40 Petabytes of Data Migrated, Managed, and Consolidated with a Unified Unstructured Data Management Platform
for Fortune 20 financial services institution
Business Need
- Data Consolidation to bring consistency across a global footprint
- Implement global standardization
- Move 13 years of data from 6000 offices residing in legacy hardware to Data ONTAP Storage Platform
- Automation of migration process to reduce risks
Challenges Faced
- A massive expanse of unstructured data
- Lack of consistency across a global footprint
- Varying legacy standards as a result of multiple acquisitions
- Increasing storage cost
- Complexities in unstructured data management
- Risks in moving from legacy infrastructure to the new platform
Solution Offered
Data Dynamic’s Unified Unstructured Data Management Platform:
- A single platform to manage CIFS and NFS migrations from NAS platforms to NetApp Data ONTAP, ensuring data security and the migration without any risk
- Automation of the migration process by providing a means of updating the DFS links automatically
- The policy-based approach maximized user data access, minimized cutover windows, user downtime, and other disruptions related to file storage rebalancing, migrations, consolidations, and tech refreshes
- Data migration by consolidating their data centers and introducing effective data governance, intelligent data insights, and data lifecycle management in parallel
Business Impact
- Data consolidation resulted in driving global standardization for enhanced downstream automation, significantly improved efficiency as well as next-level risk management
- Migration of more than 40PBs of data distributed across 35,000 volumes on 876 filer nodes, delivering data location optimization, cost savings of over $37M, and data analysis
- This automated migration process ensured that the infrastructure deployed was consistent across all the data centers globally
- StorageX 8.5 enabled customers to manage and consolidate petabytes of data with a single pane of glass
