Cirrus Data’s Summer of Customer Success – Week 3
Cirrus Data Solutions continues its Summer of Customer Success with another case study, this one from a global financial advisory and consulting firm that had an issue with migration that is less common, but one that Cirrus Data has helped companies with when other migration solutions couldn't. Our Customer Success Stories often feature cases where customers needed their data migrated within a very tight deadline, or needed to make sure that users noticed no impact [...]
Cirrus Data’s Summer of Customer Success – Week 2
Cirrus Data Solutions continues its Summer of Customer Success with another case study, this time from Loyola University, a private research university in Chicago, one of the largest Catholic universities in the United States with over 17,000 students. When the school needed to replace its aging IBM XIV Storage System arrays in two data center locations, it chose Pure Storage, purchasing Pure's X20 FlashArrays for both sites. The university wanted to use its own staff [...]
Cirrus Data’s Summer of Customer Success – Week 1
Cirrus Data Solutions is excited to kick off its Summer of Customer Success! With the heat picking up here in the US and abroad, we figured what better way to help you stay cool under pressure than to show you how Cirrus Migrate Cloud (CMC) and Cirrus Migrate On-Premises (CMO) can help solve your storage migration and data protection challenges! Every Wednesday for the rest of the summer we're going to feature a brand new [...]
Turbocharge Your Cloud Migration
In the world of cloud migration, there are plenty of “free” tools. We have found that these tools, while functional, aren’t free if you value your time, application uptime, and telco bandwidth. About everyone has some project to get some portion of their infrastructure in the cloud, and the first step is to get there from their current on-premises infrastructure. The first step in getting there is to conduct a pilot with minimal investment to [...]
Public Cloud Migration with Cirrus Migrate Cloud
Many organizations still have on-premises implementations of their most business-critical applications. They haven’t been able to take advantage of the increased operational flexibility that moving to the cloud offers for data storage. The reasons behind the trend to put more core infrastructure in the cloud are clear. The challenge is migrating to the cloud simply and quickly to avoid downtime and continue operations as a company would when using an on-premises environment. The new Cirrus [...]
Installing and Running MySQL in the Cloud
One of the most popular open-source business applications used in the clouds is MySQL relational database (RDBMS). This application can run on either Linux or Microsoft Windows OS'. Many users use on-site implementations of their most business-critical databases but are hesitant to move them to the cloud. Yet, with the proliferation of public clouds, many businesses are looking to move their databases to the cloud as operational flexibility is better than on-premises. The trend [...]
