Server Migration Services in Ireland

Physical server migration refers to the hands-on relocation of server hardware, storage arrays, networking equipment, and full rack assemblies between physical locations inside or between data centres. Reboot Monkey provides physical server migration services in Ireland covering three distinct scopes: intra-DC moves (within the same facility, between racks or floors), inter-DC moves (between two different data centres in Ireland, such as Equinix DB1 to Interxion DUB1), and cross-border moves (from a UK facility to an Irish facility or vice versa). Physical server migration is not cloud migration, OS migration, application migration, or virtualisation. If you are moving workloads from on-premises hardware to AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, that is a software and networking exercise. Reboot Monkey does not perform cloud migrations. What we do is move the physical hardware that runs your workloads from one cage, rack, or building to another, ensuring it arrives powered down correctly, protected from electrostatic discharge and physical shock, and documented at every stage of transit. This distinction matters in Ireland more than in most markets. Because many search queries for "server migration" in Ireland are generated by IT teams at multinational technology companies managing hybrid infrastructure (some workloads in cloud, some in on-premises or colocation hardware), buyers need to confirm they are engaging a physical DC services provider before starting a procurement conversation. Reboot Monkey is exclusively a physical datacenter services company. Every engagement involves a field engineer attending your facility in person. The services deployed in a typical server migration project include: <a href="/en/remote-hands/ireland/">remote hands support</a> for preparation tasks (labelling, cable documentation, visual inventory), <a href="/en/smart-hands/ireland/">smart hands technical work</a> for network reconfiguration and OS-level verification before and after the move, <a href="/en/rack-and-stack/ireland/">rack and stack installation</a> at the destination facility, and in larger projects, elements of a full <a href="/en/data-center-migration/ireland/">datacenter migration</a> plan. Server migration is often the first physical phase of a broader consolidation or facility exit programme.

Dublin accounts for approximately 90% of Ireland's colocation capacity and is the primary market for physical server migration work. The dominant facilities are operated by Equinix (DB1 through DB4) and by Interxion, now part of Digital Realty (DUB1 and DUB2). Equinix DB1 is located at Kilcarbery Business Park in Dublin 22 and is the flagship Irish facility by tenant density. DB2 is at Clonshaugh Industrial Estate in Dublin 17. DB3 at Profile Park and DB4 at Ballycoolin complete the Dublin campus network. Interxion DUB1 is at the North Dock area of Dublin's Docklands, with DUB2 also in the Clonshaugh corridor. Beyond Equinix and Interxion, Dublin hosts CyrusOne's Irish facility, data centres operated by Datahops, and carrier-neutral facilities connected via INEX (Internet Neutral Exchange), which is Ireland's primary internet exchange point located in Dublin. INEX operates across multiple facilities in the city, making Dublin a genuine carrier-neutral hub rather than a single-operator campus. The multinationals with European infrastructure in Dublin include AWS (Mulhuddart), Microsoft (Leopardstown and Cherrywood), Google (Barrow Street and Clonshaugh), Meta (Clonee), and Apple, whose data centre is in Athenry, County Galway, not Dublin. This corporate density creates a sustained demand for third-party physical migration services: companies regularly expand, consolidate, or relocate on-premises and colocation hardware between facilities as contracts expire, capacity requirements change, or corporate restructuring requires infrastructure rationalisation. Cork is Ireland's second city and a secondary data centre market, located approximately 220 kilometres south of Dublin. Cork hosts smaller enterprise and carrier facilities serving the south of Ireland. Server migration projects in Cork typically involve office-to-colo moves or relocations between local enterprise facilities rather than the large inter-DC migrations more common in Dublin. Reboot Monkey covers Cork as part of Ireland-wide coverage. For buyers planning moves between Equinix Dublin facilities specifically: Equinix DB1, DB2, DB3, and DB4 are the correct facility codes for Dublin. The code prefix for Equinix London is LD, not DB. This distinction matters when quoting work orders, cage access requests, and migration documentation. Confirming the correct DB-series code with your Equinix account manager before raising a cross-connect or access order prevents scheduling delays.

Reboot Monkey operates as a third-party physical datacenter services provider. We are not affiliated with Equinix, Digital Realty, CyrusOne, or any other facility operator. This independence means we can execute migration work across any combination of Irish facilities without being limited to a single operator's professional services programme or subject to that operator's internal scheduling and pricing constraints. A typical Ireland server migration engagement follows this sequence: 1. Pre-migration audit. A Reboot Monkey field engineer attends your source facility to document the existing rack layout, label all cables and hardware assets, photograph the configuration, and produce a pre-migration inventory record. For GDPR compliance, this audit includes documenting which assets contain storage media that may hold personal data. This documentation becomes part of the chain-of-custody record. 2. Migration planning. Reboot Monkey coordinates the downtime window with your IT team, the source facility access desk, and the destination facility access desk. For Equinix Dublin moves, this means submitting cross-connect orders and cage access requests in advance. Downtime windows for a single server typically run two to four hours; a full rack moves typically require an overnight or weekend window. Production workloads in financial services and healthcare environments often require maintenance windows agreed weeks in advance with internal change management boards. 3. Physical relocation. On the day of the migration, Reboot Monkey engineers power down hardware following your documented shutdown procedure, remove equipment from racks using appropriate antistatic and mechanical precautions, and package for transport using purpose-built server shipping materials with shock and vibration monitoring where specified. All cabling is labelled and bundled for reinstallation. Transit between Dublin facilities uses bonded logistics partners with GPS tracking. 4. Rack and stack at destination. At the destination facility, Reboot Monkey engineers <a href="/en/rack-and-stack/ireland/">rack and stack</a> the hardware, reconnect cabling to the documented configuration, and perform power-on verification. Network connectivity is confirmed before the maintenance window is closed. 5. Post-migration verification. <a href="/en/smart-hands/ireland/">Smart hands support</a> is available post-migration for any connectivity troubleshooting, OS-level checks via KVM or IPMI, or configuration adjustments required to bring workloads back online in the new location. Reboot Monkey runs at 230V/50Hz, which is Ireland's standard mains voltage, matching all Irish colocation facilities. Power compatibility is not a variable in Irish server migrations. Contact Reboot Monkey for a migration assessment tailored to your facility list and server count at <a href="/en/contact/">rebootmonkey.com/en/contact/</a>.

Ireland has a compliance environment that distinguishes it from any other EU data centre market. Understanding this environment is essential for planning a server migration that does not create regulatory exposure. GDPR and the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) in Dublin is the EU lead supervisory authority for most major US technology companies operating in Europe. Under Article 56 of GDPR, the supervisory authority of the country where a company has its EU main establishment takes the lead on cross-border enforcement. Because AWS, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Apple have designated their EU main establishments in Ireland, the DPC has lead authority over these companies' data processing activities across the entire EU. This creates a specific compliance obligation for physical server migration in Ireland. If you are moving physical servers that contain storage media holding personal data of EU residents, that physical movement is a processing activity under GDPR. The movement must be documented. If hardware is transported between two separate legal entities or leaves and re-enters a controller's control at any point in transit, a data processing agreement (DPA) may be required between the parties involved in the move. Reboot Monkey provides chain-of-custody documentation for every server migration project. This documentation records which engineer handled each asset, when and where each transfer of custody occurred, and confirms that at no point did unauthorised parties have access to the equipment. This documentation satisfies the technical and organisational measures requirement of GDPR Article 32 for physical media in transit. For any migration involving servers that process data subject to DPC oversight, we recommend that your data protection officer or legal counsel reviews the chain-of-custody documentation format before the migration commences. Reboot Monkey's documentation is designed to be auditable by a supervisory authority but the determination of whether DPC notification is required for a specific migration is a legal question outside our scope. DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) DORA entered application in January 2025 and applies to financial entities operating in the EU, including banks, payment institutions, insurance companies, investment firms, and their critical ICT third-party service providers. Dublin's IFSC (International Financial Services Centre) houses European operations for hundreds of financial entities subject to DORA, making DORA compliance a live operational requirement for a significant segment of Ireland's server migration market. DORA Article 11 requires financial entities to maintain business continuity plans and ICT continuity policies that address physical infrastructure resilience. A server migration at a DORA-regulated financial entity is an ICT change that must be documented in the entity's ICT change management records. The migration must demonstrate that continuity risks were assessed, that rollback procedures were defined, and that the migration was executed within the entity's documented change management framework. Reboot Monkey provides migration documentation that is compatible with DORA ICT change management records: a pre-migration risk assessment form, a migration runbook with defined rollback decision points, and a post-migration completion report confirming successful service restoration. These documents are intended to support the client's internal DORA compliance obligations; they are not a substitute for the client's own ICT risk assessment process. For financial services firms at Dublin IFSC planning a server migration, we recommend engaging Reboot Monkey at the planning stage, before the change management submission, so that the migration runbook and documentation format are agreed before the change management window is approved.

Reboot Monkey is not a managed service provider, a hardware reseller, or a software vendor. We are a physical datacenter services company. This positioning matters when you are choosing a server migration partner in Ireland. Equinix, Digital Realty, and CyrusOne each offer professional services programmes for work inside their own facilities. These programmes are operated by the facility owner and are by design available only within that operator's campus. If your migration involves hardware in an Equinix DB-series facility and a Digital Realty DUB-series facility simultaneously, neither operator's in-house team can handle both sides of the move under a single scope of work. An independent provider can. Reboot Monkey operates across all major Irish facilities under a single engagement. This matters practically when: Your contract at Interxion DUB1 is expiring and you are moving to Equinix DB2. You need one team to manage decommissioning, transit, and reinstallation across both operators without the coordination overhead of managing two separate professional services relationships. You are consolidating a distributed infrastructure spread across Equinix DB1, DB3, and a CyrusOne facility into a single Equinix DB4 deployment. A single Reboot Monkey engagement covers all three source sites and the destination under one project plan and one set of documentation. You are a UK-based company moving physical servers from a London facility to Dublin for EU data residency following post-Brexit infrastructure rationalisation. Reboot Monkey covers both sides of that cross-border move. The vendor-neutral model also applies to hardware. Reboot Monkey technicians are trained on equipment from Dell, HPE, Cisco, Juniper, Supermicro, and other major vendors. We do not require you to use specific hardware brands or commit to future equipment purchases. The engagement is scoped to the physical migration task. For larger programmes involving <a href="/en/data-center-migration/ireland/">full data centre migration</a> or <a href="/en/smart-hands/ireland/">ongoing smart hands support</a> across multiple Irish facilities, Reboot Monkey can provide a managed services agreement covering multiple sites under a single SLA. Contact us at <a href="/en/contact/">rebootmonkey.com/en/contact/</a> to discuss multi-site coverage.

The buyers of physical server migration services in Ireland span three main segments, each with different requirements and decision-making processes. Multinational technology companies with European infrastructure in Dublin AWS, Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Apple have substantial physical infrastructure in and around Dublin. Their European operations teams regularly need to move hardware between expansion phases, consolidate infrastructure across campus buildings, or decommission end-of-life equipment. These projects involve large server counts, strict change management processes, and a strong requirement for GDPR chain-of-custody documentation given the volume of EU personal data processed. Procurement at this level typically requires a vendor security review and formal services agreement before any migration commences. For this segment, Reboot Monkey provides: structured pre-migration documentation, a named project manager for the engagement, and post-migration completion reports compatible with internal audit and compliance requirements. Dublin IFSC financial services firms Dublin's IFSC hosts European operations for banks, investment managers, payment processors, and insurance companies. Many of these firms are subject to DORA (applicable from January 2025) and require that physical infrastructure changes are documented in their ICT change management framework. Server migrations for this segment involve advance planning, defined rollback procedures, and documentation that can be presented to financial regulators if required. The compliance overhead is higher than in other sectors, but so is the contract value per project. For this segment, Reboot Monkey provides: DORA-compatible migration runbooks, pre-migration risk assessments, and post-migration completion reports designed for inclusion in ICT change management records. SME and regional enterprises Ireland has a substantial base of SMEs with on-premises server infrastructure in office environments or small colocation cages at Dublin facilities. These companies may be moving to a colocation provider for the first time (office to colo), upgrading to a larger cage, or consolidating multiple small deployments. Server counts are typically lower (one to twenty servers), and the primary concern is minimising disruption to business operations rather than regulatory compliance documentation. For this segment, Reboot Monkey provides: a straightforward migration service with pre-migration labelling, a defined maintenance window, physical transport, and reinstallation at the destination. No minimum server count and no requirement for a long-term services contract. UK companies establishing Irish infrastructure for EU data residency Following Brexit, a number of UK companies have moved or are planning to move physical server infrastructure from UK data centres to Irish facilities to establish EU data residency. This is particularly relevant for companies processing data of EU residents who need to ensure their data processing does not involve transfers to a third country (the UK is now a third country for GDPR purposes, operating under an adequacy decision that may be reviewed). For these moves, Reboot Monkey provides cross-border physical migration with documented EU data residency handover confirmation.