Modern High Speed TrainEliminating Business DisruptionSmart devices, cloud technologies and the Internet of Things (IOT) have given teams considerable gifts in the age of Big Data - namely, valuable insights that let leaders hone their messaging and competitive offerings to be as effective as possible. But these gifts come with certain drawbacks that every IT leader is familiar with.Depositing a colossal treasure trove of data in your system looks great until you realize that systems don't last forever. They reach the end of their lifespan or usefulness. A competitor system makes you a better offer. A security weakness rears its head. You'll need to protect, manage and eventually migrate that big pile of data at some point. And while migration has always been painful, the disruptions that go along with it are becoming increasingly dire in the age of 24/7 uptime.Data management often seems to run like trains on two opposing tracks. On one, that data needs to be consistently available. On the other, it needs to be frequently moved. When migration takes applications and systems offline, those two trains collide.Avoiding migration isn't a realistic option. You can invest millions in a great storage array but you'll still fill it up (or outlast its lifespan) and need to move your data to greener pastures. Whether you hire some outside expertise or dedicate your staff to a lengthy migration project, it's hard to avoid the inevitable downtime when you take down the application so you can shift your data to the new storage system. Now your data's offline - and if your new system fails validation and you can't get it running immediately, you're facing even longer downtime.The Cost of DowntimeIn the age of 24/7 uptime, users just won't tolerate these outages. Reliable application performance and flawless data availability are the lifeblood of user satisfaction. And of course, your leaders are likely to ask why these downtimes are occurring after they've signed off on millions in budget spent on new arrays.For these reasons and more, it's imperative to move large amounts of data without a maintenance window or drop in application performance. And while eliminating this kind of disruption used to be thought impossible, LightSpeed has made it a reality.LightSpeed is the only migration tool that can literally move large amounts of data without anyone feeling a drop, thanks to the following:- It's agnostic so you can avoid vendor lock-in. Because it's multi-protocol, with NFS, CIFS, iSCSI and Fibre channel support, you can migrate data between any of these storage protocols.- LightSpeed also supports both File and Block data so you can migrate both types of data to any storage device. The idea is that you're unlimited in what you move and where you move it.- The initial data migration is asynchronous to move the largest volume of data. Then before cutover, both your source and destination have synchronous updates while the active writes are occurring. LightSpeed can enter and exit the data path without disrupting the application reads and writes.- You can also automate and schedule your migrations - and throttle that data movement if and when you need to.There's just no reason to tolerate application disruption anymore. If you're part of a successful enterprise team, you know your leadership expects you to maintain incessant uptime and strong performance no matter what - no excuses. LightSpeed is the only solution around that makes that possible while helping you avoid a long and ugly data migration project. There's really no better way to make your team and your organization look good.
