Data migrations can be one of the most complex and costly IT challenges enterprises face today. And when it comes to unstructured data, moving billions of files isn’t just a technical hurdle – it requires careful planning, the right mapping of permissions, strong governance and automation. Too often, migrations exceed budgets and timelines due to manual processes and inevitable errors.
At Komprise, we’ve always focused on simplifying unstructured data management, with an analytics-driven approach that is more cost-effective and transparent. Komprise Elastic Data Migration Spring 2025 delivers powerful new capabilities to further streamline and automate complex file and object data migrations.
Smarter, Faster, and More Transparent Data Migrations
Our latest enhancements tackle some of the most time-consuming aspects of unstructured data migrations head-on, reducing manual effort while improving compliance and governance.
Automatic Creation and Mapping of Destination Shares
One of the biggest challenges in data migrations is setting up the destination storage to mirror the source hierarchy. Traditionally, IT teams must manually create and map thousands of shares, often leading to delays and inconsistencies – especially in organizations where centralized storage teams support multiple departments with their own unique structures.
Komprise now automatically creates and maps destination shares, preserving source hierarchies for full transparency and compliance. This automation eliminates tedious setup work while reducing the risk of misconfigurations. With this feature, IT can create multiple migrations simultaneously and customize them to run at a specific time. Watch demo on our YouTube channel.
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Enhanced Chain of Custody Reporting
Regulated industries and enterprises with stringent compliance requirements need complete visibility into their data movements. Komprise now automatically creates chain-of-custody reports which consolidate and track every file migration, computing checksums at both the source and destination and logging timestamps for full transparency. With these detailed reports, IT teams can easily provide evidence of successful migrations to auditors, compliance officers, and business stakeholders. Chain of custody reports can be generated and stored in a central location, such as a NAS file server or S3 buckets.
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Automated User and Permission Mapping
IT teams often spend countless hours manually updating file ownership and group permissions when moving data. Our new automated security identifier (SID) mapping feature lets customers define policies that automatically translate and apply the correct permissions in the target storage. IT can also use this feature to define mappings for handling orphaned files during a migration. This not only saves time but also minimizes manual errors that could lead to compliance issues.
Transparent Share Mapping for Tiering
Komprise Intelligent Data Management platform customers typically implement what we call a Smart Data Migration, whereby cold data is identified for tiering to lower-cost storage before a migration, dramatically reducing cost by ensuring the right data is at the right place at the right time. Komprise now supports transparent one-to-one mapping from file shares to object storage buckets, which supports data governance and compliance. This feature is also valuable for AI data workflows, as it ensures data lineage visibility.
Expanding our Data Migration Partnerships
Komprise Elastic Data Migration is the preferred solution for moving large-scale unstructured data workloads across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. From storage vendors to cloud hyperscalers to value added reseller (VAR) partners, our growing list of partnerships validates our leadership in enterprise data mobility.
“With IT budgets tightening and enterprises facing increased costs due to supply chain and tariff pressures, IT leaders need ways to save money and optimize operations. Data migrations are often an expensive and high-risk undertaking, but Komprise is helping IT leaders take control with automation, insights, and governance-driven reporting.”–Komprise President and COO Krishna Subramanian
Check out the following resources to learn more about Komprise Elastic Data Migration:
• Guide to Unstructured Data Migration
• Unstructured Data Migration Video Series
Want to get started with Komprise Elastic Data Migration and Intelligent Data Management? Schedule a demo today.
