Cobalt Iron has introduced a new capability called Compass Migrator, which is designed to assist large enterprises in gaining control over their backup operations and data. This platform enables companies to remove outdated backup and storage technologies from their environments, reduce investment in obsolete skills, and have greater control over their data.
For years, businesses have struggled to manage large amounts of legacy backup data. Some of the biggest challenges they face include not knowing the extent or location of their legacy backup and storage infrastructures, being unsure which data is still valuable and needs to be maintained, dealing with inconsistent retention policies, and retaining old backup data “just in case” without even knowing if it can be recovered.
Additionally, many companies are interested in migrating to the latest data protection and storage technologies but are held back by their large amounts of legacy data. The process of moving data to new products often involves analyzing legacy data to determine what should be kept and then manually and laboriously moving the data, sometimes object by object. Even after this migration, companies typically still need to maintain the legacy data and infrastructure to meet data custody requirements, resulting in higher costs and a need to maintain outdated technology skills.
Unlike other backup products on the market that provide little to no assistance in moving off legacy platforms, Compass Migrator offers significant ease and automation to the complex problem of data migration. It provides unprecedented levels of automation, visibility, and data governance control, enabling selective identification of data to be migrated and allowing customers to automatically migrate valuable backup and long-term retention data from legacy environments into multiple storage targets within the Compass solution.
Compass Migrator optimizes the migration process by reducing tape mounts, managing a migration staging area, optimizing throughput, and enabling massive parallelism for large amounts of data. It also ensures that long-term retention data is rebounded with appropriate retention policies. The platform provides migration progress indicators, details, and validation analysis, and tracks data custody throughout the entire migration process and beyond. Additionally, it generates summary and analysis reports as audit evidence of all migration operations.
One significant benefit of Compass Migrator is its ability to offer an easy migration path off legacy tape. Many organizations still rely on tape storage for their backup data, but this technology is becoming increasingly outdated and inefficient. By providing a seamless migration path to modern storage technologies, Compass Migrator allows companies to take advantage of the latest advancements in backup and storage without being held back by their legacy infrastructure.
Graham McGivern, a deployment coordinator at Cobalt Iron, praised the Compass Migrator tool for simplifying the management of data migrations from multiple sources and targets. McGivern highlighted the real-time status updates and progress-tracking capabilities of the platform, stating that it has transformed the complexity of data migration processes and provided unparalleled ease and efficiency.
Overall, Compass Migrator from Cobalt Iron offers a comprehensive solution to the challenges faced by companies attempting to migrate their backup and storage data from legacy systems. By automating and streamlining the migration process, providing data governance control, and enabling seamless integration with modern storage technologies, Compass Migrator empowers enterprises to regain control of their backup operations and data while reducing costs and improving efficiency.