There is constant growth in the amount of data a company both produces and stores. With data growth, comes management complexity. In order to cope with these two challenges, it is quite normal for organisations to upgrade their backup hardware and software solutions.
New tape drive technologies offer performance and capacity advantages, keeping burgeoning backup windows in check, and reducing the costs of storing offline copies of data. Advances in backup software address challenges in the complexity of backup data management.
With each change of backup hardware and/or software, a legacy of older data remains in a format that may not be compatible with your new solution. Corporate governance increases emphasis on both retaining access to legacy data and the ability to retrieve and present it in a timely manner. For best practice, data stored in archival tape and backup software formats should be made current through a migration process to your new solution.
The migration of backup media is complex and can involve a number of different elements, dependent on the exact nature of the project. Most companies that attempt their own legacy data migrations run projects that go on for many many months, or never actually complete.
SpectrumData can convert data from legacy tape and software formats to any new environment you may have. Our extensive experience and resources ensure SpectrumData provide an individually tailored solution specific to your environment, data requirements and budget.
What are the benefits?
- Secure and fast migration of legacy data to new backup hardware and software.
- Free up internal company resources to perform higher value tasks.
- Low risk using a formalised ISO certified process managed by the experts in tape migration.
- No hardware maintenance or software license costs to support legacy backup environment.
- Significantly reduce data storage costs as a result of moving to higher-density tape media.
- Integration of existing backup catalogue data into your new backup software for easy restores.
- A reduction in facilities costs such as power, cooling and physical floor space to keep legacy environments running.
- The option of secure, controlled destruction and disposal of original input media.
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