Cloudfirst’s Legacy Data Tape Archive Audit, Analysis, and TCO Modelling Service is a turn-key data empowerment service providing unparalleled real-world insights into your digital archive system and its surrounding workflows from inception through to present day.

Our migration experts take a data-science driven approach to analysing, quantifying, and modelling operational and technical Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of your Legacy Archive system based on your own real-world data. We analyze and expose all core Legacy Archive system metrics including workflow specific indicators, asset utilization patterns, system performance details, resource loading, assets, risk areas, etc. These insightful utilization and growth models allow us to accurately forecast migration timelines and build various five-year Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) scenarios based on client objectives, industry best-practices, and powerful Cloudfirst reference architectures. These invaluable real-world insights eliminate all guesswork and assumptions, providing concrete data to empower your data-driven next-generation archive transformation planning.

Capturing the required data snapshot only takes a few minutes and typically does not require any Legacy Archive system downtime. This allows our migration experts to fully recreate each client archive environment in the Cloudfirst labs with zero-risk to sustaining production operations. Using this offline instance, enables us to delve deeply into the operation of the system, model system behaviours, and look back over the entire lifetime of the system to extract and model these valuable insights. The entire end-to-end process typically takes approximately two to three weeks to complete.

If you are contemplating migration off proprietary Legacy Archive software platforms and aging data tape, our data-empowerment service helps eliminate archive transformation operational and commercial risks, reduce migration timelines, and empower your data-driven next-generation archive planning. We can also pre-emptively identify potential roadblocks and risk areas increasing migration efficiency and overall archive transformation success rates.

The final work-product is a detailed report highlighting all KPIs, analysis results, growth forecasts and projections, utilization patterns, areas of concern, various TCO models, next-generation reference architectures, and transformative guidance. Reports and data analysis can be customized to achieve certain client objectives and address specific operational or technical areas of concern. Our insightful analysis and interactive approach ensure our clients accurately understand the current state of their digital archive and empower them to peer into its future as well.

When the time comes for a lift-and-shift of these aging and proprietary Legacy Archive platforms, the detailed archive transformation models developed during this process are used as the baseline configuration for our Rapid Migrate migration orchestration platform at the heart of Cloudfirst's Archive-Migration-as-a-Service (AMaaS). AMaaS is a targeted, end-to-end offering combining our best-of-breed Rapid Migrate migration orchestration platform with an unparalleled team of migration experts to help propel clients successfully down their archive transformation path. Our migration experts remotely manage and monitor migration operations throughout the entire process, tuning performance and resolving issues before client teams are even aware. This allows Rapid Migrate to accurately “ebb and flow” following the daily demands on your Legacy Archive system maximizing resources assigned to migration tasks while protecting sustaining production workflows in a non-intrusive fashion.

Our Legacy Archive Audit and Modelling Service leverages your historical, real-world archive system usage and performance data to provide:

• Analysis and modelling of current Legacy Archive system demands and usage patterns
• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) important to truly understanding your archive environment
• Reference architectures for your next-generation archive based on your real-world archive usage
• Next-generation Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) scenarios compared against “status quo” baseline
• Archive system resource performance, potential areas of concern, bottleneck identification, etc.
• System usage model which ensures zero-impact on production operations during migration
• Accurate Cloudfirst Archive-Migration-as-a-Service (AMaaS) migration timeline and cost