Migration Promotion for IBM ProtecTIER Customers From Sepaton

Sepaton, Inc. announced a migration program for IBM ProtecTIER customers.

This program offers a free in-depth assessment of the customer’s backup environment with a comprehensive report of expert recommendations, migration support, and trade-in credit, along with a transition to the Sepaton S2100-ES3 data protection platform and Hitachi Data Systems Corp.’swww.hds.com storage to ensure BC and investment protection.

The migration program is available to any customer moving from IBM ProtecTIER with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM), Symantec NetBackup, EMC NetWorker, or HP Data Protector, through 30th September 2014.

As part of the program, Sepaton will provide:

• In-depth Customer Assessment – Data protection consultants will conduct an assessment of a customer’s ProtecTIER backup environment using reporting tools to evaluate TSM, NetBackup, or Networker backup environments on a variety of key metrics including, backup volume trends, client data types, client occupancy (largest clients), policy analysis, retention analysis, backup performance (longest running backups) and restore performance. The results of the assessment will be provided in a comprehensive report with expert recommendations. This free assessment is valued at $15,000 to $30,000.
• Migration Support – Resources will be available to assist with system deployment and implementation, minimizing any risk associated with a transition from the ProtecTIER system to the S2100-ES3. This migration support includes basic installation and integration services, and planning, design and optimization services. All ProtecTIER customers will receive a 25% discount off these services.
• Trade-in Credit – The company will provide trade-in credit for ProtecTIER systems and any pre-paid maintenance services. The credits will depend on the age of the system(s) and other financial considerations. Every customer will receive trade-in credits to migrate to the Sepaton solution.

“Customers have the opportunity to easily and cost-effectively migrate to the   data protection platform,” said Tim Butchart, SVP, WW sales, Sepaton. “Sepaton has been the pioneer and leader in the enterprise space. Our long track record of innovation in performance, scalability, efficient deduplication and replication all at the lowest TCO, allows us to offer IBM ProtecTIER installations a compelling exit strategy, the most advanced solution and a risk-free offer to easily enable the move.”

This migration promotion is available through 30th September 2014.