Data Center Migration in Zurich

Equinix ZH4 - Zurich stands on Josefstrasse in Zurich. A migration here is physical work done in a building that another company owns and runs, so the plan has to fit the way that operator controls access to its halls. Reboot Monkey is a third-party datacenter services operator. It does not own data centers and it is not a hosting company, which means the move is organised around your equipment and your target facility, not around space Reboot Monkey needs to fill. Server migration, as Reboot Monkey defines it, is moving equipment between racks, rooms or facilities. In practice a project in Zurich can be a relocation from an old room to a new one, a consolidation of several racks into fewer, or a transfer from one facility to another. The scope is set before any engineer travels to site: which devices move, in what order, what is powered down and for how long, and what must be running again before the next stage starts.

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

A migration is delivered as a sequence of defined physical tasks, each of which Reboot Monkey can take on or leave to your team. The division of work is a decision made per project, not a fixed package.

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 a team that wants to keep control of its configuration work can do so while Reboot Monkey handles the hands-on tasks in the data hall.

A second, briefed Reboot Monkey engineer is named as backup for every customer site. For a migration this matters because the work is sequenced: if the engineer assigned to a step is unavailable, a person who already knows the plan and the site can continue it.

Reboot Monkey sells more than the labour. Rack space, IP transit, leased IP addresses, network and data-centre hardware are part of what it supplies, together with the services that deliver, install and support them. A move that needs new rack space or a new circuit at the destination can therefore be arranged with the same company that carries out the physical work, and for the equipment that has moved, hardware monitoring by the Reboot Monkey NOC is available once it is running in its new position.

Prices are quoted on request and depend on the customer and the size of the job.

These terms apply in every facility in Zurich 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.

Many migrations end with equipment in a new rack, and some begin with a decision about where that rack should be. If the destination in Zurich is not yet fixed, the options for placing hardware are set out under [Colocation in Zurich](/en/switzerland/zurich/colocation/), which covers rack space inside facilities that other companies own and run.

The same engineers who carry out a move can also support the equipment afterwards. Remote hands covers physical tasks carried out on your instruction, such as reboots, cable checks, component swaps and visual checks. Smart hands covers technical work that needs diagnostic judgement and configuration knowledge. Both are available for the equipment once it has settled into its new position, so that a fault found after the move does not require a separate dispatch arrangement.

For hardware that is not moving at all, decommissioning removes and disposes of retired equipment. As of 2026, Reboot Monkey's field engineers work in 190 countries and more than 400 locations, which allows a multi-site move to be handled under one arrangement.