• Overview
• Data Migration - Non Disruptive
• Automated Storage Provisioning for Application Growth
• Data Copy Services Using Lower Cost Storage
• Data Protection Using D2D2T
• Business Benefits

Data Migration Solution - Non Disruptive

Data Center Challenges

Providing online data migration services is one of the most important requirements in the data center today. Since enterprise data migrations are occurring constantly, each one requires extensive planning, preparation, and execution. Plus they require significant IT personnel, time, and more often than not, expensive professional services. Data migrations is "one of," if not the biggest, challenge in the data center which is compounding annually. Typical ongoing data migration projects/tasks that your data center faces include:

• Storage systems scheduled for decommissioning and integration: [+] learn more
  
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  Most enterprise data centers decommission and commission storage systems on an ongoing basis. It typically takes 3-to-6 months or longer to decommission a storage system and commission its replacement. This means the systems overlap during that time period. It also means the company is paying for duplicate systems, duplicate maintenance, duplicate leasing or amortization, and duplicate infrastructure during the overlap - overall, a very significant expense.
• Moving data between storage tiers: [+] learn more
  
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  when policy calls for data to be moved from expensive tier-1 storage to lower cost storage systems (tiers), the data must be migrated. Most of these data migrations are incredibly time consuming and application disruptive.
• Consolidating application data onto a single storage system: [+] learn more
  
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  The purpose of this data migration is to increase application data availability and reliability by reducing failure domains. When application data is spread across multiple storage systems there is a higher probability of application data failures. If a storage system where the data resides fails, all of the data becomes inaccessible. Consolidating application data on a single storage system reduces the probability of failure. This means ongoing data migrations that are time consuming and personnel intensive. This expense is quite high.
• Ad-hoc data migrations: [+] learn more
  
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  data migrations are used to eliminate resource contention that results from application growth, improve application performance, or to facilitate data center moves.

Incipient Software - Solution

By using Incipient software to provide centralized online data migration services, many expenses disappear. These include expenses associated with planning, the application disruptions, time consumption, and professional services. All data migrations are performed online which allows the applications continuous uninterrupted access to their data.

Online data migration performed by Incipient software solves one of the biggest pain points in the enterprise data center today.

Incipient Software - Payback (ROI)

Online data migration performed by Incipient software offer many savings that are directly attributable to the ability to move data without impacting your operations. Quantifiable savings will be realized in the following areas:

• Decrease data migration time and effort: (a reduction in OpEx). Reduced time and operating expenses comes from a greatly shortened planning window. The shortened window is a direct result of no longer having to schedule and coordinate downtime because the data migrations are online and non-disruptive. Additionally, Incipient software reduces the number of people (system admins, DBAs, application users, etc.) who in the past, were required in the planning process. Eliminating the process to update host software and its configurations; reducing SAN configuration changes; and containing changes to the storage administrator's domain all increase your savings.
• Reduce and often eliminate costly professional services (OpEx savings) because it is simple to use and "online".
• Significantly reduce overlap between storage systems in transition (old and new storage systems). The reduction in overlap increases storage asset utilization and decreases overlap costs, which reduce capital expenditures (CapEx). "Online" data migrations execute without time restrictions or windows of opportunity, which reduces overlap time. You will see savings from reduced lease, maintenance and/or amortization overlap.
• Create far more effective utilization of tiered storage, thus reducing capital expenditures (CapEx). The software matches and migrates applications to the most cost-effective storage tier while permitting users to choose to balance cost versus performance.
• Eliminate application downtime associated with data migration reducing OpEx.

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