Tag: Data migration

Over the last 20+ years, commercially available compute virtualization solutions such as VMware have become powerful tools used to lower costs, improve efficiency, ease management tasks, and improve on-premises flexibility. Over time, most cloud providers have added advanced storage, efficiency, and management capabilities to their hypervisors that match or exceed those available to traditional on-premises […]

Businesses today rely heavily on their file server infrastructure to store, manage, and share mission-critical data. However, maintaining and scaling these environments can be a complex and resource-intensive task. As customer needs and data volumes continue to grow, organizations often face the need to modernize their file server infrastructure. When migrating to Amazon FSx for […]

It has become customary for us to share with our customers the new AWS Storage Gateway enhancements every year. As we did in 2020 and 2019, through this blog I’m reviewing all the new Storage Gateway launches from 2021. I’ll cover how the new enhancements make it easier for customers to access AWS Storage from […]

As 2020 draws to a close, we’ve shared several new launches and use cases with our customers and partners during the recent AWS Storage Day and re:Invent 2020 events. Tens of thousands of customers around the world are using AWS Storage Gateway to bridge between their on-premises applications and AWS Storage. Based on ongoing feedback […]

UPDATE 9/8/2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. As customers expand their use of cloud services, they must often align their security and compliance processes with existing enterprise requirements. In a hybrid cloud storage environment that includes both on-premises storage and cloud storage, it can be challenging for customers […]

UPDATE: The AWS re:Invent links in this post are outdated. Please visit the AWS Events channel on YouTube for a complete on-demand playlist of AWS Storage sessions at AWS re:Invent 2019. In one of our recent AWS Storage blog posts, we shared an all-in storage guide for re:Invent so you can maximize your time at the […]

Tens of thousands of customers around the world are using AWS Storage Gateway to connect their on-premises applications with AWS. Over the last 12 months, Storage Gateway launched over 20 new features. These features range from 4x performance improvements to new deployment options, including both hardware appliances and VMware high availability configurations, as well as […]

AWS Snowball Edge enables petabyte-scale offline data migrations from on-premises storage (SAN, NAS, parallel file systems) or databases into Amazon S3. AWS Snowball Edge is part of the AWS Snow Family and the greater AWS portfolio of data transfer services that can be used for data migration. The AWS portfolio of data transfer services also […]

Don’t miss our AWS online Storage Tech Talk on August 21st where we cover: ‘Migrating Data to AWS: Understanding Your Options‘ AWS offers a variety of data migration and transfer services to help you move everything from gigabytes to petabytes of data by using network links, express mail, or even a tractor trailer. In this […]