Case Study: Fortune 50 Financial Institution achieves minimal-disruption petabyte migration with Data Dynamics StorageX

Fortune 50 Financial Institution reduces cutover downtime to a fraction with Data Dynamics

A fortune 50 financial institution faced the challenge of migrating petabytes of data to an EMC Isilon platform as a secondary NAS solution. Their key challenges included performing the migration with minimal disruption, avoiding contention during replication, and ensuring the accurate copying of security permissions across platforms. To solve this, the customer selected Data Dynamics and utilized their StorageX migration solution.

Supported by Data Dynamics, the solution provided a single pane of view for the migration, the ability to set Quality of Service to minimize client impact, and centralized management for global consistency. The results included a significantly reduced outage window for the final cutover and ensured continuous data availability for millions of users while all data was being migrated.