What Are the Capabilities of Petabyte-Scale Migration Tools?

When researching cloud migration solutions that can perform petabyte-scale data migrations, there are various critical factors you need to consider. From handling the sheer volume of data to ensuring no downtime, understand every capability of such a tool matters when planning your enterprise’s cloud migration.

Here are some of the core capabilities of platforms specializing in petabyte-scale data migrations. These are also the features you should look for when choosing such enterprise-grade migration tools for your organization:

Capability to Handle Large PBs of Data Migration Without Downtime

Support for migration of petabytes of data without any downtime is one of the most important capabilities to look for. Enterprise-grade cloud migration tools like CloudFuze Migrate are designed to scale to large-sized migrations involving petabytes of data, thousands of users, and complex metadata.

Along with the high-volume migration capabilities of the tool, it is important to implement strategic approaches to avoid downtime risk. These approaches include:

  • Migrating users in multiple batches to avoid API rate limiting
  • Using dedicated instances to ensure smooth migration performance
  • Adhering to the source cloud’s restrictions
  • Preservation of Metadata of Bulk Files and Folders

    Another extremely important capability of platforms specializing in petabyte-scale data migrations is preservation of metadata. When migrating a high volume of files and folders (ranging petabytes in sizes), it becomes highly challenging to accurately preserve each file and folder’s rich metadata like:

  • Timestamps
  • Sharing permissions
  • Ownership levels
  • Versions
  • External shares
  • Embedded links
  • An advanced petabyte-scale migration tool like CloudFuze Migrate can help you preserve these metadata and enable users to adopt the destination cloud smoothly.

    Enterprise-Grade Security and Compliance

    Enterprise-grade security is one important trait shared by advanced tools that can migrate petabytes of data. When migrating a high volume of data, especially sensitive business data, security becomes the cornerstone of migration success. Right from the cloud authentication stage to handling of sensitive data during migration, proper security is non-negotiable.

    When exploring cloud migration solutions, look for a tool that can authenticate clouds securely, adhere to security regulations, encrypt data during migration, and provide comprehensive IT support.

    At CloudFuze, we ensure enterprise-grade security in all these areas. Our tool uses OAuth 2.0 to secure the cloud authentication process. It also adheres to GDPR, SOC 2 Type 2, and ISO 27001, and encrypts data during migration with RSA 2048 encryption.

    Automated Resolution for the Destination Cloud Rules/Limitations

    In many cloud migration scenarios, it becomes challenging for IT teams to address the restrictions and rules of the destination cloud platform. For example, when migrating to Microsoft 365, restrictions for specific special characters, file/folder names, and folder paths create technical migration challenges.

    By using a migration tool like CloudFuze Migrate, you can address those restrictions though automation, no manual intervention needed. Our tool automatically replaces unsupported special characters with – or _ and modifies file/folder names to supported versions.

    Suppression of Email Notifications During Migration

    When migrating petabytes worth of files, users can get bombarded with email notifications related to migration-associated changes, such as updates or changes in file sharing permissions.

    To avoid this issue, the migration tool you choose must provide the option to suppress those email notifications. This way, users do not get impacted during the migration and the overall change management becomes result oriented.

    CloudFuze’s Specialization in Petabyte-Scale Data Migrations

    At CloudFuze, we have industry-leading specialization in petabytes-scale cloud data migration. With our advanced tools and methodologies, we have helped some of the world’s largest companies, including Warner Bros. Discovery, migrate petabytes of data, thousands of users, and millions of links and chat messages successfully.

    Here’s our full session with Warner Bros. Discovery highlighting their migration journey with us:

    Contact us today to learn how we can address your company’s high-volume migration needs.

    Frequently Asked Questions

    1. How to migrate large petabytes of data?

    It’s important to follow a structured approach to migrate large petabytes of data, including pre-migration analysis, scope of work planning, user mapping, user batch creation, cloud authentication, one-time migration and validation, delta migration and validation.

    2. Which is the best cloud migration tool for large enterprises?

    CloudFuze Migrate is one of the best cloud migration tools for large enterprises planning to migrate petabytes of data and thousands of users while ensuring optimal security and compliance.

    3. Is it safe to perform large-scale cloud migrations?

    Yes. With a highly secure and advanced cloud migration tool like CloudFuze Migrate, you can perform cloud migrations of all sizes and complexities.