| Developers: | IBM |
| Date of the premiere of the system: | October, 2017 |
| Technology: | DWH |
2017: Announcement
In October, 2017 the IBM company provided the device for fast and safe transfer of corporate data to a cloud. The solution was received by the name IBM Cloud Mass Data Migration.
It represents a box with drives with a capacity of 120 Tbyte. For convenience of transportation the telescopic sliding handle, as at suitcases is provided.
The companies load the data into IBM Cloud Mass Data Migration then the device is brought to data center of IBM Cloud for direct transmission of information on servers. IBM notes that thanks to the new system of the enterprise and organization can place the data in cloud infrastructure for several days.
All data stored in a system are protected by means of 256-bit enciphering of AES. Arrays support RAID-6 standard guaranteeing the high level of reservation and protection of integrity of data.
According to developers, IBM Cloud Mass Data Migration especially is useful to the companies which have no high-speed Internet access.
IBM Cloud Mass Data Migration is not the first hardware and software system for data migration in a cloud. Similar solutions are proposed by Microsoft (Azure Data Box), Amazon (AWS Snowball) and Google (Transfer Appliance), their capacity is 100, 10 and 100-480 Tbyte respectively. Also Amazon has Snowmobile trucks supporting physical data transmission to 100 PBytes.
As notes the CIO edition, for most the companies moving to a cloud of data bulks which, for example, are processed by analytical tools, it is very problematic. Cloud providers offer different services for fast and safe data migration to remain competitive and to attract more clients wishing to use cloud services.
At the time of the announcement of IBM Cloud Mass Data Migration it is available only in the USA where costs $395. This amount includes delivery of the device from the client into data center of IBM and back. IBM is going to extend a product in Europe and other countries, but does not call terms of start.[1]
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