DTI Migrates 400TB from NetApp CDOT 8.2.2 to EMC Isilon

Client info
DTI, Atlanta, GA

Partner
EMC, Northway Technologies

The Challenge

• Needed to migrate data quickly as part of a business acquisition
• Storage platforms were hosted in different geographic locations
• Needed to ensure data integrity
• Could not afford any business disruption
• Budgets were limited

The Solution
DobiMiner from Datadobi for NAS migrations, NetApp CDOT 8.2.2 to EMC Isilon

Benefits
Fast and accurate migration to consolidate critical business data as part of business acquisition.

Customer
DTI is a leading legal process outsourcing (LPO) company serving law firms, corporations and government entities around the globe. DTI helps its clients accelerate the changes they must make to remain competitive. It is a leader in the management of information and processes. The company manages risks and minimizes costs associated with complex litigation and compliance functions. The extensive experience in eDiscovery, managed services, and litigation support is unmatched in the industry. DTI recently acquired Merrill Corporation‘s legal solutions business. The acquisition expands the capabilities of DTI to help the world’s leading law firms and Fortune 500 corporations. The legal industry demands legal services providers, like DTI, that can deliver discovery and litigation support services on a global basis.

Challenge
After DTI acquired Merrill Corporation’s legal solutions business, they needed to quickly and accurately migrate over 400TB of file data from NetApp CDOT 8.2.2 in St. Paul, Minnesota to EMC Isilon in Atlanta, GA. DTI had more than 3.6 billion files that needed to migrate from NetApp to Isilon. It was important for the IT team to find a scalable solution that would fit within their new budget and time constraints.

Solution
DTI enlisted the expertise of their technology partner, Northway Technologies, to recommend a large-scale migration solution that would accurately and rapidly migrate the data from NetApp to Isilon. The partner recommended to deploy DobiMiner for NAS migrations for this large and complex migration.

“We were able to easily deploy DobiMiner software for our migration. It was a tremendous benefit to our team that no hardware needed to be deployed since everything was virtualised. The support that the team at Datadobi provided was second to none in terms of response and resolving any issues that we encountered on our end during the migration,” said director of storage services, Tho Han.

Metrics for Success
With the geographical challenges and abundance of data, it was key for DTI to identify a solution that was virtualized that could get the job done quickly and cost-effectively.

“In our industry, data integrity is absolutely critical,” said Shaun Cutter, CTO, DTI. “DobiMiner was the key to success in our data migration initiative without compromising any data. To ensure data integrity, we validate MD5 checksums on both the source and target files to confirm they are identical.”

Business Benefits
The IT team enjoyed a rapid migration with DobiMiner. The team now has consolidated business files on EMC Isilon in one geographic location. All of the critical data was migrated with little downtime and no business disruption. Overall project costs were also contained.