Data Center Migration in Geneva

Equinix GV1 - Geneva, City stands on Rue de la Confédération in Geneva. A move into, out of or within a building like this is a physical project, and the physical part is what Reboot Monkey takes on: the equipment leaves one rack position and arrives in another, cabled and ready for your team to bring back into service.

Reboot Monkey is a third-party datacenter services operator. It does not own or run the data centres where it works, and it is not a hosting company. That position matters for a migration, because the source and the destination are usually two buildings with two sets of operator rules, and the move has to fit both of them. 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.

A migration is one of several services Reboot Monkey delivers on site, next to installing new hardware and removing retired hardware. If your project combines a move with new racks or with the removal of old equipment, those parts can be planned together as one piece of work.

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

Server migration, in Reboot Monkey's definition, is moving equipment between racks, rooms or facilities. In Geneva that covers the steps that surround the move itself, so that the equipment you hand over is the equipment you find installed at the destination.

A migration puts production equipment in motion, so the question for a CTO or IT Director is who stands in the room when it happens and who covers for them. A second, briefed Reboot Monkey engineer is named as backup for every customer site. If the engineer assigned to your move is unavailable, the person stepping in already knows the project.

The division of work is set before the move, not during it. Some customers want Reboot Monkey to handle every disconnect, transport step and reconnection. Others keep their own administrators for testing and bring Reboot Monkey in for the hands-on work in the rack. Both arrangements are normal, and the split is written into the project plan.

Reboot Monkey is vendor-neutral: it sells rack space, IP transit, leased IP addresses, network and data-centre hardware, and the services that deliver, install and support them, inside facilities that other companies run. For procurement teams this means one counterparty can cover the connectivity, the hardware and the people doing the move. Prices are quoted on request and depend on the customer and the size of the job.

These terms apply in every facility in Geneva 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.

Moves rarely stay inside one city. A Geneva project may start from a facility elsewhere in the country, or may send equipment on to another site. Reboot Monkey runs the same service in other Swiss cities, and a project that ends in Zurich can be planned together with the Geneva end, for example as Data Center Migration in Zurich. As of 2026, Reboot Monkey's field engineers work in 190 countries and more than 400 locations, so a move that crosses a border can be planned with the same provider at both ends.

A migration usually pulls other physical work with it. Once the equipment is in its new rack, you may need extra servers installed through Rack and Stack in Geneva, or a longer-term home for the hardware through Colocation in Geneva. Where the old site is being emptied, Data Center Decommissioning in Geneva covers removing and disposing of the retired hardware. Between planned moves, Server Migration in Geneva handles smaller relocations of single systems.

After go-live, day-to-day tasks are covered by Remote Hands in Geneva for instructed physical work such as reboots, cable checks and visual checks, and by Smart Hands in Geneva for technical work that needs diagnostic judgement and configuration knowledge.