Looking for the best cloud migration tool for your upcoming transition to a new storage provider? With many options available, it can be difficult to sort through the right tool for the job. This blog post highlights essential features to consider when evaluating cloud storage migration tools, and underscores why DryvIQ stands out as the best choice for enterprises migrating unstructured data.
The Importance of Choosing the Right Cloud Migration Tool for Unstructured Data
Unstructured data (emails, documents, images, and videos for example) is now estimated to make up 90% of all enterprise data. Due to the complex nature of this data, there are numerous considerations when planning your migration. Factors like overall data volume, file types and sizes, file naming conventions, and important file-related data like ownership, versions, timestamps, access rights, and other attributes that can impact the success of the file transfer. Choosing the right tool can mean the difference between a smooth, seamless migration and a chaotic mess, rife with data loss and unexpected downtime.
Beyond simply moving the content from one platform to another, choosing the appropriate cloud migration tool helps streamline data organization and accessibility, strengthen security and compliance, and enhance overall business operations. It allows IT professionals to focus on strategic tasks rather than getting bogged down by technical issues that can crop up during a file migration project. Ultimately, the right cloud migration tool is indispensable for maintaining business continuity during this crucial aspect of digital transformation.
What to Look for in a Cloud Migration Tool
File Migration Speed & Scalability
Speed is a critical factor in enterprise file migration, especially when dealing with large volumes of unstructured data. A slow migration process can result in extended and unexpected downtime, affecting business operations. Speedy transfers are essential for maintaining productivity and avoiding costly delays.
In many cases, organizations are migrating to a new cloud platform before a potentially costly renewal with their existing vendor. A delayed or extended transition period increases the risk of doubling storage costs by paying for both platforms simultaneously.
Look for tools that offer high-speed transfers without compromising data integrity. This will eliminate the need to devote time and resources to testing, validation, and error remediation. Additionally, a shorter cutover period makes it easier for users to quickly adapt and utilize the new cloud environment.
Scalability is another vital feature to consider. A true enterprise migration tool must be equipped to scale migration speeds up and down to meet the business’s needs. For example, the ability to slow the migration down during core business hours so that other critical infrastructure and network speed is not impacted, while running at full speed during off hours and over weekends to ensure migration deadlines are met.
Investing in a high-speed and scalable cloud migration tool saves critical time and resources, boosting the overall success of the migration project.
Breadth and Depth of Integrations
Your cloud migration tool should offer extensive integrations and compatibility with various data repositories and cloud platforms. This includes cloud services like AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, as well on-premises network file systems and enterprise content management systems and cloud-based file repositories like Box, Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft 365. Robust integration capabilities streamline the migration process, ensuring compatibility and ease of use.
It is rare for an organization to only have one storage repository in use. Having a tool with different integrations allows you to consolidate data from multiple sources into a unified cloud storage environment. This can greatly reduce storage costs while enabling better access and management of critical data.
Depth of integration is equally important. It ensures that the migration tool can easily manage specific data types and formats, and accommodating the differences between platforms. As an example could be adjusting user permissions or transforming file names when each platform manages those differently. A well-integrated cloud migration tool enables a more efficient migration experience with fewer file transfer errors.
AI-Powered Data Discovery and Classification
When it comes to the sheer volume and variety of unstructured data that organizations are dealing with, AI-powered migration solutions with discovery and classification capabilities can be a game changer. These capabilities empower organizations to automatically identify and organize data based on their contents and metadata. As a result, the migration is much more impactful than simply moving content from one place to another.
Intelligent data discovery also helps identify redundant, obsolete, or trivial data, providing insights that enable organizations to reduce their storage costs and data footprint by deleting unnecessary data instead of migrating it.
Why DryvIQ is the Best Tool for Unstructured Data
Unmatched Speed and Scale
DryvIQ excels in delivering high-speed data transfers, ensuring minimal downtime and disruption to business operations. It automatically scales up and down to optimize the migration process, providing a seamless and efficient transition.
The DryvIQ platform supports over 3,200 parallel thread writes, enabling the migration of over 100 terabytes of unstructured data daily. This unmatched speed and scale facilitate large-scale migration initiatives, including self-service, tenant-to-tenant, and collaborative content migrations.
Extensive Integration Capabilities
DryvIQ’s cloud migration tool supports virtually any enterprise use case, starting with connecting to all major file repositories. The platform’s out-of-the-box connectors and connector API deeply integrate with any cloud service, on-premises storage system, ECM platform or any business application that produces, consumes, or stores unstructured data.
The DryvIQ platform both reads and writes commands to these systems, enabling permissions, labeling, and other transformative actions to ensure a seamless cloud migration with minimal file transfer errors.
DryvIQ’s system developer toolkit (SDK) also allows for the customization and extension of platform capabilities. This flexibility enables integration with other software and third-party solutions, including DLP and AI technologies.
AI-Powered Data Management
DryvIQ employs advanced artificial intelligence to manage unstructured data, facilitating continuous data scanning, classification, and analysis across all data repositories. This patented AI powers DryvIQ’s Intelligent Migration methodology that not only moves data but also discovers and organizes it. Once sorted, it determines which files are essential and which can be archived or deleted. This approach ensures efficient data migration with minimal business disruption.
Much more than a rudimentary cloud migration tool, DryvIQ’s intelligent data management platform provides enterprises the ability to access, analyze, and take action across all their unstructured data repositories. This empowers them to overcome information silos, providing complete visibility and control over unstructured data via a single pane of glass.
More than a Decade of Migration Success
Combining DryvIQ’s field-proven enterprise file migration platform with deep expertise in data management, we’ve helped thousands of customers across the globe achieve their cloud migration strategy objectives – migrating large volumes of unstructured data at unparalleled speed and scale.
Read how organizations like AstraZeneca, Forbes, Indiana University and others have partnered with DryvIQ to successfully migrate to a more effective cloud environment. Learn from the best with our collection of cloud migration success stories.
Partner with the Global Leader in Cloud Storage Migration
Choosing the right cloud migration tool is crucial for successfully managing and migrating unstructured data. With its unparalleled speed, scalability, extensive integration capabilities, and AI-powered data management functions, DryvIQ stands out as the best choice for enterprise migration.
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