Data Center Migration in Brussels

Digital Realty BRU1 - Brussels stands on Wezenbeekstraat in Brussels. A migration in this city usually starts with a question the buyer has to settle early: which part of the move is handled by Reboot Monkey engineers and which part by the internal team. Reboot Monkey can run the whole physical move, or work alongside the customer's own team. Who disconnects, reconnects and tests the equipment is agreed per project, before any date is set.

Reboot Monkey is a third-party datacenter services operator. It does not own or run the buildings in which it works. The facility operator owns and runs the building, including its power, cooling and access policy, and Reboot Monkey engineers work under the operator's site rules. For a migration, this means access arrangements for the source and destination are coordinated with the operators concerned, and the move plan is built around the rules that each building sets.

The definition we use is narrow on purpose. Server migration is moving equipment between racks, rooms or facilities. Where the destination needs new hardware installed, mounted and cabled, that falls under rack and stack. Where the source is being emptied and retired, removal and disposal of the old hardware falls under data center decommissioning. Keeping these scopes distinct lets a project be quoted and tracked as separate pieces of work.

Data centres in Brussels, ordered by the number of networks present:

A migration in Brussels is built from the services below, combined to fit the project. Each one has a defined scope, so the quote and the work order say the same thing.

Server migration covers the move itself: equipment goes from one rack, room or facility to another. Rack and stack covers the destination side, with new hardware installed, mounted and cabled. Smart hands covers technical work that needs diagnostic judgement and configuration knowledge, for example when a moved device has to be checked against its configuration before it is handed back. Remote hands covers physical tasks carried out on your instruction, such as reboots, cable checks, component swaps and visual checks, which is useful for the hours after a move when your team is working remotely.

Connectivity is part of the move as well. Reboot Monkey sells the network for the rack: it orders the cross connects and carrier circuits from the facility operator and the carriers present in the facility, and Reboot Monkey engineers install and patch the cabling in the customer's rack. For a migration this means the circuits for the new location can be ordered through the same supplier that does the physical work.

At the source side, data center decommissioning removes and disposes of retired hardware. If the retired equipment holds data, IT asset disposition (ITAD) covers data wiping, on-site shredding or degaussing, collection and transport, and resale or buyback quoted case by case. This is processed by Reboot Monkey staff in a partner's processing facility or on the customer's site. After the move, hardware monitoring means the Reboot Monkey NOC monitors the customer's servers and network equipment.

The case for using Reboot Monkey on a migration rests on how the work is organised, and each point below is a statement of operating fact.

First, one supplier can cover the physical move, the network and the aftercare. Reboot Monkey sells rack space, IP transit, leased IP addresses, network, data-centre hardware and the services that deliver, install and support them, inside data centres that other companies own and run. It is not a hosting company, so there is no hosting platform to steer a migration toward.

Second, continuity on site is planned. A second, briefed Reboot Monkey engineer is named as backup for every customer site. If the first engineer is unavailable, the project does not stall for lack of someone who knows the site.

Third, the division of labour is explicit. Because who disconnects, reconnects and tests is agreed per project, an internal team that wants to keep control of cutover and testing can do so, and a team that wants the whole physical move handled can hand it over.

Fourth, scale is a matter of record. As of 2026, Reboot Monkey's field engineers work in 190 countries and more than 400 locations. For a company whose Brussels migration is one leg of a wider move, the same operator can handle the other sites.

Prices are quoted on request and depend on the customer and the size of the job. To start, describe the equipment, the source and the destination in a request through the contact page, and the scope of work is set from that description.

These terms apply in every facility in Brussels where Reboot Monkey engineers work.

The data centres we work in hold their own certifications, such as ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 9001. Ask us for the certificate of your site.