Your business outgrew the server closet. Summit gives it room to run.
When the boxes in the back office can no longer keep up with power, cooling, security, and uptime, it’s time to move them somewhere built for the job. Summit relocates your infrastructure into enterprise data centers and runs it for you, so your team stops babysitting hardware and gets back to the business.
On-prem made sense at first. Then the business caught up to it.
A few servers in a closet is a fine place to start. The trouble shows up later, in the power bill, the audit, and the 2 a.m. phone call.
Power and Cooling Maxed Out
That room was sized for a handful of servers, not today’s load. More capacity means electrical work, cooling, and floor space you don’t have.
One Site, No Real DR
A flood, a fire, or a failed AC unit in the building puts everything at risk. A single location is a single point of failure.
Security and Compliance Pressure
Auditors ask about physical access, controls, and backups. A back-office closet is hard to defend on paper and harder in practice.
Hardware and Staff Costs Add Up
Refresh cycles, warranties, patching, and after-hours alerts pull your team off the work that actually grows the business.
The workloads that do better in a real data center.
Not everything has to move on day one. These are the ones we move first.
A proven move, not a leap of faith.
Before we move anything, we audit your servers, applications, dependencies, and compliance needs. Every migration is de-risked at each stage, with fit-to-purpose infrastructure and minimal disruption to the business.
We’ve run this process for companies leaving aging server rooms for colocation, private cloud, and bare metal. The result: right-sized infrastructure, a real second site, and a team that no longer owns the hardware.
Start Your AssessmentInfrastructure Audit
We inventory your servers, applications, dependencies, licensing, power draw, and compliance requirements to map what moves and what stays.
Target Design
We scope a fit-to-purpose home: colocation, private cloud, bare metal, or a hybrid. Sized to your actual workloads, not a template.
Incremental Move
We migrate in stages and validate each one before the next begins. The business keeps running through the whole transition.
Managed Operations
Once live, Summit runs the hardware, monitoring, patching, and backups, and surfaces it all in the customer portal. Your team gets out of the server business.
The modern data center is nothing like the closet you left.
Pick the model that fits your team. Keep your hardware, trade it in for managed infrastructure, or land somewhere in between.
Colocation
Keep your hardware, lose the closet. We provide space, power, cooling, and connectivity in SOC 2 Type II facilities with biometric security, 24/7 on-site engineers, and U.S.-based Remote Hands.
Learn about ColocationPrivate Cloud
Trade aging boxes for dedicated, managed infrastructure on VMware, Hyper-V, or Proxmox. Summit handles updates, monitoring, security, and scaling so your team doesn’t have to.
Learn about Private CloudBare Metal Servers
Single-tenant dedicated hardware built to spec and fully managed, with no virtualization overhead. Right-sized to what you run, with room to grow when you need it.
Learn about Bare MetalTell us what’s in your server room. We’ll design the move.
No commitment. We’ll map your current setup to a Summit environment and walk you through the cost, uptime, and security difference.
Signs the closet has run its course.
You don’t need a disaster to justify the move. These patterns show up well before the pain gets serious.
When a cooling failure becomes an outage, the closet has become a liability, not an asset.
Every month past the warranty is a bet that nothing fails. Summit moves you onto managed, current hardware.
A local backup is no help when the whole site goes down. A second Summit site gives you a real recovery path.
HIPAA, SOC 2, and PCI DSS are far easier to demonstrate in audited facilities with documented physical controls.
Summit facilities run redundant power, cooling, and networking, backed by 100% uptime SLAs on power and IP.
Patching, swaps, and after-hours alerts are Summit’s job once you move. Your team gets back to the projects that matter.
Explore the infrastructure behind the move.
Colocation
Space, power, cooling, and connectivity in audited facilities with U.S.-based Remote Hands.
Managed Private Cloud
Dedicated, fully managed infrastructure on VMware, Hyper-V, or Proxmox, with contractual uptime SLAs.
Bare Metal Servers
Single-tenant, built-to-spec hardware, fully managed, with no virtualization overhead.
Questions we hear before every move.
Honest answers.
We start with an audit of your servers, applications, dependencies, and compliance needs. From there we design a target environment (colocation, private cloud, bare metal, or hybrid) and move workloads in stages. You keep running on-prem until each piece is validated in its new home.
Disruption is the concern we hear most. That’s why we migrate incrementally: one workload at a time, validated before the next begins, with cutover windows planned around your schedule. The goal is a move your customers never notice.
Yes. With colocation you bring your own hardware into a Summit facility and we provide the space, power, cooling, connectivity, and Remote Hands. If your gear is near end of life, we can move you onto managed private cloud or bare metal instead, so you stop buying and refreshing hardware altogether.
No. Most teams move in waves, often starting with backup and disaster recovery for an immediate win, then file servers, databases, and line-of-business apps. The audit phase prioritizes what moves first and what can stay put for now.
Summit holds a SOC 2 Type II (AT-101) audit and supports HIPAA, PCI DSS, and other requirements through documented controls, BAAs, and shared responsibility frameworks. Moving from an office closet into audited facilities with physical access controls makes compliance far easier to demonstrate.
Summit handles the infrastructure: monitoring, patching, backups, hardware, and support, all backed by 24/7 engineers and the customer portal for visibility. Your team keeps owning the applications while we keep the platform under them running.
Ready to get your servers out of the closet?
Tell us what you’re running on-prem. We’ll come back with a target design and a cost comparison within one business day.
