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Data migration services

Data migration services and tools that can enable nondisruptive, online migrations to reduce costs, optimize infrastructures and increase productivity

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When you have a data migration project, IBM can help you:

  • Do it faster
  • Lower labor expenses
  • Reduce lease and maintenance overlap costs
  • Minimize planned and unplanned outages

With any infrastructure change – whether you are moving to new hardware, consolidating, relocating or optimizing storage – you have to move data. But migrating data is often complex, risky, and costly and can impact application availability and performance.

Data migration with IBM Data Mobility Services can help reduce the costs and risks of these IT initiatives by accelerating data migrations, lowering labor expenses, minimizing lease and maintenance overlaps, and virtually eliminating application outages. By accelerating the data migration, IBM can help you deploy smarter and more cost-efficient technologies with minimal disruption to your business.

Highlights

  • Industry-leading software designed for migration across the enterprise with support for z, Windows, UNIX and Linux platforms and multivendor hardware – Softek TDMF, the 10+ year, industry standard for nondisruptive volume-level migrations and Softek zDMF, the only nondisruptive dataset migration technology
  • Trusted data migration technology used in more than 1,800 data migration engagements and by more than 800 organizations worldwide
  • IBM's experienced technical professionals who migrate more than a petabyte of data every year and are rated as industry leaders in ability to execute storage services
  • Flexible solution choices that include IBM services, software, or managed migration services

White paper: Storage migrations made simple (PDF, 1.5MB)

White paper: The hidden costs of data migration (PDF, 218KB)

White paper: Softek TDMF z/OS extended distance migration (PDF, 878KB)

White paper: Implementing Softek zDMF technology. Supporting simple, effective and nondisruptive data migrations (PDF, 594KB)

Technical implementation guide: Implementing TDMF UNIX technology for simple, effective, and non-disruptive data migrations (PDF, 413KB)


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