Overview
With storage capacity continuing to grow at a rate of 50 percent annually and storage hardware cost dropping rapidly, data migration is a fact of life for organizations today. Data migration is the one-time movement of data from a legacy source, or multiple sources, to a new target database. Many significant business initiatives and large IT projects have come to depend upon successful data migration.
Evaluating the costs and hidden costs of migrations, along with new migration tools, can provide a new perspective on how to approach moving data. Some of the common data and application migration challenges include:
- Ability to provide a simple, unified approach to data mobility by moving data
- Reduce the cost, complexity and risk of moving data
- Ensure continuous application availability