Decathlon taps Datadobi tech for cloud migration project

Decathlon has deployed Datadobi’s DobiMigrate software to help enable the move of its IT operations into the cloud.

The retailer made the decision to completely leave its onsite datacentres and migrate to a number of the main cloud providers (including Azure, AWS, GCP, Alibaba Cloud, and Yandex).

One of the final steps would be the migration of all its on-premises unstructured archive data, ranging from product and inventory to customer data.

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“We knew a migration of this magnitude could be very complicated, particularly in relation to moving the archive data,” says Tony Devert, IS Engineer, Decathlon.

“We considered using CSP’s data movement capabilities but knew this wasn’t their core competency and that their tools were not really qualified to conserve our legal timestamp.”

He adds: “We had over six years of archive data to move to the cloud. Every application has its own particularity and would have needed to do its own migration. In other words, the project would have been chopped up into little pieces individually by application.”

“In addition, we had the added complication that the archives included legal data that had associated required retention periods. So, we needed to have extra checks and safety measures in place that would provide proof of the correct migration of the content.”

With DobiMigrate, a file would only be declared successfully migrated if the source and target were an identical match. A report could then be created to show every single hash of every single file, which could be kept for future auditing.

“We were able to dramatically accelerate our migration and complete it well under our timeline objective,” says Devert.

“And, with its chain of custody capabilities, we don’t have to check and double check that our data was moved to the destination. With DobiMigrate, if we are audited in two years, five years, or 10 years we can be confident our data is there, and it is correct.”

He concludes: “Now that we are in our new cloud environment we can benefit from the speed, agility, and elasticity of on-demand solutions that we can intelligently adapt to our business requirements, thereby positively impacting our bottomline.”