Server Migration in Helsinki

Digita Helsinki Pasila Broadcasting Tower stands on Radiokatu in Helsinki. A migration in this city is a physical project: servers, storage and network equipment leave one position and arrive in another, and the services running on them have to come back up in the order the customer's runbook sets. Reboot Monkey is a third-party datacenter services operator. It does not own or run the buildings it works in, and it does not host workloads. Its role in a migration is the hands-on work in the customer's rack space, inside data centres that other companies own and run.

Server migration, in the terms Reboot Monkey uses, is the moving of equipment between racks, rooms or facilities. That covers a move within one hall, a move between rooms of one building, and a move from one facility to another. The sections below set out what the work consists of and how it is run.

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

A migration request starts with the scope: which equipment moves, where it currently sits, where it is going and what has to be running at the end. From that, Reboot Monkey and the customer agree who does what. 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, so the split follows the customer's internal responsibilities rather than a fixed package.

The physical work around a move typically draws on several of Reboot Monkey's field services:

Reboot Monkey works as a vendor-neutral third party. It sells rack space, IP transit, leased IP addresses, network and data-centre hardware, together with the services that deliver, install and support them, so a migration can include the connectivity at the destination as well as the equipment. For the network side, Reboot Monkey orders the cross connects and carrier circuits from the facility operator and the carriers present in the facility, and its engineers install and patch the cabling in the customer's rack. A migration therefore does not leave the new rack waiting on a separate cabling contractor. For every customer site, a second, briefed Reboot Monkey engineer is named as backup, so the move does not depend on one person being available on the day. On scale, as of 2026, Reboot Monkey's field engineers work in 190 countries and more than 400 locations. Prices are quoted on request and depend on the customer and the size of the job, so the first step is a short description of what needs to move.

These terms apply in every facility in Helsinki 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.

A server migration often runs together with a change in where the equipment is housed. If the destination is a new rack position in the city, the customer can plan the move together with its space and connectivity through Colocation in Helsinki, so the rack, the power allocation agreed with the operator and the network are ready before the first server is unracked at the source. Retired hardware left at the source site can then be handled through decommissioning and IT asset disposition, which Reboot Monkey staff process either on the customer's site or in a partner's processing facility.