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Arcserve delivers cloud migration
without downtime or data loss
The 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.
He added that among the various
migration methods, the most common is
Byron Horn-Botha, Lead: Channel and
Partnership, Arcserve Southern Africa
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.
IT ELIMINATES
THE MANUAL
STEPS TYPICALLY
REQUIRED DURING
THE MIGRATION
PROCESS WITH
AUTOMATIC
NETWORK
REDIRECTION.
“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,” he noted.
“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 pushbutton
cutover to ensure availability to the
new production environment.”
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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