Benefits of Data Migration.
Data Migration has been picking up demands in the last decade. Many IT consultants and MSPs are picking more and more projects that involve or revolve around data migration. This is due to the exponential growth of data and the reliance of using digitized documents.
What aided the growth of data is the fact storage has become cheaper and much more affordable where businesses find it better to add space or stand new systems than to ask employees to go and purge old or archived data for the sake of saving space.
This of course comes at a time where the only time businesses ask employees to purge old data as a way of improving performance (saves in the time it takes to run a search) or for organization purposes. This has made employees almost refrain from deleting files or taking any initiatives to be socially responsible when it comes to “digital” documents.
As a result of having an excessive number of possible duplicate files, the term of deduplication was born and it has become a very hot and demanded feature provided by SAN and NAS vendors.
This however did not remove the need of data migration which is ultimately the focus of the sysadmin. Due to the fact that data migration is not a daily task the IT professionals necessarily deploy on weekly or even monthly basis, there almost always the need to refresh memory or go through a learning curve to get the data migration staged and ready to go.
Data migration requires the use of a file migration software. This is where it starts branching out and becomes very puzzling every time someone looks for a file migration software solution. Whether to use a free or paid version. What features to use, and whether or not they work as advertised.
File migration software can turn into its own special field where experts in this domain may find a huge demand for possessing this trendy skill. It is without a doubt the surfacing of cloud and high demand of using them have increased the data migration needs ten folds.
As to which file migration software to use is a completely different beast. For smaller networks or small data replication jobs, use of Microsoft tool Robocopy can be useful and handy. It does have a lot of features and already built into windows. The main issue with Robocopy is the fact that it is command line which many IT professionals can find it intimidating, time wasting, and somewhat limited due to the fact it does not copy open files and in some situations, it may skip or error on copying on files but fails to report it. This could be very dangerous when it comes to data migration due to retiring old systems.
In large networks or larger sized jobs, performance is crucial as IT administrators need to deploy a fast copy migration software. A fast copy should be multithreaded, technique optimized so that it can handle the fastest copy method when dealing with small files and with large files. This however should be taken with caution as many of the file migration software solutions that advertise to be using fast copy file techniques could be doing it as they do not do any data integrity checks which would certainly make it faster to copy but it is not a good trade off as data integrity of migrated data is crucial to any migration (small or large).
What aided the growth of data is the fact storage has become cheaper and much more affordable where businesses find it better to add space or stand new systems than to ask employees to go and purge old or archived data for the sake of saving space.
This of course comes at a time where the only time businesses ask employees to purge old data as a way of improving performance (saves in the time it takes to run a search) or for organization purposes. This has made employees almost refrain from deleting files or taking any initiatives to be socially responsible when it comes to “digital” documents.
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This however did not remove the need of data migration which is ultimately the focus of the sysadmin. Due to the fact that data migration is not a daily task the IT professionals necessarily deploy on weekly or even monthly basis, there almost always the need to refresh memory or go through a learning curve to get the data migration staged and ready to go.
Data migration requires the use of a file migration software. This is where it starts branching out and becomes very puzzling every time someone looks for a file migration software solution. Whether to use a free or paid version. What features to use, and whether or not they work as advertised.
File migration software can turn into its own special field where experts in this domain may find a huge demand for possessing this trendy skill. It is without a doubt the surfacing of cloud and high demand of using them have increased the data migration needs ten folds.
As to which file migration software to use is a completely different beast. For smaller networks or small data replication jobs, use of Microsoft tool Robocopy can be useful and handy. It does have a lot of features and already built into windows. The main issue with Robocopy is the fact that it is command line which many IT professionals can find it intimidating, time wasting, and somewhat limited due to the fact it does not copy open files and in some situations, it may skip or error on copying on files but fails to report it. This could be very dangerous when it comes to data migration due to retiring old systems.
In large networks or larger sized jobs, performance is crucial as IT administrators need to deploy a fast copy migration software. A fast copy should be multithreaded, technique optimized so that it can handle the fastest copy method when dealing with small files and with large files. This however should be taken with caution as many of the file migration software solutions that advertise to be using fast copy file techniques could be doing it as they do not do any data integrity checks which would certainly make it faster to copy but it is not a good trade off as data integrity of migrated data is crucial to any migration (small or large).
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