Trellix accelerates on-premises research data migration with AWS Snow Family

The article summarizes how Trellix, a cybersecurity company, successfully migrated its on-premises research data to AWS using AWS Snow Family. It outlines the challenges faced by Trellix and the requirements for the migration, including a short 4-month timeline and the need for cost-effective, secure, and user-friendly storage.

Specifically, the article covers:

• Trellix's challenges and requirements for data migration, including a short timeline, numerous small files, and limited network bandwidth.
• The discovery and planning process, where Trellix chose AWS S3 as the target storage solution and decided to use AWS Snow Family for offline data migration.
• The data migration and implementation process, which involved using AWS Snowball and overcoming challenges with small file transfers through collaboration with AWS.
• Considerations such as batching small files, using S3 Lifecycle policies for cost optimization, and monitoring with S3 Storage Lens.
• The successful migration of 400TB of data within the 4-month timeline, meeting Trellix's requirements for cost-effectiveness, security, and user-friendliness.