The Easy, Fast, No Lock-In
Path to the Cloud
Why Move File Data to the Cloud
Unstructured data is everywhere. From genomics and medical imaging to streaming video, electric cars, and IoT products, all sectors generate unstructured file data. While file data growth is exploding, IT budgets are not. That’s why enterprises need to migrate file workloads to the cloud. However, there are ample considerations.
Cloud Data Migrations Require Planning and Analytics
File data can be petabytes of data and billions of files. Migrating this much unstructured data to the cloud takes time and can be disruptive. Understanding your data and properly planning your cloud migrations will eliminate disruption and unintended costs. Komprise analyzes across your storage to help you understand data usage and growth and plan the right migration strategy to cloud storage or cloud NAS.
But not all data migration and cloud data tiering solutions are the same.
Read White Paper: Why Data Growth is Not a Storage Problem
Know Your Options
Two Approaches for Moving to the Cloud
Lift-and-Shift Cloud File Migration
Migrate entire file shares and directories to the cloud. Komprise Elastic Data Migration uses analytics to plan and migrate 27 times faster while minimizing cutover. And, with Komprise, you can readily migrate from one primary vendor to another without rehydrating all the archived data, so migrations are cheaper and faster.
Cloud Data Tiering as a First Cloud File Migration Step
Since 80% of file data is cold and has not been used in a year or more, tiering and archiving cold data is a smart first cloud file migration step – especially if you use Transparent Move Technology so users can access the files exactly as before. You can follow this up by migrating the remaining hot data to a performance cloud tier.
Not All Approaches Are the Same
Migrate 27x Faster with Elastic Data Migration
If you are doing a lift-and-shift of entire file data sets to the cloud, you need a reliable, fast data migration solution. Komprise uses analytics to intelligently migrate files 27 times faster than others with no sunk costs.
Cut 75%+ Cloud Costs with File-Based Cloud Tiering
Alternatively, you can do a phased migration using cloud data tiering to transparently archive the 80% of cold data to the cloud. Storage vendors tier to the cloud but create 75% higher cloud egress costs and lock-in. Gateways copy data to the cloud but lock-in the data and have 300% higher ongoing costs.
Read White Paper: File vs Block Cloud Tiering
Cloud Data Migration Choices
Cloud migration of file data can be complex, labor-intensive, costly, and time-consuming. Understanding your migration options can help.
Free Tools: Require a lot of babysitting and do not reliably migrate the data.
Point Data Migration Solutions: Have complex legacy architectures and create sunk costs.
Komprise Elastic Data Migration: Makes cloud data migrations simple, fast, reliable and eliminates sunk costs since you continue to use Komprise after the migration. Komprise is the only solution that gives you the option to cut 70%+ cloud storage costs by placing cold data in Object classes while maintaining file metadata so it can be promoted in the cloud as files when needed.
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| Free Tools | Point Migration Tools | Komprise Cloud File Migration | ||||
| Modern Architecture |
Legacy |
Legacy |
Cloud – Elastic Parallelism |
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| Easy UI |
Limited |
Modern Design |
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| API |
Maybe |
Yes |
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| Analytics & Migration Planning |
Some |
Comprehensive |
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| NFS Support (including NFS 4.1) | ||||||
| SMB 2.1+ | ||||||
| Cold Data on Object with Full File Fidelity | ||||||
| Cloud Storage Costs | $$$ | $$$ | 70% Lower | |||
| Global File Index and Tagging | ||||||
| Ongoing Data Management | ||||||
| Cost | Free, but tedious | $$$$ | $$ | |||
Read White Paper: Accelerate NAS and Cloud Data Migrations
Cloud Tiering Choices
Cloud tiering and archiving of file data can save you millions by offloading unused cold data to cost-efficient cloud storage. But, the approach you use can either create an easy path to the cloud with full use of data in the cloud or it can create costly cloud egress and lock-in.
Built-in Storage Tiering Solutions: Lock data in a proprietary block format which results in 75% higher cloud egress costs and lock-in.
Cloud Storage Gateways: Require all access to flow through them, creating 300% higher licensing costs in perpetuity and an unnecessary bottleneck.
Komprise’s File-Driven Cloud Tiering: Moves cold data to the cloud and users will never know the difference. Plus, you always have full native access to your data in the cloud.
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| Approach | Storage-Based | Gateways | File-Based Cloud Tiering | |||
| Eliminates Lock-In | ||||||
| Leverages Existing Infrastructure | ||||||
| Minimizes Cloud Egress Costs | ||||||
| Works Across File Storage | ||||||
| Users Access Moved Data without Disruption | ||||||
| Native Access in the Cloud | ||||||
| Eliminates Third-Party Licensing Costs in Cloud | ||||||
| Enables ongoing Lifecycle Mgmt in the Cloud | ||||||
| Ideal Use Cases | Tier Snapshots from Flash | Global File System | Tier and Archive Cold Files to the Cloud | |||
Read White Paper: Cloud Tiering: Storage-Based vs Gateways vs File-Based
Save on Storage with Komprise
“Software That Automates and Controls On-Prem Storage Costs and Cloud Data Tiering.”
75%
Cut on Cloud Tiering Egress Costs
Komprise analysis shows that on a petabyte of data, storage-array cloud tiering solutions create 75% higher cloud egress charges than necessary across sequential reads, random reads and defragmentation.
300%
Cut on Cloud Gateways Costs
Cloud storage gateways can result in 300% higher annual costs than using a file-level data management solution. They can be an effective backup strategy but don’t make sense for migrations.
Why Enterprise IT Loves Komprise Intelligent Data Management
At Komprise our mission is smarter, faster data management—no stubs, no agents, open standards, native data access everywhere. Analyze, mobilize, and manage unstructured data at any scale across your storage and clouds—without lock-in.
Analytics
Know first and make smarter investment decisions.
Cloud Tiering
Right size your data – right place, right time. No lock-in.
Data Migration
27X faster than point solutions and free tools.
No Lock-in
Maintain control and native data access everywhere.
Komprise Strategic Partners
Komprise is a preferred data migration partner for AWS and Azure. Komprise has strategic alliances with Pure Storage, IBM, and HPE and we have deep integrations for Google, Cohesity, Dell EMC, NetApp, Nutanix, Qumulo, Wasabi and more. Don’t compromise. Komprise.
