Mainframe Data Migration Service

Globally, companies are implementing new storage and data solutions in order to help them derive more value from their available data, reduce costs, simplify storage management, and enhance business resilience. Doing so often requires complex data migrations.

PeakData’s Mainframe Data Migration Service provides either online or offline migration of data from existing disk storage arrays or tapes to new disk and/or tape storage platforms in z/Os environments. Options for migrating data include:

• Host-based
• Appliance-based
• Software-based
• Array-based

Each option can be used to perform local migrations (within a single site) or remote migrations ((between two or more sites, using remote connections via existing network capabilities or by performing the migration locally and then shipping the newly migrated storage platform to the remote site(s)). The approach and methodology used to perform the migration will depend on the client’s unique requirements. Key benefits include:

• Onsite service delivery with no impact to production operations; or, offsite at one of PeakData’s secure, state-of-the-art facilities
• Data migrations can be performed for:
• Disk-to-disk
• Tape-to-tape/virtual tape
• Disk-to-tape/virtual tape
• Tape/virtual tape-to-disk
• Service delivery methodology based on best practices gained from years of experience in successfully migrating petabytes of data maximizes application availability and performance, resource productivity, and alignment with business goals
• Six-sigma processes and experienced consultants mitigate risks associated with local and remote heterogeneous data migrations