Your data is valuable. Whether you’re sequencing genomes, managing a media powerhouse, or running your own business, you need fast, affordable, ready access to it in order to achieve your goals. But, you can’t get the most out of your data if it’s locked-in to a provider where it’s hard to manage or time-consuming to retrieve. Unfortunately, due to egress fees and closed, “all-in-one” platforms, vendor lock-in is currently trapping too many companies.
Universal Data Migration, a new service launched today, helps you quickly and securely move large datasets into B2 Cloud Storage–from public clouds and cloud drives, servers, and tape. Plus, we’ll help cover migration costs with qualifying commitments.
Read on to learn more about how Universal Data Migration can help you say goodbye to vendor lock-in, cold delays, and escalating storage costs, and hello to B2 Cloud Storage gains, all without fears of cost, complexity, downtime, or data loss.
How Does Universal Data Migration Work?
Backblaze has curated a set of integrated services to handle migrations from pretty much every source, including:
- Public cloud storage
- Servers
- Network attached storage (NAS)
- Storage area networks (SAN)
- Tape/LTO solutions (LTO-6 or greater)
- Cloud drives
We help cover data transfer and egress costs and facilitate the migration to Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage. The turnkey service expands on our earlier Cloud to Cloud Migration services as well as transfers via internet and the Backblaze Fireball rapid ingest devices. These offerings are now rolled up into one universal service.
“I thought moving my files would be the hardest part of the process, and it’s why I never really thought about switching providers before, but it was easy.”
—Tristan Pelligrino, Co-founder, Motion
Outside of specifics that will vary by your unique infrastructure and workflows, migration types include:
- Cloud to cloud: Reads from public cloud storage or a cloud drive (e.g., Amazon S3 or Google Drive) and writes to Backblaze B2 via inter-cloud bandwidth.
- On-premises to cloud: Reads from a server, NAS, or SAN and writes to Backblaze B2 over optimized cloud pipes or via Backblaze’s 96TB Fireball rapid ingest device.
- LTO/tape to cloud: Reads tape media, even tape older than LTO-6, from reel cassettes to cartridges and more, and writes to Backblaze B2 via a high-speed, direct connection.
Backblaze also supports simple internet transfers for moving files over your existing bandwidth—with multi-threading to maximize speed.
Fortune Media Reduces Storage Costs by Two-thirds With Universal Data Migration
After divesting from its parent company, Fortune Media rebuilt its technology infrastructure and moved many services, including data storage, to the cloud. However, the initial tech stack was expensive, difficult to use, and not 100% reliable.
Backblaze B2 offered a more reliable and cost-effective solution for both hot cloud storage and archiving. In addition, the platform’s ease of use would give Fortune’s geographically-dispersed video editors a modern, self-service experience, and it was easier for the IT team to manage.
Using Backblaze’s Cloud to Cloud Migration, now part of Universal Data Migration, the team transferred over 300TB of data from their legacy provider in less than a week with zero downtime, business disruption, or egress costs, and was able to cut overall storage costs by two-thirds.
“In the cloud space, the biggest complaint that we hear from clients is the cost of egress and storage. With Backblaze, we saved money on the migration, but also overall on the storage and the potential future egress of this data.”
—Tom Kehn, Senior Solutions Architect at CHESA, Fortune Media’s technology systems integrator
Even More Benefits
What else do you get with Universal Data Migration? Additional benefits include:
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- Truly universal migrations: Secure data mobility from practically any source.
- Support along the way: Simple, turnkey services with solution engineer support to help ensure easy success.
- Safe and speedy transfers: Proven to securely transfer millions of objects and petabytes of data, often in just days.
Ready to Get Started?
The Universal Data Migration service is generally available now. For more information or to set up a free proof of concept, contact the Backblaze Sales team.
