Enterprises have been willing to dip their toes in the cloud by migrating applications that are not mission-critical, saving their “crown jewel” applications for a future round of cloud migration. That allows the enterprise to start taking advantage of cloud benefits without exposing themselves to unnecessary risks by running mission-critical or line-of-business applications in an environment that does not fully match the functionality, resilience, or performance of their on-prem production environments.
The Challenges of Migrating Applications to the Cloud
When it comes to mission-critical application migration workloads, concerns about performance (IOPS, throughput, and latency) cause enterprises to pause and evaluate their options. Public clouds can only guarantee certain levels of IOPS and latency requirements. Sometimes, IT leaders discover that their applications do not work as well in the cloud as they did on-premises. Unpredictable cloud bills have also proven to be a challenge, and performance is a major lever driving up cloud spending. In addition to the complexity of migrating mission-critical applications, there are real concerns about performance and cost.
Performance issues
It is time to improve your cloud strategy If you are migrating an application to the cloud and experiencing unstable performance or long wait times. Perhaps, for agility reasons, you moved a mission-critical workload to the cloud and it needs higher performance than it is receiving, or maybe your workload previously ran as expected, until the amount of data grew, and changes were made to the workflow.
Cloud storage bills
It is time to revisit your plans for cloud governance and spending, If you are pushing for high levels of performance, you will pay for it. As your capacity in the cloud increases over time, whether it’s from the growth of data or data clones and snapshots taking up space, it will increase your cloud bill.
The Benefits of Using SoftNAS
SoftNAS is a Linux-based virtual NAS appliance that’s deployed on modern hypervisor-based systems. It runs as a virtual machine, providing a broad range of software-defined capabilities, including data performance, cost management, availability, control, backup, and security.
• Simply Powerful: A powerful, full-featured NAS filer
• Non-Stop Storage: Delivers five 9’s of availability on AWS
• Frictionless Experience: Easy to try, buy and use
• Agile Storage Software:
• On-demand, where and when you need it
• Security on AWS: Secure storage software on AWS
• Performance & Capacity: Flexible pricing and enterprise-class data protection
SoftNAS provides customers a unified, integrated way to aggregate, transform, accelerate, protect & store data, and easily create hybrid cloud solutions that bridge islands of data across SaaS, legacy systems, remote offices, factories, IoT, analytics, AI, and machine learning, web services, SQL, NoSQL & the cloud — any data. SoftNAS works with the most popular public, private, hybrid, & premises-based virtual cloud operating systems, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, & VMware vSphere.
• Easy setup and fast storage deployment
• Enterprise-grade security
• Support for all major file protocols
• Built-in data protection
• Petabyte-scale
Case Study: SaaS Application Migration to cloud
Application Migration to cloud
Modus (discovermodus.com), a business intelligence company designed specifically for law firms and corporations to help improve their entire legal operations, wanted to move its eDiscovery application from an on-premises data center to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Modus needed higher availability and greater scalability, manageability, and simplicity to help clients assess, strategize, and leverage critical business intelligence.
Frictionless application migration without reengineering
Modus turned to SoftNAS Cloud because of its solid reputation for helping enterprise businesses tap into the full potential of cloud data storage. Buurst helps companies easily migrate SaaS applications without the effort and expense required of “application modernization” as they transition from on-premises storage to AWS
SoftNAS Cloud NAS simplifies data migrations to AWS
Modus offers an eDiscovery SaaS application for the legal industry that enables users to process, analyze, review, produce and report on data with legal information with increased efficiency. In addition, Modus’ eDiscovery services help law firms and corporations plan, discover, interpret, manage and leverage raw data into Discovery Intelligence to help optimize their legal enterprise.
The amount of data and the highly sensitive nature of the data Modus manages required a solution offering superior data storage scalability and high levels of security and data protection. In addition, Modus experienced a growing need to.
Simplify data management and improve both agility and availability to better help clients assess, share, strategize, and leverage critical business intelligence. Modus knew they needed the support of Network Attached Storage (NAS) software, commonly deployed to provide shared file services to users and applications. They also needed a solution to help them move their eDiscovery App from an on-premises data center to the cloud.
Why Modus chose SoftNAS to Migrates their SaaS Application to AWS cloud
Modus was familiar with the SoftNAS Cloud NAS filer, available in the AWS Marketplace, that supports a variety of market verticals, use cases, and workload types. They also knew that SoftNAS can be deployed on AWS to enable block and file storage services through the Common Internet File System (CIFS), NFS, and iSCSI protocols.
This was a critical point, as the Modus eDiscovery SaaS app used a shared file system that was unable to support native AWS cloud storage solutions such as Amazon EB (Elastic Block Store).
Another key factor in choosing SoftNAS AWS NAS Solution was that the SoftNAS solution could be used to “Lift and Shift” applications onto AWS, without re-engineering traditional (or legacy) applications. This was critical due to the limitations of legacy applications, still widely utilized in many business spheres. Many companies face problems transitioning legacy applications to the cloud as they require modernization and improvement in terms of security, performance, and stability. The process of re-engineering traditional (or legacy) applications can be a lengthy, in-depth, and expensive process.
SoftNAS Cloud allowed Modus to use standard storage protocols to enable its SaaS eDiscovery app to operate unchanged on AWS.
Ongoing value
Beyond giving Modus a frictionless application migration experience to AWS without traditional app re-engineering, SoftNAS Cloud NAS enabled Modus to gain scalability, manageability, and simplicity so they can save time while delivering highly-available cloud apps to their customers.
AWS continues to support Modus with greater agility and availability and gives time back to operations teams while enabling Modus to drive business value, add new customers, and streamline company acquisitions.
Additionally, Modus can now better protect its mission-critical data with secondary backup on AWS. Modus continues to use SoftNAS to accelerate the migration of apps requiring highly-available file services.
Beyond that, SoftNAS helps Modus
- Deploy storage in minutes (production storage in under 30 minutes)
- Experience lower total cost of ownership (TCO) due to replacing on-premises enterprise storage with an elastic cloud NAS
- Experience further cost reductions and greater customer satisfaction due to SoftNAS’ industry-leading 99.999% No Storage Downtime Guarantee
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