Christophe's Corner

It’s a very interesting time in the industry because there are many users of storage going through data center consolidations, moves, and technology refreshes that invariably generate significant disruptions to business as usual. More importantly, these events generate migration projects which are fraught with risk….and cost…and misconceptions.  So, this blog entry is the first in a series over the next few weeks and months on this subject.

As some of you know, we happen to have a great platform and an extremely experienced team of migration experts in our global services organization.  We’ve been spending time studying this migration “iceberg” recently.   Many organizations could be going full steam ahead into a painful collision with reality if they don’t apply the right technology and methodologies to migrate their environment.  There are many misconceptions out there and we’ve uncovered a few.

Rather than write about some of the recent findings from a TechValidate customer survey, I’ll point you to an upcoming Hitachi Data Systems WebTech about migration myths that will cover the many themes and misconceptions associated with migration… and highlight best practices.

Unlike “other vendors”, at Hitachi Data Systems we don’t need to give away migration software to make things look better for the customer and obfuscate the reality.  We successfully prove every day without marketing gimmicks that we have the less/non-disruptive technology and services that effectively reduce customer risk as we efficiently migrate their whole environments (see the Wikibon post from Mr. Floyer).

Let me know what you thing of the WebTech next week (it will be archived if you miss it).