More than 2 petabytes of the world's most valuable digital assets - liberated every week.
Our turnkey Archive Migration as a Service (AMaaS) is a cost-effective, end-to-end managed data-tape (LTO) to cloud migration offering. It combines our best-of-breed Rapid Migrate orchestration platform with our unparalleled team of migration experts to help you escape aging, proprietary on-premises archives and propel you down your next-generation transformation path.
Regardless of your motivation for migration, taking the first bold step to your next-generation platform can be daunting.
You can remain status quo and hope for the best, or invest in the future of your business while ensuring the long-term protection of your digital crown jewels. Our experienced team and advanced migration tools help you break free of aging, proprietary Legacy Archive systems.
Whether your next-generation strategy involves on-premises, private cloud, public cloud or hybrid, our experts help you analyze, plan and migrate away from massive-scale Legacy Archive systems — eliminating all technical and operational impact along the way, for the most cost-effective, efficient and risk-free path.
Our data-driven approach has been honed over dozens of successful projects. Our Legacy Archive Audit and Modelling Service identifies and models all archive and resource utilization metrics, so we enter migration without guesswork — ensuring unmatched efficiency, fully identifying costs in advance, eliminating technical risk and ensuring zero impact on sustaining production operations.
AMaaS is offered as a turnkey Software-as-a-Service, priced on the unique storage footprint of your archive across the whole migration timeline — Rapid Migrate subscriptions, managed services, software support and any required professional services included, all fully defined up front. It offloads the entire transformation burden from your team, so your staff stay focused on core business while our experts remotely manage and tune the migration, often resolving issues before you’re even aware of them.
Knowledge is value
What makes AMaaS different.
Transparent costs
Whether you’re migrating a portion of your assets or a full multi-petabyte archive, you’ll only ever pay for what you use. All costs are known up front, before the first byte is moved.
Secure and fast
Our solution scales to meet your bandwidth demands and migration targets. Data is always encrypted in transit and never leaves your direct control.
Multiple targets
We support most legacy archive systems and all on-premise and cloud target storage platforms. You bring your own cloud credentials and we handle the rest.
Intelligent routing
Granular control over migration order, routing each asset to different targets and storage classes based on dynamic, metadata-driven policies.
Metadata is key
Legacy archive, technical and ancillary metadata travels with your assets. Migrated objects are tagged with key metadata, which can also populate new and downstream systems.
Preservation grade
The only true preservation-grade migration solution, with innovative internal content verification and advanced integrity integration with most leading cloud platforms.
Rapid Migrate™
Migration orchestration that protects production.
Cloudfirst’s Rapid Migrate is an advanced, scalable orchestration platform built to move digital assets to your next-generation archive quickly and efficiently — while protecting existing production operations at every step.
It automatically ebbs and flows with daily production demands: reducing resource use as operational demand rises, and increasing it during off-peak windows, for the fastest possible migration with operational priority always maintained.
Total visibility, handled for you.
A real-time, web-based dashboard gives your administrators a simple way to monitor the migration, while our experts handle every complexity on your behalf.
- Proactive optimisation. Cloud-based reporting lets our team spot and clear bottlenecks so performance stays optimised throughout.
- Preservation-grade integrity. Checksums confirmed at every stage; assets migrated in data-tape context to minimise mechanical wear on aging systems.
- Production-safe throttling. Parallel migration streams scale dynamically so production workflows are never impacted.
- Metadata continuity. Legacy metadata is preserved as key/value pairs (S3, etc.) or sidecar files for downstream MAM and media-supply-chain systems.
- Any target. On-premises, private, public or hybrid cloud — Rapid Migrate supports almost any target storage and archive system.
2PB+
liberated every week
LTO
data-tape to cloud, end-to-end
0
operational impact, guaranteed
Any
on-prem, private, public or hybrid
Break free from legacy with speed and certainty.
Massive-scale archive migration doesn’t have to be slow, risky or disruptive. With Cloudfirst’s proven AMaaS platform and expert-led services, you break free from legacy systems while safeguarding your most valuable digital assets at every step. From terabytes to petabytes, we deliver a seamless, transparent, preservation-grade migration with zero impact on your operations.