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Data Migration Solutions
Move files between devices--without downtime and without affecting users
You might need to perform data migration--the process of moving data between storage devices--for any number of reasons, including file server or Network Attached Storage (NAS) consolidations, lease rollovers, platform upgrades, and vendor transitions. These migrations are often costly, time-consuming, and disruptive, and they almost always require service outages and manual reconfiguration of client systems and applications.
F5's intelligent file virtualization solution enables file-based data migration without downtime and without complex reconfiguration. Data migrations can take place automatically, online, and without disrupting your business.
Why do I need file-based data migration?
Business benefits of using F5 for file-based data migration include:
- No client reconfiguration required.
This can reduce migration times by as much as 90%, speeding upgrades, consolidations, and storage platform changes. - No impact on user access.
Powerful policies can automate the movement of entire file systems or just individual files between heterogeneous storage devices for both NFS and CIFS-oriented data. - Reduced operational overhead.
A result of streamlining migration with automated data movement. - No need for stubs, pointers, or log files for data movement.
These can reduce availability and add complexity to the backup and restore window.
Top Case Studies
- Lulu.com Takes Control of Storage Environment and Improves Vendor Management with File Virtualization
- File virtualization yields big gains in efficiency for major financial firm
- Shopzilla rings up big data management and operational efficiencies
- Warner Music Group boosts production, improves operational efficiencies
- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation implements information lifecycle management
- Toshiba America Electronic Components completes large-scale NAS upgrade
- Financial institution profits with policy-based data management
- Foster and Partners reduces costs and improves operational efficiencies
- Global rental company speeds major NAS upgrade, enhances disaster recovery
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Migrate huge amounts of data non-disruptively with solutions from F5
How do I implement file-based data migration?
When you use intelligent file virtualization to implement a data migration plan, you virtualize your file storage environment. This eliminates the rigid mapping between clients and physical file location, and creates a logical representation of file content. This virtualized environment lets you streamline and automate file movement between storage devices--even devices from different vendors--so migrations can take place without affecting the way client drives are mapped.
What F5 offerings do I need for a data migration solution?
F5 ARX® intelligent file virtualization devices make the physical location of files irrelevant in terms of file access. These devices provide a rich set of management policies that simplify data migration and reduce disruptions and operational costs. F5 solutions also eliminate "vendor lock-in," so you can choose the storage technology you need based on business and IT requirements.
