Migrate Vast Amounts of Data with Ease Thanks to Open-E & Helix Joint Solution
Discover the full potential of this solution in our solution brief, where we break down each element and highlight its biggest advantages for you:
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Optimized Data Storage System Performance & Capacity
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Uncompromised Data Security
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Reduced Risk of Data Loss
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Accelerated Migration Timelines
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Simplified Logistics & Cost-Effectiveness
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Your Data Migration Needs Covered
Organizations migrating large volumes of data often face challenges in maintaining data integrity, ensuring security, minimizing downtime, and managing complex logistics. To overcome these obstacles, they need a solution that provides end-to-end security, reduces the risk of data loss, and enables faster transfer of petabytes of data.
Helix and Open-E joined forces with the goal of delivering a secure, reliable, and cost-effective migration process to support moves to new data centers, infrastructure consolidation, or system upgrades.
The Helix MARS Migration JBOD, powered by Open-E JovianDSS, is a secure and efficient solution that covers these challenges. It offers optimized storage performance and capacity, ensures uncompromised data security with end-to-end encryption, and significantly reduces the risk of data loss. This integrated solution accelerates migration timelines, simplifies logistics, and provides a cost-effective path for seamless data transitions.
Hardware and Software Specification
The solution consists of the following elements:
- Supermicro SAN chassis
- 960GB SAS-12 SSD drives that ensure the high performance of the provided solution
- Seagate Exos 16TB HDD that supports the solution with enormous capacity
- Helix MARS migration platform that ensures that valuable content and data are migrated securely (with 256-bit AES encryption) and with a complete audit trail for compliance.
- The system leveraged ZFS-based Open-E JovianDSS for its data storage software foundation.
File size: 1.3 MB
See How the Helix Migration JBOD Works in Practice
Learn how a major insurance company successfully implemented the joint Helix and Open-E solution. The project resulted in:
- dramatic cost savings,
- a seamless and efficient migration process,
- an optimized and scalable archival system,
- and significantly enhanced data security.
The Fortune 500 insurance company achieved remarkable success by leveraging Helix’s MARS platform, with Open-E JovianDSS providing the essential high-performance and scalable storage backbone. The strategic use of Helix’s RTV resulted in over $5 million in first-year savings and, coupled with the efficient data processing, enabled the closure of an entire data center. This collaboration delivered a seamless migration and established a highly optimized, secure, and cost-effective archival solution for their critical business data.
Cory Bentley, Marketing Director at Helix International
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