Cirrus Data Solutions

About Cirrus Data Solutions

Cirrus Data Solutions Inc. is a provider of data mobility technology and services, founded in 2011 by brothers Wayne and Wai Lam. The company, headquartered in Syosset, New York, with global support centers, addresses the challenge of migrating block-level data across different storage environments without business disruption. The founders, both veterans of the enterprise storage industry with experience at companies like FalconStor Software, CA Technologies, and Cheyenne Software, identified a market need for more efficient and secure data migration processes. Their entrepreneurial journey includes several successful storage technology ventures, with Wayne Lam having started his first company based on a college project.

The company's core technology is the patented "Transparent Datapath Intercept" (TDI), which allows organizations to migrate data without downtime or impact on production operations. Cirrus Data's main offerings are Cirrus Migrate On-Premises (CMO) and Cirrus Migrate Cloud (CMC). These solutions enable the migration of any block storage—from any vendor, on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid setup—to any other block storage destination. A key feature is the ability to perform live migrations, keeping data and applications online throughout the process, and even supporting hypervisor migrations between platforms. CMC is delivered as a mobility-as-a-service platform and is available on major cloud marketplaces, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

Cirrus Data operates on a channel-driven business model, distributing its solutions through a wide network of systems integrators, managed service providers, and technology partners such as Dell, HPE, IBM, and Pure Storage. The company serves large organizations across various sectors, helping them with storage modernization, data center consolidation, and cloud adoption by automating and simplifying complex migration projects. The technology has facilitated over 4,000 migrations, moving more than an exabyte of data.