Saving Our Customers Time Is Our Business

Time is one of our most precious commodities. Once we use it, it’s lost forever with no way to recover it. Luckily, the last few decades have provided us with technology that not only saves us time, but also offers plenty of instant gratification. For instance, streaming video has eliminated trips to the local video store to pick up a rental, while eBooks have eliminated the need to visit a bookstore or library (although such trips are still recommended occasionally to feed the soul). Now more than ever, in our personal and professional lives, time is of the essence.

At Cirrus, saving our customers time is an enterprise-wide initiative. We also love to save our customers money while we are saving them time, since the two are, of course, linked when it comes to business.

When it comes to data migration, our DMS 4.0 appliance will save you more time and money than any other data migration tool available today. In fact, to put a hard number on it, we’ve calculated that we can perform your data migration 100X faster than the “Brand X” appliance. The actual numbers are almost 11 hours for “Brand X” (without accounting for errors in zoning or errors in path identification which can lead to downtime) and less than an hour with DMS 4.0. In the spirit of total transparency, we’ll even show you how those numbers break down – step-by-step – in a white paper we’ll discuss in a moment.

Using DMS 4.0, data migration is as simple as plugging in a cable. Other data migration appliances can be complicated and require well-trained engineers to perform various tasks during the migration. DMS 4.0 automates many tasks involved in data migration, so you don’t spend time on mundane tasks that often introduce mistakes.

Some examples of this automation are:

• A DMS Insertion Wizard that automates the process of path insertion and eliminates the need for special knowledge of VSAN/Logical Switch operations on FC switches

• A DMS GUI that automatically builds an accurate picture of your complete storage environment, including clients, old storage, and new storage

• Auto-Allocation and Auto-Provisioning features that automatically discover the details of how LUNs are presented to the hosts, alleviating the painstaking data migration task of LUN creation and assignment

These automation features help eliminate the possibility of human error during all the tedious and meticulous manual tasks usually associated with data migration, and along with that you can also say goodbye to potential hours of troubleshooting that often accompanies such errors.

We have established that the DMS 4.0 will save you a lot of time. That’s great, of course, but what’s even better is that it will also save you money. Our recent white paper on Migration ROI contains an example of a 600 TB data migration project where using DMS 4.0 rather than “Brand X” for data migration reduced the operating costs by 98% and saved over $400,000. That is an almost-instant ROI.

Now that you are aware of the substantial savings you will incur when you use our DMS 4.0 for data migration, it doesn’t make sense to migrate your data with anything else. To learn more about DMS 4.0 and how it can save you time and money, download our whitepaper, “Save Time and Money on Data Migration with DMS 4.0.”