One of the barriers for enterprises storing data in the cloud is data migration, a process that has traditionally been slow and costly due to network limitations. IBM aims to eliminate this challenge by introducing a new cloud migration solution for its customers. The solution is specifically designed to move massive amounts of data to the cloud efficiently.
IBM Cloud Mass Data Migration is a shippable storage device, which offers 120 TB and uses AES 256-bit encryption. The device also uses RAID-6 to ensure data integrity and is shock-proof. The solution is offered at a flat rate and includes overnight round-trip shipping.
The device is about the size of a suitcase, and has wheels so it can be easily moved around a data center, Michael Fork, distinguished engineer and director, cloud infrastructure, IBM Watson and cloud platform said. Fork said that the solution allows customers to migrate 120 TB in seven days.
When you actually look at the networking aspects of this product, for example, if you were to transfer 120TB over a 100 Mbps internet connection, that would take 100 or more days.
Similar options on the market include the AWS Snowball Edge, which was launched last year and offers 100 TB of usable storage capacity. In June, Google introduced Transfer Appliance, which offers up to 480TB in 4U or 100TB in 2U of raw data capacity.
Previously IBM supported two main transfer methods. One was an IBM solution called IBM Data Transfer service, and this allows you to ship us a USB hard drive or CD/DVD, and so you could migrate in up to 10 TBs of data pretty easily using that service. The other solution IBM supports is through IBM Aspera, a network-based transfer.”
IBM Cloud Mass Data Migration is designed for any customer that has large amounts of data to migrate to IBM Cloud, Fork said, pointing to customers who move large SAP datasets or datasets for use with IBM Watson or other cognitive services.
VMware customers are bringing to IBM Cloud large amounts of data, VMDKs, machine images, they need a fast and efficient way to move large amounts of those.
Source: WHIR
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