Approach
The approach is chosen by outage tolerance and budget, not by preference.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center September 10, 2026
Data Center Consolidation: Many Sites Into Fewer
Consolidation is many migrations sharing one destination and one deadline.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center September 10, 2026
Blade Chassis: Moving Them Populated or Moving Them Empty
A loaded chassis is a quarter ton in four rack units. Weight drives the plan.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center September 3, 2026
Structured Cabling and Cross-Connects in a New Build
The cable plant is poured concrete. You get one chance to do it right.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center August 31, 2026
Moving the MDF and IDF: The Telecom Rooms Everyone Plans Last
Telecom rooms carry the carrier demarc. They set the schedule, not the servers.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center August 28, 2026
Rack and Stack at Scale: Building Out a New Facility
How to receive, rack and cable a new facility without losing the schedule.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center August 24, 2026
Mainframe Relocation: Moving Systems That Cannot Be Replaced
Why mainframe moves follow different rules than the rest of the floor.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center August 24, 2026
Migrating SAN Fabrics Without Losing Path Redundancy
Moving storage networks while keeping every host on at least one working path.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center August 20, 2026
Cloud Repatriation: Planning the Move Back to On-Premises
How to plan the physical side of bringing workloads back from public cloud.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center August 20, 2026
Relocating GPU and AI Clusters: Weight, Power, and Precision
How to move GPU and AI clusters: weight, power, liquid cooling and bring-up.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center August 14, 2026
Strategies for Zero-Downtime Infrastructure Migrations
Parallel, rolling and blue-green migrations, and who does which part.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center August 14, 2026
Managing Power and Cooling During Data Center Moves
Power and cooling best practices for data center relocations.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center August 14, 2026
Enterprise Storage Migration: Planning Data and Hardware Moves
How IT teams plan storage migrations, and where the physical array move fits.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center August 14, 2026
Planning Your Network Infrastructure Refresh
A five-phase plan for replacing switches, routers and cabling without outages.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center August 3, 2026
Mergers & Acquisitions: Integrating IT Infrastructure Post-Deal
Navigate the logistics of combining two IT environments after M&A.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center August 3, 2026
Data Center Decommissioning: A Step-by-Step Shutdown Guide
Complete process for safely decommissioning a data center facility.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center July 29, 2026
Edge Computing Deployment Logistics for Distributed Sites
Master the logistics challenges of deploying edge computing infrastructure.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center July 29, 2026
Colocation Migration: How to Plan a Move to a Colo Facility
How to plan a colocation migration: facility choice, timeline, move day, checks.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center July 28, 2026
Network Infrastructure Relocation: Minimizing Downtime
How to relocate switches, routers and cabling while keeping the network up.
Nick Herrera 
Data Center July 28, 2026
The Complete Guide to Data Center Relocation
How a data center relocation works: survey, strategy, transport and validation.
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