INTELLIGENT
DATACENTRES
Arcserve delivers cloud
migration without downtime
or data loss
T
he shift to cloud represents a
fundamental change in how
organisations use and provide
their services, with most already running
at least one workload in the cloud today.
Arcserve Southern Africa highlights that
cloud migration or the process of moving
data, applications and workloads to cloud
environments offers many benefits ranging
from greater elasticity and redundancy, to
cost-efficiencies and improved IT productivity.
“With AWS coming online in Cape Town
recently, a lot of SA organisations will be
considering moving their workloads to the
cloud and investigate how to mitigate the
risk in doing so,” said Byron Horn-Botha,
Lead: Channel and Partnership, Arcserve
Southern Africa.
Byron Horn-Botha,
Lead: Channel and
Partnership, Arcserve
Southern Africa
He added that among the various
migration methods, the most common is
re-hosting local, on-premises workloads in
the public cloud. “However, organisations
may also want to move from one cloud
platform to another or migrate from the
cloud back to a local data centre. In any
instance, traditional migration often requires
downtime to avoid data loss, which can
negatively affect workload performance and
increase IT costs.”
Arcserve Live Migration was designed
to eliminate disruption during cloud
transformation. It facilitates an easy data
move, applications and workloads to
the cloud or target destination of choice
while keeping business fully operational.
It removes complexity by orchestrating
the cutover to the target destination and
manages the entire cloud migration process
from a central console.
“Arcserve’s Live Migration simplifies the
process of migrating data, applications and
workloads. Its highly flexible architecture
enables you to move almost any type of
data or workload to cloud, on-premises
or remote locations – such as the Edge,
with support for virtual, cloud and physical
systems,” said Horn-Botha.
He explained that with Arcserve’s Live
Migration solution it is now possible to
migrate without business disruption with
real time, asynchronous replication that
moves data, applications and workloads
from on-premises to cloud, cloud to cloud,
cloud to on-premises and on-premises to
on-premises. “Furthermore, it eliminates
the manual steps typically required during
the migration process with automatic
network redirection. It leads to the
achievement of greater flexibility with
multi-environment, encrypted replication
that supports virtual to virtual, physical to
virtual and physical to physical.
“Arcserve’s Live Migration automatically
synchronises files, databases and
applications on Windows and Linux
systems with a second physical or virtual
environment located on-premises, at a
remote location, or in the cloud. Once
synchronised, changes are replicated in real
time to ensure the source and target are
in sync prior to the migration. Encryption
enables secure data transfers between local
systems and remote locations without the
need for a VPN, and automated network
redirection makes the switchover process
seamless with push-button cutover to
ensure availability to the new production
environment,” he noted.
Horn-Botha confirmed that on the support
side, Arcserve’s teams are among the most
experienced in the data protection industry.
“Channel partners can also adopt and manage
Arcserve Live Migration to support customers
who have limited resources but require the
highest level of protection for vital business
systems,” he concluded. •
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