Data Migration

Data migration is the process of moving data from one location to another, one format to another, or one application to another.

Data migration is important because it is a necessary component to upgrading or consolidating server and storage hardware, or adding data-intensive applications like databases, data warehouses, and data lakes, and large-scale virtualization projects. Data migration may also occur within systems built on HDD or SDD, or between in-house systems and cloud storage.

These days, data migrations are often started as firms move from on-premises infrastructure and applications to cloud-based storage and applications to optimize or transform their company.

Types of Data Migrations

There are numerous business advantages to upgrading systems or extending a data center into the cloud. For many firms, this is a very natural evolution. Companies using cloud are hoping that they can focus their staff on business priorities, fuel top-line growth, increase agility, reduce capital expenses, and pay for only what they need on demand.

Storage migration

Storage Migration is a function that migrates the volume data from an old storage system to volumes in a new storage system without using a host in cases such as when replacing a storage system.

Storage Migration provides two data migration methods: online & offline. With offline, operations must be stopped in the storage systems during a data migration and with online, the data can be migrated while performing operations.

Cloud Migration

Cloud migration is the process of moving data, applications or other business elements to a cloud computing environment. There are various types of cloud migrations an enterprise can perform.

The process of moving data, application, or other business elements from either an on-premises data center to a cloud or from one cloud to another. In many cases, it also entails a storage migration.

Application Migration

Application migration is the process of moving an application program from one environment to another. May include moving the entire application from an on-premises IT center to a cloud, moving between clouds, or simply moving the application's underlying data to a new form of the application hosted by a software provider.