Why Data Migrations?
Transferring of data from one location to another, an application to another, one format to another is the process of Data Migration. Businesses holding on to legacy data infrastructures have realized that they are losing out by holding on to old, inefficient systems. These systems drag them down with reduced performance, scalability, high maintenance, compliance complications, Anomalies, and errors while having an increasing cost. Now, data migrations are often used by firms to move from on-premises infrastructure to cloud, cloud to cloud, on-premise to on-premise, and from applications to cloud-based storage and applications to optimize or transform their company. Data Migration isn’t easy as it seems, it’s difficult and risky to “disentangle” data and to overcome “data gravity.