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HOMOGENEOUS DATA MIGRATION
KEY BENEFITS
Reduce time to production. With our
Homogeneous Data Migration Services,
you’ll save valuable time and resources.
Free your internal resources. Your staff
can focus on your core business instead
of trying to plan, execute, and manage
your migration effort.
Minimize disruption and risk. Our
experienced data migration specialists
utilize a broad range of tools and
methodologies that focus on minimizing
disruption, maximizing availability of data,
and minimizing risk, regardless of the
complexity of your storage environment.
Optimize your storage infrastructure.
As part of our comprehensive service,
we will provide valuable recommendations
for performance improvements, capacity
optimization, and power consumption
reduction.
Incorporate leading technologies and
methodologies. NetApp best practices
and field-proven technologies and tools
will be fully leveraged to meet the require-
ments of your data migration project.
Leverage our expertise. Our highly
trained Professional Services staff has
extensive NetApp hardware and software
certifications, best-in-class enterprise
storage architecture experience, and
deep project management skills.
SERVICES
Minimize risk, minimize time to production, and optimize your storage
infrastructure by turning to NetApp storage professionals for comprehensive
data migration services
THE CHALLENGE:
Migrating Data in a NetApp Storage
Environment
In today’s IT environments, business
needs often outgrow the capabilities or
supportability of existing storage systems
over the data lifecycle. When data grows
beyond the capacity of existing storage
systems, it creates other problems such
as obsolescence of storage systems,
rising maintenance costs, and a constant
change in IT operational processes and
activities to accommodate this growth.
Regardless of the cause, the processes
of moving data to a new NetApp storage
system and then redirecting all I/O to the
new system are inherently disruptive and
potentially risky. Downtime can cause a
significant negative impact on your finan-
cial bottom line. What’s more, business,
technical, and operational requirements
impose challenging restrictions on the
migration process itself. Add to that the
resource demands placed on your staff,
CPU cycles, and bandwidth—as well as
risk factors such as performance impact
on production environments, technical
incompatibilities, and potential data
corruption or loss—and it’s easy to
see why data migration has become
one of the greatest challenges faced by
information technology staff members.
THE SOLUTION:
NetApp Homogeneous Data
Migration Services
Our Professional Services staff has
helped thousands of customers world-
wide successfully migrate data. We deliver
leading technologies, methodologies, and
expertise that complement every phase
of your migration project. We help reduce
the burden on your internal resources and
minimize disruption to your business.
Our approach considers several key
factors that can make the difference
between success and failure in any
migration project:
Planning. Although the ultimate goal
of a migration is to move data, a lot of
upfront planning is required to ensure the
migration is successfully executed with
minimum impact and disruption to the
production environment.
NetApp understands that data is your
business’s most critical asset, so NetApp
Professional Services works with key
company stakeholders—IT, database and
system administrators, business owners,
and security and compliance groups—to
understand the technical, business, and
operational requirements that must be fac-
tored into the planning and to minimize the
impact on operations during the migration.
Another key component of the planning
phase is analysis of your existing storage
architecture, which allows the design of
the newly established storage systems
to be optimized for your business needs.
We will advise you on how to make the
best use of NetApp technologies and best
practices to maximize storage utilization
and performance. The end result of
the planning phase is a comprehensive
migration plan that functions as the
blueprint for migration execution.
Project management. Proper
management plays a crucial role in the
efficient execution and completion of
any migration project. NetApp project
managers work with you throughout
the entire migration project lifecycle,
creating the initial statement of work
and the project plan, providing progress
reports, and communicating issues and
recommending alternative solutions.
Experience. From years of migration
experience—fine-tuning procedures,
learning to recognize common pitfalls,
and developing workarounds—NetApp
Professional Services has developed
proficiency, field-proven methodologies,
and tools that ensure a successful
migration.
Methodology. The NetApp migration
methodology is a comprehensive, five-
step process designed to handle the most
complex migration scenarios and execute
the right migration strategy for your
environment.
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The migration process encompasses storage deployment, or want to optimize
the following five steps: your existing infrastructure, trained
NetApp Professional Services personnel
· Delivery startup phase
have the skills to get the job done and
· Detailed design phase ensure your success. NetApp offers a
· Delivery implementation phase portfolio of related services, including:
· Solution testing phase · SAN Implementation Services
· Delivery closeout phase · SAN Heterogeneous Data Migration
SERVICE DELIVERABLES Services
The following deliverables are provided as · ReplicatorX™ Implementation Services
part of the NetApp Homogeneous Data · Rapid Deployment Services
Migration Service: · Backup and Recovery Design and
· Statement of work, which defines the Implementation Services
scope of the project, identifies major · Disaster Recovery Design and
tasks and responsibilities, and provides Implementation Services
a schedule and solution pricing · VTL Design and Implementation Services
· Build document, which outlines how the · Implementation Services for Microsoft®
migration was executed and serves as a Exchange
blueprint for rebuilding the environment,
· Implementation Services for Microsoft
if required
SQL Server™
PRICING · Implementation Services for Oracle®
Data Migration Services pricing is based
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