Case Study: a Fortune 500 multinational mining company migrates 250 TB to Azure File Share in 16 days with Data Dynamics StorageX

250 terabytes of data moved to Azure File Share in 16 days for FREE

A Fortune 500 multinational mining company faced the challenge of consolidating two expensive on-premise data centers to save on high capital and operational costs. Their primary hurdles involved migrating 250 terabytes of unstructured data, 84% of which was cold, with minimal business disruption. To accomplish this, the company utilized Data Dynamics and their StorageX platform through the Azure File Migration Program.

The solution from Data Dynamics provided an automated, policy-based migration that moved the massive dataset to Azure File Share. The results were significant, with Data Dynamics completing the migration of millions of files in just 16 days at no cost to the customer. This enabled the company to achieve its goals of enhanced data management, cost savings on data center operation, and a 3X faster migration process with improved efficiency.