Whether server, storage or virtual, migrations have never been easy. The difficulty has always been the downtime required to move physical or virtual workloads from one platform to another. Virtualization technology from VMware VMotion to Microsoft Hyper-V live migration has significantly helped because they can move live workloads between virtual infrastructures, greatly reducing the impact to production systems. However, that only covers the virtual landscape and specifically only migrations between like virtualization vendors.
www.platespin.com is the leader in workload management, the evolution of what was started as x2x or anywhere-to-anywhere migrations. This company offers migrations that are hypervisor agnostic, live, and will flex to work with your storage environment.
There is clearly and established leader in the space here...what is double-take doing moving away from what it does best...DR???
The X2X Factor and the Future of Data Center Migration
Posted by: Brace Rennels April 15, 2009 04:00 AMWhether server, storage or virtual, migrations have never been easy. The difficulty has always been the downtime required to move physical or virtual workloads from one platform to another. Virtualization technology from VMware VMotion to Microsoft Hyper-V live migration has significantly helped because they can move live workloads between virtual infrastructures, greatly reducing the impact to production systems. However, that only covers the virtual landscape and specifically only migrations between like virtualization vendors.
There is clearly and established leader in the space here...what is double-take doing moving away from what it does best...DR???