MTI Create Migrate
Due to the exponential growth of data generated by companies and the continuous improvements in data storage hardware & software, IT organisations are in a constant state of change. In addition, storage platform optimisation, consolidation of system infrastructure, virtualisation, standardisation of platforms and the use of emerging technologies force IT professionals to constantly migrate data from one architecture to another. The critical process to migrate data is usually a separate project that is fundamental to the success of a larger infrastructure project. In the case of the data migration failure, the larger infrastructure project will be jeopardized.
Migration projects are extremely critical within organizations and for the global company infrastructure as these projects are responsible for handling the company's data assets. The impact of overruns or failures can be significant with negative financial consequences to the business as a result of lost productivity also reduced final customer confidence, loyalty and image. In the worst case scenarios data loss or corruption can be disastrous!
The duration of data migration projects are dependent on the volumes of data to migrate, migration tools and the infrastructure. Thus they are time dependent and must be executed when there will be minimal impact to the business. The causes of failure are usually an underestimation of time and a lack of required effort to perform the task.
As a data migration project can greatly disrupt ongoing business operations, some IT organisations postpone upgrades and technology refreshes.
MTI's Data Migration Services
A data migration project is a key process of moving data between storage devices when adopting any new storage system. MTI’s Data Migration Services are designed to help IT organisation to upgrade their system or migrate data from an existing infrastructure to another one. MTI’s Data Migration Services provide you with the resources and expertise to help you simplify and secure your data migration project. MTI’s experts reinforce your organisation to address concerns as, reduce complexity, avoid disruption, maintain performance and host availability and minimise business risk and impacts.
Unlike other projects such as integration or implementation projects, a data migration project will be executed, normally once, and then all the specific data migration environment and work will be retired when the new system goes live. It means that quite all resources involved on this project will be used once. MTI’s data migration experts will handle the global migration project, working closely with your organisation. They will build data migration management and governance policies that comply with your business needs and allow you to reach the awaited results with the absolute minimum risk, avoiding you to invest massively on a project that executes once.
MTI has developed for several years best practices and recognized methodologies for data migration processes. We are used to working on critical and heterogeneous environments, which is the case in all the data migration projects. Depending on the customer's architecture and technologies, MTI’s experts will use various approaches to reduce operation disruptions and be sure that the migration project will be performed within the allotted time frame and avoid any negative impact on the business.
Data Optimisation Phase
The data migration of an architecture of storage towards another is a real opportunity to include scoping and data profiling or a data quality assessment or a Data cleaning phase. These additional operations allow an opportunity to optimise application execution. Storage Data Classification, Data placement will optimize SAN & NAS environment, decrease the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and improve the level of services. In addition, the Tiering of Storage coming from data classification will largely improve the Business Continuity setup process through the Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP).
MTI Data Availability Commitment
All phases and tasks of a data migration project need to be robust, reliable, scalable and secure. MTI define for each migration a data migration plan that includes all the necessary information for each task of the project, complete planning and precise timing for each operation and the “fail back procedure”.
The MTI fail back procedure makes it possible to guarantee the availability of the data in the event of problem occurring during the migration. Starting from a certain point in time “the recovery point” the procedure of fail back is engaged so presenting data as it was prior to start of the migration process.
At the end of the migration phase, a strong data verification process is performed to ensure there is no data corruption or unavailability, running both systems to identify possible erroneous data. Thus, this phase prevents business disruption.
MTI Data Migration key benefits
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MTI's Data Migration Methodology
MTI Expertise
MTI’s core expertise is based upon its manufacturing heritage and more than 20 years of operating in the storage and technology industry. Over this period, MTI’s staff have developed key Infrastructure Solutions and the service philosophy which is at the core of MTI’s business operation. MTI’s business is built on the following key capabilities:
- Specialist In House Expertise & Knowledge
- Project Management capability
- Managed Services capability
- Proven Track Record
- Unique Business processes
- Solution Testing Capability
- Customer focus & service (24x7x52)
- Vendor Independence
- Industry Best Practice
- Highest level of certification with our key partners
These skills, knowledge base and work practices enable MTI to understand a customers business and IT problems. Then design, implement, test, service and maintain the right solution for the right business requirements.
Key Partners
MTI’s key partner relationships with the leading Infrastructure technology companies, allows MTI to extend its key competence and capability to deliver infrastructure solutions that enhance the storage and storage related solutions it delivers to its EMEA customer base. These relationships capitalise on the partners market leading positions, world class technology, geographical coverage and services led solutions. The combination of these skills ensures MTI delivers world class solutions designed to meet its customers unique requirements.
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