Transfer General

In a nutshell

• Secure and High-speed Data Migration: Transfer General enables seamless, high-speed encrypted migration of your workloads between various clouds or data centers and Equinix Metal infrastructure. With customer-controlled encryption keys and data-at-rest encryption, we ensure maximum security and compliance across various platforms.

• Regulatory Compliance: Transfer General utilizes strong data encryption that aligns with industry regulations like GDPR, HIPAA and PCI DSS. This ensures data privacy, integrity, and control during migration.

Why we love it

• Seamless Multi-Cloud Integration: Transfer General enables secure migration of your workloads across multiple cloud platforms and data centers, which lets you leverage Equinix Metal’s infrastructure in the multi-cloud strategies with ease.
• Data-at-Rest Encryption: Data transferred with our service is encrypted by default, before the migration process begins, ensuring sensitive information remains protected throughout its journey. This means that no unencrypted data is ever migrated outside and between your endpoints, mitigating the issues with misconfigured servers and firewalls.
• Comprehensive Compliance Support: Designed to meet stringent regulatory requirements, Transfer General helps organizations comply with GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS and other regulations by providing robust encryption and secure data handling protocols.
• Flexibility: Transfer General integrates seamlessly with various cloud platforms, on-premises deployments, and Equinix Metal servers. Our service  adapts to various use cases, offering secure and efficient data encryption management on your machines.

• Managed Solution: Transfer General is offered as a managed service, where Server General utilizes Equinix Fabric and FCR to provide secure, high-speed transfers (up to 50 Gbps) over private point-to-point connections, handling all networking and configuration hassle for Equinix Metal customers.