Data centers represent a significant investment and asset to an organization, usually serving as the center of operations to enable business success via technology. While investment in cloud services remains a strong alternative to on-premises data centers, many organizations nevertheless choose to implement or retain a full or partial presence of in-house server rooms.

This checklist, from TechRepublic Premium, can help you plan out both data center implementations or, in the event your organization is opting for a cloud solution (or closing its doors), the decommissioning of the in-house data center.

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