Elastic Data Migration
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Smart, Fast, Proven File and Object Data Migration
No more labor-intensive, disruptive and dreaded data migrations. Whether migrating to the cloud, cloud NAS or to a NAS in your data center, with Komprise Elastic Data Migration you get the fastest, most predictable and cost-efficient data migration for file and object data. Elastic Data Migration includes Komprise Analysis and is included in the Komprise Intelligent Data Management platform or is available standalone. Don’t just lift and shift – learn more about analytics-first Smart Data Migration today.
Read the Guide to Unstructured Data Migration.
Analysis-First Unstructured Data Migration
SMART DATA MIGRATION: COMPREHENSIVE ANALYTICS BEFORE YOU MIGRATE
- Plan migrations with analytics of your data and your environment
- Know data by age, size, usage, costs, and ownership
- Know potential bottlenecks before they become issues
SHRINK MIGRATION TIME
- Auto parallelize at every level to maximize performance
- Minimize network usage to migrate efficiently over WANs
- Accelerate transfer of small files, overcome latency with Komprise Hypertransfer
- Migrate more than 27 times faster than generic tools like rsync for NFS workloads across heterogeneous clouds and storage
- Migrate 25 times faster than generic tools like Robocoby for SMB workloads even over WAN
MIGRATE NAS RELIABLY
- Auto retry if network or storage is unavailable
- Migrate with all file permissions, access control and data integrity intact
- Manage chain of custody reporting with checksums and integrity reporting per file.
- Thwart ransomware attacks by not using network access to cloud storage during migration
MIGRATE ACROSS CLOUDS
- Migrate data across public clouds (eg Azure, AWS and Wasabi)
- Protect from ransomware with a cloud-to-cloud copy for cyber-resiliency
- Cut 70%+ cloud data storage costs (compare to other cloud migration tools and map out your migration path for cloud storage).
MIGRATE FILE-TO-OBJECT
- Migrate files to inexpensive cloud or object storage for long-term archiving
- Preserves all NTFS permissions
- Create data lakes for AI and analytics
SIMPLIFY DATA MANAGEMENT
- Pick any source (NFS, SMB, Dual, Object) and choose your destination; Komprise does the rest
- Use the dashboard to monitor and manage hundreds of migrations
- Get status updates with reports and dashboards
ENSURE HIGH-PERFORMANCE
- Scale performance with elastic parallelism and load balancing across Komprise Observer virtual machines
- Minimize network usage to increase efficiency over high-latency networks
- Supercharge your cloud migrations with Hypertransfer
Faster File and Object Migration
With Komprise Elastic Data Migration you can run, monitor, and manage hundreds of data migrations faster than ever at a fraction of the cost.
- Elastic Parallelism: The Komprise architecture scales according to the parallelism of your data across shares, directories and files to maximize performance.
- WAN Optimized: Komprise minimizes network usage by reducing the number of requests over the network to migrate efficiently even over WANs.
- 27x Faster: Komprise migrates more than 27 times faster than generic tools across heterogeneous clouds and storage. NFS performance paper. SMB performance paper.
- Complete Solution: File-to-file and file-to-object migrations are all fully supported.
Migrate NAS Reliably
Komprise has extensive experience in migrating petabyte-scale data volumes from Isilon, NetApp and other NAS platforms to Qumulo, AWS, Azure, and other cloud file and object storage backed by world-class support.
- Maintain Full File Fidelity: Komprise migrates with all file permissions, access controls and data integrity intact with support for SMB, NFS, and dual protocol shares.
- MD5 Checksum Validation: Ensure data integrity with MD5 checksums on every file while maintaining migration performance.
- Adaptive: Komprise automatically retries if network or storage is unavailable so you don’t have to worry.
Migrate File-to-Object
Komprise supports both File-to-Object and Object-to-Object unstructured data migrations.
- Migrate File-to-Object: Komprise migrates from NAS to any object storage or S3 destination. Komprise supports migrations to both on-premises object and cloud destinations.
- Low-Cost Archive, Tagged Data Lake for AI: Create a low-cost copy for long-term data retention. Create an AI-ready data lake with indexing and tagging using Komprise Deep Analytics.
- Preserve File Metadata on Object: Preserves file system metadata and POSIX permissions, ACLs as you migrate.
Simplify Data Management
Komprise automatically moves data to secondary storage so that data always lives in the right place at the right time according to its age, usage or other parameters
- Ease of Use: Komprise is a hybrid SaaS solution that is easy to set up and easy to use.
- Intuitive Dashboards: Komprise dashboards and reports allow you to monitor and manage hundreds of simultaneous migrations and get status updates.
- API-Driven: With Komprise you can also perform or manage migrations through APIs, making it easy to integrate Komprise Smart Data Workflows into your processes.
Why Komprise Elastic Data Migration?
- Analyze Data and Network
- +25x Faster SMB, NFS, S3/Object
- Secure WAN Hypertransfer
- Full Fidelity & Chain of Custody
- UI and API-Driven
- Flexible Migration Options
- Auto-Parallelism, Scale Out
- No Cutover Surprises
- No Database Bottlenecks
- No Expensive Hardware
- No Expensive Licenses
- No Costly Manual Effort
- No Rehydration Needed
- No Chatty Slowdowns
Five Industry File and Object Data Migration Use Cases
Healthcare File Migration Case Study
Overview: A hospital group used API to migrate petabytes of SMB files from EMC Isilon access zones to Qumulo.
Results: Komprise set up approximately 400 migration jobs via scripting using the APIs, and in a few weeks migrated 278 million SMB files spanning nearly 1500 shares.
Details: The customer environment consists of EMC Isilon with multiple access zones and approximately 3000 shares for a total of roughly 4 PB of data. The organization was retiring older Isilon and moving data to Qumulo. Goals included simplifying operations with policy-driven data movement, analytics, and capacity management. Because of the number of shares and folders in the environment it was unrealistic to set up migrations one at a time via the UI, which led to Komprise recommending the API approach.
Customer Service File Migration Case Study
Overview: Cloud contact center modernizes and consolidates multiple active shares to non-empty destination.
Results: Successfully migrated 900 TB (1.2 billion files) across 135 shares to date.
Details: The customer environment consists of NetApp 8 & 9 Cluster Mode and Pure FlashBlade. The customer wanted to migrate 1PB from NetApp to Pure Storage, where the source is active and destination is not empty, a non-standard NAS migration path. This is a common use case for customers undergoing modernization and consolidation. Komprise did not propagate deletes from the source to target.
Semiconductor File Migration Case Study
Overview: Semiconductor data center consolidation effort involves moving petabytes of data internally and cloud tiering to Wasabi.
Results: Komprise migrated 2.5 PB and 4.6 billion files from NetApp to Pure and tiered 4PB to Wasabi.
Details: Company was consolidating 30 data centers down to eight in a NetApp environment with 27 PB of total data. Komprise migrated 10 PB of active or “hot” data to Pure NAS while tiering 17 PB of cold data to the cloud.
Public Sector File Migration Case Study
Overview: U.S. Government agency manages security via Komprise roles to migrate NFS and SMB files across sites.
Results: Komprise migrated more than 126 TB of data (560 million files) from Isilon to Qumulo.
Details: The customer environment consists of Pure FlashArray File Services and NetApp 7 with 500 TB, 475 shares, and a mix of NFS and SMB files. The project involved migrating data between strategic sites while adhering to stringent security and data encryption requirements. The customer leveraged Komprise Deep Analytics to allow authorized end users to tag data and IT to run the migrations.
Media & Entertainment File Migration Case Study
Overview: Large media company performed two migrations: moving object data from one cloud to another and file data from NAS to AWS.
Results: Komprise migrated petabytes of StorNextdata and 250 TB of cloud object data from Wasabi to Amazon S3.
Details: The customer environment spanned Wasabi Cloud for object data, Quantum StorNext for file data. The project required Komprise to migrate 250 TB of data from Wasabi to AWS S3 and petabytes of data from StorNext to AWS. The customer was able to analyze its object and file data to assist with selecting the appropriate AWS S3 tiers for the target, simplified in one solution.
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DIG DEEPER
What is cloud data migration?
Cloud data migration is the process of moving data from on-premises or one cloud environment to another. This could involve transferring data to a different cloud service provider, upgrading to a newer version of a cloud service, or consolidating data from multiple sources, typically on-premises, into a single cloud platform. Learn more.
What are some common barriers to unstructured data migrations 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. Data-heavy enterprises typically have petabytes of file data,
which can consist of billions of files scattered across different storage vendors, architectures and locations. And while file data growth is exploding, IT budgets are not. That’s why enterprises’ IT organizations are looking to migrate file workloads to the cloud. However, they face many barriers, which can cause migrations to take weeks to months and require significant manual effort. These include:
- Billions of files, mostly small
- Chatty protocols
- Large WAN latency
- Limited network bandwidth
Learn more about Hypertransfer for Komprise Elastic Data Migration.
What are the common cloud file migration options?
Cloud migration of file data can be complex, labor-intensive, costly, and time-consuming. Understanding your data migration options can help.
- Free Tools: Examples include rsync and robcopy for unstructured data migrations.
- Point Data Migration Solutions: Typically have complex legacy architectures and require significant professional services.
- 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 optimize cloud storage costs by placing cold data in object storage classes while maintaining file metadata so it can be promoted in the cloud as files when needed. Learn more about Smart Data Migrations.