SANpulse Publishes Free White Paper Offering Checklist for a Smooth Data Migration

By Madhubanti Rudra

TMCnet Contributor

 

SANpulse Technologies, Inc. and its SANlogics solution are instantly recognizable names in data center industry. The company has recently published a free white paper called "Moving data successfully: Take 10 for a smooth transition to new storage". The company informed that the White Paper (News - Alert) provides useful resources for safe and smooth data migration.

 

At some point of their lifecycles, the companies need to upgrade or expand data storage space to meet with the needs of a growing business. While data migration is essential and can work for the benefit of the companies, they come with their own unique risks such as stalled applications, lost data, business disruptions, and immobilized end users. Storage migration involves often complex and time consuming procedures. In order to mitigate risk and ensure business continuity, the companies need to chalk out detailed plans prior to taking up data migration project. Since, data migration often prove to be highly demanding for an organization's internal IT resources and might have a negative effect on the overall storage solvency of the organization during the project, understanding the challenges in advance can ensure a smooth migration process. This understanding in turn helps in reducing costs. And the free white paper of SANpulse provides best practices for successfully transitioning data to new storage platforms.

 

The White Paper provides 10 steps -- six before, two during, and two after performing a migration -- to ensure success in data migration. According to the company, by following this guide, businesses can reduce errors, support successful migrations, shorten project timelines, and even help organizations come in under budget. Additional benefits can include the opportunity to complete related or long-overdue work such as systems consolidation, upgrades, or reorganization of IT structures.

 

In SANpulse' opinion, a few basic steps can make all the difference between good and bad results in data migration. According to SANpulse , IT professionals can get the most out of the process by creating a work breakdown structure (WBS) for each step and including it in a project database. It starts with ensuring that every activity planned, completed, changed, targeted and so on is included in a project database as a starting point of the project. Personnel conducting the migration will use this database to manage the entire process, from setting customer expectations to actually moving the data. It will be an all-in-one working document, project summary, and reconciliation tool. It will help measure efficiencies and more easily acquire and release resources as one moves through this common, yet complex, procedure.

 

"The faster you can move your new platform from the loading dock and into your IT infrastructure, the faster you'll be putting your investment to work and helping the business derive maximum value. Plan well, communicate clearly, follow these ten steps, and your team will be able to complete the migration more quickly, with minimal disruption, and most cost-effectively," Ralph Hennen, the white paper's author and the managing director of product development at SANpulse, explained.