GUIDING PRINCIPLE 4

Guiding Principle 4: Protect and manage data during and after migration

BUSINESS CHALLENGE: The new implementation must comply with corporate security, data protection and data management policies, and with relevant government and industry regulations.

As part of acceptance, IT planners, InfoSec teams and compliance organizations must certify the new storage implementation is secure, efficient and compliant. For example, validating that the new implementation adheres to established security systems and practices. HPE Pointnext recommends the use of strong encryption to secure data in transit and data at rest throughout the migration process. Layered security measures are a best practice to rigorously safeguard applications and data against malware, ransomware and viruses. To improve governance, the new storage architecture should integrate seamlessly to corporate authentication, authorization and access control systems.

To avoid unexpected data loss, scalable data backup or replication solutions for business continuity and disaster recovery will be needed. As part of planning, data protection solutions must be specified to meet the recovery point and recovery time objectives (RPOs/RTOs) for the applications you plan to migrate.

HPE Pointnext recommends automated data management tools to optimize storage resources and improve economics. They can intelligently move infrequently accessed data to archival storage or cloud storage services to better align storage costs with data value.

Automated data management tools can help you align storage costs with data value.

• 80% of unstructured data is rarely accessed or never accessed after 90 days

– Source: National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center Introduction to Archival Storage

Lastly, the new architecture must comply with all relevant government and industry mandates. Many regulations like GDPR, FERPA, HIPAA and CJIS establish strict data privacy, security and durability rules that impact how you store and manage data. HPE Pointnext has experience assisting organizations to address compliance.

Checklist:

1. Institute strong security systems and practices during and after migration.

2. Back up or replicate data for business continuity and disaster recovery.

3. Automatically archive stale data to align storage costs with data value.

4. Ensure new implementation complies with relevant regulations.

Expected Results:

High application availability and reliability.

Limited risk and exposure due to downtime or data loss.

Better utilization of storage capacity and lower costs.

Protect data, mitigate risks and contain costs

Ensure compliance

Archive stale data Backup / replicate

HPE Pointnext helped a Scandinavian Service Provider Move to an All-Flash Data Center

Business challenge

Migrate virtualized infrastructure to a new data center in a different location

Move 1700 hosts and 5.3 PB of data to a new all-flash HPE 3PAR storage platform

HPE Pointnext solution

HPE Data Migration Service for 3PAR

Host-based mirroring for UNIX hosts

SAN-level migration for Linux and Windows hosts

Customer outcome

75% of hosts migrated on-line with no interruption

5% of hosts migrated offline with minimal downtime

Average of 40 hosts/72 TB of data migrated per week