WAN optimization firm Infineta  is giving away free 30-day Data Migration Accelerator licenses to enterprises whose IT infrastructure was compromised during Hurricane Sandy.  The vendor’s goal is to make things a bit easier for companies that have terabytes of even petabytes of mission-critical data sitting in affected locations throughout the East Coast.

“Such major disasters impact the entire country and not just the communities that were in Sandy’s path, and we all have to come together and help rebuild.” Haseeb Budhani, Infineta’s chief product officer, said.  “Our contribution is to make inter-data center traffic acceleration available at no cost in the hope that this will help companies impacted by Hurricane Sandy migrate critical data as quickly as possible and get their operations back online, and protect against any future disasters.”

Migration Accelerator is a pay-as-you-go traffic optimizer that can increase network performance by 5-10 times, according to company data. It’s based on the Data Mobility Switch, Infineta’s flagship system for big data environments that necessitate speedy traffic and very low latency.

This initiative to ease the burden on IT departments that have been affected by Hurricane Sandy follows a similar gesture from Nirvanix.  The cloud storage startup maintains several data centers in the U.S., including one in New Jersey, and it reacted as soon as the warnings started coming through. The company gave clients the choice of migrating their apps and data to a different location for free before the storm hit.

Sandy triggered a response from several government agencies as well, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The FEMA added a rumor control section to its website in an effort to dispel the panic that started spreading across Twitter and Facebook.