Using Internal Resources for physical migration tasks can have an adverse impact to your organization, including: reduced employee morale, increased opportunity/liability for personal injury, and lost revenue or productivity due to distraction from their regular job functions.

Additionally, by using the inappropriate resources for different aspects of a data center migration can cause downstream issues as the project progresses. For example, if a network engineer is tasked with the physical installation (i.e., rack and cable) of the network equipment, they are removed and distracted from their core function of configuration, turn up and testing of the new environment. Even if they are later tasked with their core function, they are not rested and at peak performance when they are needed most.

Also, most corporate insurance programs cover physical assets only when they are physically located on your premises, not when they are in transit. Additional insurance is available, however it is often quite expensive. Using a third party to manage and execute the transit portion of a migration allows the use of their transit insurance, typically at a much lower rate.