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23 August 2021

All For One And One For All: Improving Data Mobility With Version 5.12

If you’re already familiar with Datadobi, you know that we focus on unstructured data. This presents a unique data mobility problem domain separate from SAN-based block storage datasets. It’s a huge challenge to migrate and/or protect the hundreds of millions to billions of files and objects that are common in today’s storage environments. To that end, Datadobi is constantly investing in new technologies and methods that allow us to work with these datasets in more and more efficient ways.

27 July 2021

System Integrators Need to Modernize or Lose Out

For many enterprise-scale organizations, managed system integrators (SIs) have become the ‘go-to’ outsource partners for a vast variety of strategic technology requirements and niche challenges. Using this approach, a project is often transferred from the customer to the SI, and while this offers some very well-established benefits, customers can also become distanced from key processes and find they are unable to respond effectively to changing requirements.

21 July 2021

How DobiMigrate is Winning the Data Migration Race

Enterprises are typically very concerned about how long it will take to complete a data migration project. After all, prolonged migrations can cost organizations hundreds to thousands of dollars. As a result, many data migration solution providers have prioritized speed over all other factors.

24 June 2021

DobiMigrate CTA Bypass with Unity and S3

In an earlier blog post, we provided details about a specialty data migration we call “CTA Bypass,” which is a unique way to speed up what is normally a very slow migration. And when I say slow, I mean periods involving months or even years to migrate the data – not exactly the speeds needed in the current world where the ability to do everything quickly, including migrating data, is of the utmost importance.

23 June 2021

Cloud-Based File Storage in a Post-Pandemic Economy: Why Migration Matters

Cloud-based file storage has grown massively during the pandemic as organizations embraced remote working environments. Global enterprise companies were able to adopt effective, proven technologies offered by market-leading brands without the need for sudden infrastructure spend, while employees got the file storage they needed without having to think too much about the process or where files would reside.

11 June 2021

Beyond Due Diligence: Why Reporting in Enterprise Data Migration Matters

The successful completion of a data migration project is highly dependent on the data management vendor you choose. Enterprise organizations need to evaluate several factors when choosing a data management vendor, including the level of effort and associated cost of the solution, the time it will take to complete the data migration project, and the support services the vendor offers.

22 April 2021

Will History Repeat Itself?

We have come a long way since the days when companies believed that Robocopy, rsync, and vendor migration tools were good enough for their data center transitions. After experiencing pain with old tools, most of those companies are now loyal customers of Datadobi. Not if we can help it. The unstructured data management market is […]