Accelerating cloud migration is a critical challenge for enterprises aiming to leverage the scalability and flexibility of cloud environments. Komprise, a leader in analytics-driven unstructured data management, offers solutions to streamline this process.
Understanding the Challenges
Traditional data migration methods often involve manual processes that are time-consuming and error-prone. This complexity can lead to extended migration timelines and increased costs. Additionally, managing large volumes of unstructured data, such as files and objects, requires careful planning to ensure data integrity and minimize disruptions.
Komprise’s Approach to Accelerating Cloud Migration
Komprise addresses these challenges with its Elastic Data Migration platform, which offers several key features:
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Comprehensive Data Analysis: Before migration, Komprise analyzes data across various storage systems to identify which datasets to move and determine the optimal cloud storage tiers. This ensures that only relevant data is migrated, optimizing both time and resources. (komprise.com)
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Hypertransfer Technology: Komprise’s Hypertransfer technology accelerates data transfer rates by up to 25 times compared to traditional methods. By minimizing network roundtrips and utilizing dedicated channels, Hypertransfer addresses the inefficiencies associated with protocols like SMB, which are commonly used for file transfers. (globenewswire.com)
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Automated Migration Processes: The platform automates complex tasks such as creating and mapping destination share hierarchies, and mapping user permissions based on customer-defined policies. This reduces manual intervention, minimizes errors, and speeds up the migration process. (globenewswire.com)
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Zero Cutover Downtime: Komprise ensures system availability during the final migration phase by allowing users and applications to add, modify, and delete data on the destination shares during the cutover period. This eliminates downtime, which is crucial for data-generating sources that cannot afford interruptions. (blocksandfiles.com)
- Transparent Data Tiering: The platform identifies cold data—data that is infrequently accessed—and transparently archives it to lower-cost cloud storage classes. This approach can reduce cloud storage costs by up to 70%, making cloud adoption more cost-effective. (blocksandfiles.com)
Real-World Applications
Komprise’s solutions have been successfully implemented across various industries:
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Healthcare: A hospital group migrated petabytes of SMB files from EMC Isilon to Qumulo, setting up approximately 400 migration jobs via APIs and migrating 278 million SMB files spanning nearly 1,500 shares in a few weeks. (komprise.com)
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Customer Service: A cloud contact center modernized and consolidated multiple active shares, successfully migrating 900 TB (1.2 billion files) across 135 shares. (komprise.com)
- Semiconductor Industry: A semiconductor company consolidated 30 data centers into eight, migrating 2.5 PB and 4.6 billion files from NetApp to Pure, and tiering 4 PB to Wasabi. (komprise.com)
Conclusion
Accelerating cloud migration requires a strategic approach that addresses the complexities of unstructured data management. Komprise’s Elastic Data Migration platform offers a comprehensive solution that combines data analysis, accelerated transfer technologies, automation, and cost-effective data tiering to facilitate a seamless transition to the cloud.
