96% reduction in customer outage time and 100% ROI in data center & storage migration
for one of the world’s largest Fortune 500 Healthcare Data Science Technology Company
Business Need
- Merger & Acquisition
- Tech Refresh
- Incompatible versions
- Heterogeneous Vendor Storage
- Data Migration and consolidation
Challenges Faced
- Mixed distinct data ownership on the same volume
- 24-hour outage windows for data migrations
- Complex data integration of acquired companies
- Security and access complexity creating data loss
- Massive penalties for invalidated clinical trial data – paid $0.5M+ in fines per occurrence
Solution Offered
- Use of automated, policy-based file data migration to ensure the right data was moved to the cloud
- Automation and standardization, using a unified platform – from 12 to 24-hour outrage during data transfer to one minute
- Accelerated data integration and migration of acquired companies to the master data center by reducing the complexity of unstructured data from arrays, separate ACLs, and different domains
- Intelligent data analysis to gain visibility and knowledge of the data, for data compliance, improved productivity, and 100% reduction in potential penalties
Business Impact
Data Dynamics’ unified data management platform helped the customer achieve:
- 96% reduction in customer outage and 100% ROI during data transfer
24-hour outage reduced to sub-hour - 97% improvement in data integration of acquired companies to the master
From 30 days to one day - Zero penalties related to invalidation of data
- Reduced cost of data migration