Data center Migration
leading a two-phase data center migration and consolidation program to optimize infrastructure costs and improve operational efficiency. The initiative involved first migrating the primary data center from the Head Office to Moratel Data Center, followed by a second phase consolidating additional servers previously hosted at CBN (Cyber 2 Building) into Moratel. This transformation enabled a fully managed hosting environment, reduced internal infrastructure complexity, and significantly lowered operational and maintenance costs while ensuring uninterrupted business operations.
Role / Contribution
IT Manager
Technology Stack
Compliances & Standards
PMP/ACP
IT Audit Compliance(SOX)
IT network
Hardware
The Challenge
The program involved multiple migration phases with different hosting environments and strict operational constraints.
Key challenges included:
- Ensuring zero downtime across all business-critical systems during both migration phases.
- Managing the relocation of heterogeneous infrastructure spread across Head Office and CBN data centers.
- Maintaining continuous availability of sales, front-end system, and supporting applications during transition activities.
- Coordinating multiple vendors and stakeholders, including Moratel, CBN, internal IT teams, and business users.
- Ensuring data integrity, system stability, and secure connectivity during and after consolidation.
- Aligning migration schedules across two separate phases while minimizing operational and business risk.
- Managing dependency mapping between systems to avoid service disruption during server relocation.
Strategic Solution
A structured phased migration and infrastructure consolidation strategy was implemented to ensure safe and controlled execution.
Key initiatives included:
- Led full IT governance for both migration phases, from planning through execution and post-migration validation.
- Conducted comprehensive infrastructure discovery across Head Office and CBN environments to identify system dependencies.
- Designed a phased migration approach:
- Phase 1: Migration of core data center infrastructure from Head Office to Moratel.
- Phase 2: Consolidation of remaining servers from CBN (Cyber 2 Building) into Moratel Data Center.
- Coordinated closely with Moratel and CBN technical teams to ensure readiness of hosting environments and network connectivity.
- Executed detailed cutover planning, including rollback strategies and validation checkpoints for each migration phase.
- Managed end-to-end testing for application availability, network routing, firewall rules, and system integration post-migration.
- Ensured continuous stakeholder communication and alignment across IT, business users, and external vendors.
- Implemented strict monitoring and issue management during both migration phases to ensure stability.
Impact & Results
The two-phase migration successfully delivered a centralized, cost-efficient, and fully managed hosting environment.
Key outcomes included:
- Achieved zero downtime across both migration phases, ensuring uninterrupted business operations.
- Successfully migrated all infrastructure from Head Office and CBN (Cyber 2 Building) into Moratel Data Center.
- Established a consolidated and simplified IT infrastructure landscape with improved operational manageability.
- Achieved annual IT cost savings of approximately IDR 500 million through data center consolidation and reduced maintenance overhead.
- Eliminated redundant infrastructure and reduced dependency on multiple hosting environments.
- Improved system reliability, scalability, and infrastructure governance under a single managed service provider.
- Enhanced operational efficiency through reduced complexity and centralized monitoring.
- Delivered the project successfully through strong IT leadership, vendor coordination, and disciplined phased execution.