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Reducing Costs and Risks for Data Migrations

Data migration best practices and recommended storage system-based data migration techniques.

Forrester 2007 research has shown that in excess of 70 percent of enterprise IT budgets is devoted to maintaining existing infrastructure. Organizations need to accelerate innovation and reduce operating expenses to increase their competitiveness or maintain their current market position, CIOs are under pressure to identify and adopt best practices to lower their IT operating expenses and redirect the savings in support of new investments.

Major drivers of growing data center operating expenses include ongoing power, cooling and labor costs. IT organisations are in a constant flux, handling change management due to storage growth, consolidations, mergers and acquisitions, vendor product life cycles, and interoperability and supportability requirements. For example, most enterprise IT shops have to plan for their storage platforms’ end of life and migration before the end of the four to five years of the storage product’s useful life. This white paper is intended to provide IT decision makers with information on costs, risks and considerations regarding the migration of data from old storage platforms to new storage to reduce this significant area of operating expenses.

Reducing Costs and Risks for Data Migrations (PDF, 1.9MB)