{"id":1262,"date":"2019-06-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/symantec-s-zero-downtime-migration-to-azure-cosmos-db"},"modified":"2025-06-24T06:32:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T13:32:32","slug":"symantec-s-zero-downtime-migration-to-azure-cosmos-db","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/symantec-s-zero-downtime-migration-to-azure-cosmos-db\/","title":{"rendered":"Symantec\u2019s zero-downtime migration to Azure Cosmos DB"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How do you migrate live, mission-critical data for a flagship product that must manage billions of requests with low latency and no downtime? The consumer business unit at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.symantec.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Symantec<\/a> faced this exact challenge when deciding to shift from their costly and complex self-managed database infrastructure, to a geographically dispersed and low latency managed database solution on Azure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image has-custom-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/6e0e0c81-ea72-4022-8110-aaa5deec9522.webp\" alt=\"Symantec company logo\" style=\"border-radius:0px\" title=\"Symantec company logo\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Symantec consumer services protect customer data and identities on over 40 million endpoints across 150 countries, and manage over 15 billion global requests daily. \u201cOur goal is more than keeping data safe,\u201d explains Stephanie Alibrandi, Software Engineer at Symantec. \u201cIt&#8217;s keeping families and people safe by keeping their information in a secure place.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They knew a move to the cloud was the right decision for managing scale, increasing performance and decreasing costs. 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Alibrandi and team shared their business requirements and decision to adopt <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/services\/cosmos-db\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azure Cosmos DB<\/a> in a <a href=\"https:\/\/customers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/story\/symantec-professionalservices-azurecosmosdb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent case study<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"achieving-the-zero-downtime-migration\">Achieving the zero-downtime migration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once the decision was made to move to cloud, the team\u2019s focus shifted to how to successfully migrate their data.&nbsp; A live migration is no small undertaking and the team had two major challenges to overcome:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">Migration needed to be completed quickly to reduce the cost of running two parallel systems.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">The sheer volume of data \u2013 billions of rows across many distributed databases<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Technical Architect Michael Shavell shares on a special \u201cHow we built it\u201d episode of Microsoft Mechanics Live, how their migration strategy and selection of Azure Cosmos DB enabled them to make the shift with minimal code changes and zero downtime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image has-custom-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/257cf435-1e62-41af-8d14-7e7d04239608.webp\" alt=\"Diagram showing how Symantec migrated to Cosmos DB\" style=\"border-radius:0px\" title=\"Diagram showing how Symantec migrated to Cosmos DB\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To learn more, watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bBfaxw22mHA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dive deep on Symantec\u2019s migration strategy<\/a>, including their workload focused approach, lessons on right sizing scale, and their insights-driven DevOps model for monitoring load demands on the service as part of their zero down-time migration approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"get-started\">Get started<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/services\/cosmos-db\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azure Cosmos DB<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/cosmos-db\/cassandra-import-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tutorial: Migrate your data to Cassandra API Account in Azure Cosmos DB<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you migrate live, mission-critical data for a flagship product that must manage billions of requests with low latency and no downtime? 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