Move the data. Keep the business running.
ApexFormality Data Solutions is an independent storage and cloud migration consultancy. We plan and execute block-level, file-level, and fabric migrations for enterprises that cannot afford a bad cutover — healthcare, government, finance, and multi-petabyte data centers.
Migration work, grouped the way engineers actually scope it.
Every engagement starts with an assessment. Nothing moves until we know what depends on what, and how we get back if something goes wrong.
Block-Level Migration
LUN and volume moves where the host stays up.
Array-to-Array Block Migration
Non-disruptive movement between heterogeneous arrays, including multi-vendor estates that were never meant to talk to each other.
Boot-From-SAN Migration
Moving boot LUNs without rebuilding hosts — the piece most migration plans underestimate and most cutover windows die on.
Cluster Migrations
Active-active and active-passive cluster moves with quorum, witness, and failover behaviour validated before the window opens.
Cirrus Migration Solutions
Certified delivery on Cirrus Data Migration Services and Cirrus Migrate Cloud, including API-driven orchestration for large host counts.
File & Unstructured Data
NAS estates, permissions intact, nothing silently dropped.
File-Level Migration
Multi-million-file NAS moves with ACLs, timestamps, and share structure preserved and verified against the source.
Unstructured Data Assessment
Find out what you’re actually storing before you pay to move it — age, access patterns, orphaned data, and what can be archived instead.
NetApp ONTAP Migration
7-Mode and cDOT estates moved on-prem or into Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP with SnapMirror relationships rebuilt cleanly.
Healthcare & EPIC Data
Migration architecture for EPIC and other clinical systems, where the governance and risk plan matters as much as the copy job.
SAN Fabric & Network
The layer everything else depends on.
Fabric Assessments
Brocade and Cisco MDS health reviews: zoning sprawl, oversubscription, ISL utilisation, firmware exposure, and single points of failure.
Fabric Migration
Cisco MDS to Brocade DCX and back, including interop mode and zoning database migration on live production fabrics.
FCIP & Channel Extension
Site-to-site replication links designed for the distance and the recovery objective, not just the port count.
On-Prem Array Assessment
An independent read on what your current arrays can still do, what’s end-of-life, and what actually needs replacing this budget cycle.
Cloud & Virtualization
On-prem to AWS, with the bill modelled first.
VMware to AWS Lift & Shift
On-prem VMware and physical estates moved to AWS using MGN, with dependency mapping done before anything is rehosted.
P2V and V2V Migration
Physical-to-virtual and cross-hypervisor moves across VMware, Hyper-V, and AHV, including the legacy workloads nobody wants to touch.
VMware Implementation
vSphere, vSAN, and NSX design and deployment — built to be migrated into later without a rebuild.
Cloud Cost Modeling
What the workload will actually cost per month after it moves, with tiering and lifecycle policy designed to keep it down.
Terraform & Infrastructure as Code
Landing zones, networking, and security controls defined as code so the environment is reproducible and auditable.
Object Storage & S3
Petabyte-scale object migration and S3-compatible integration work, including performance and durability review.
Backup & Disaster Recovery
Restores that have actually been tested.
Backup Remediation
For estates where backups run but nobody’s confident they restore. We find the gaps and close them.
Veeam Architecture & Migration
Moving off legacy backup products onto Veeam, including immutable repository design on the 3-2-1-1-0 model.
Disaster Recovery Design
DR that matches a recovery objective you’ve agreed in writing, including AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery for cloud targets.
Archive & Retention
Long-term retention and archive tiers designed around what compliance requires, not what the appliance defaults to.
Advisory & Documentation
The paperwork that makes a migration defensible.
Design Workbook Services
Site-specific design workbooks capturing array, fabric, host, and zoning configuration — the reference implementation engineers build from and auditors ask for later.
Runbook & Document Creation
Cutover runbooks, rollback procedures, and operational handover documentation written to be followed at 2am by someone who wasn’t in the design sessions.
LOE & SOW Development
Level of effort estimates and statements of work scoped from the actual environment, so the number in the contract survives contact with the data center.
Pre-Sales & Post-Sales Support
Technical support through the full engagement — validating feasibility with stakeholders before the deal, and staying through delivery and handover after it.
Assess. Design. Migrate. Verify.
The order matters. Most failed migrations were scoped backwards — a tool picked before anyone mapped what depended on what.
Find out what’s really there
Inventory, dependency mapping, and an honest read on what’s end-of-life or already at risk.
Write the runbook first
Architecture diagrams, a cutover plan, a rollback plan, and agreed success criteria before any tool is licensed.
Move it in controlled waves
Phased execution with validation between waves, so a problem in wave two doesn’t compromise wave one.
Prove it landed clean
Integrity checks both ends, documented handover, and restore testing before we call it done.
Twenty-five years of moving data that couldn’t afford to break.
ApexFormality Data Solutions LLC is led by Theodore R. Pritchett IV, a Sr. Migration Solution Architect who has spent his career on the hard end of enterprise storage — the boot LUNs, the clustered databases, the clinical systems with a four-hour window.
That work has spanned Pure Storage, HPE SimpliVity, Cohesity, Brocade, Fujitsu, and HPE 3PAR, across healthcare, federal and DoD, telecommunications, and financial services.
ApexFormality Data Solutions LLC is independent. We don’t resell arrays and we don’t carry a quota, so the assessment you get is the one the data supports — including when the answer is that you don’t need to migrate yet.
Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Professional
- Google Professional Cloud Architect
- Pure Storage Certified Platform Architect — Expert
- Pure Storage Migration Specialist
- Cirrus DMS Certified Professional, Level 2
- Cirrus Migrate Cloud Professional
- Komprise Technical Professional
- DataDobi Professional 5
- VMware Certified Professional (VCP 8)
- Brocade BCFP, BCFD, BCNE, BCLE, BCFCoEP, BCEFE
- NetApp NCDA · Cisco CCNA · MCSE
Tell us what success looks like for you.
A first conversation costs nothing and usually clarifies the scope more than a month of internal debate. Bring your current pain, let’s discuss a solution together.
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