Terabytes of data with permissions and transfer of ownership migrated intuitively using an unified data management software
For a leading IT services and consulting company
Business Need
- Mitigate challenges that arise during Partial acquisition of a company
- Need for a point solution for complex Data Migration
- Create a standardized solution to mitigate a ‘no trust’ AD scenario
- Ablility to migrate data intuitively (with permissions and transfer of ownership)
Challenges Faced
- Lack of structured approach to migrate data
- Lack of planning prior to data migration
- Tight project deadline
- Lack of knowledge about transferring ownership following a migration
- Data was moved using a free tool with permissions or ownership information of the parent AD (active directory)
- The free tool was not able to transfer the ownership
- The client had a number of such use cases in the pipeline
- Risk of losing the credibility and business due to the inability to transform the data at the destination
Solution Offered
Leverage Data Dynamic’s Unified Unstructured Data Management Software to:
- Migrate the existing data to a local share at the destination as data movement is a key step to achieving transformation
- As part of this process, provide the input of all the SIDs that need to be transformed into a set of separate SIDs for the destination AD
- Ensure seamless inline SID translation along with data migration.
- Create a standard solution that could be replicated to every customer to address a number of such use cases.
Business Impact
Process Improvement
- Provide a unified data management software for related use cases
- Eliminate all risks associated with different point solutions or free tools
- Established a forward-looking mindset that will assist the team in planning ahead
Cost Savings
- Automated migration and SID translation saved countless man-hours and manpower
- Penalties for project delays were avoided with a fast and reliable solution