- DBTA survey shows majority using bulk transfer devices to
migrate live data to the cloud, causing downtime, driving up costs
and missing SLAs
SAN RAMON, Calif., July 14,
2021 /PRNewswire/ -- WANdisco (LSE: WAND),
the LiveData company, today announced the launch of its annual
Hadoop-to-Cloud Migration Benchmark Report, showing that most data
migrations still rely on "old school" approaches and tools
involving shipping data by truck to cloud vendors (56%) and/or
using tools not designed for on-premises to cloud migration such as
DistCp (48%). As a result, more than 54% of migration projects have
not gone according to plan with 24% not completed on time, 11%
not within budget, and 20% missing the mark on both.
"These manual migration tools strain resources, add complexity,
and ultimately increase risks to the business," said WANdisco SVP
Marketing, Van Diamandakis. "This
DBTA survey shows that companies are not taking advantage of
technologies that can ease the transition and mitigate risks in
moving to the cloud. As we look to the future, the next wave of
data migrations will be larger and more complex as companies seek
to implement hybrid and multi-cloud data infrastructure. The
outdated nature of these migration techniques puts companies' data
and business at risk, and will soon become obsolete."
The survey found that most IT leaders are pursuing cloud
migration to lay the foundation for future business value creation.
Data modernization initiatives (78%), cloud scale analytics (61%),
and adopting scalable cloud storage (49%) were the top three
Hadoop-to-cloud migration drivers, pointing to a desire for more
agile capabilities - despite using outdated technologies to get to
that stage. Many respondents expressed the expectation of using
hybrid environments for the foreseeable future with 42% planning to
maintain a hybrid environment for one to three years, and another
36% planning to maintain on-premises Hadoop environments
indefinitely.
Other key findings from the survey:
- Over 73% of respondents intend to migrate on-prem Hadoop to the
cloud
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- Over half of these have not yet started
- Companies with 5,001-10,000 employees show highest intent to
migrate (48.3%)
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- 21% claim to have fully completed the process
- Companies with over 10,000 employees have highest completed
percentage (27.9%)
- 52% expect their on-premises Hadoop data volumes to grow over
next year
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- 6% expect significant increases
- Only 24% expect decreases
- Of companies with highest intent to migrate, 46% have more than
5PB of data to migrate
The survey questioned over 200 technical professionals from the
Global 2000 in May 2021 currently
using Hadoop, or who have previously migrated Hadoop data lakes to
the cloud. Respondents included C-level employees (e.g. CIOs,
CTOs), cloud and data architects, IT and analytics directors or
managers, and others within data, development or management roles
within their organization.
Get the complete 2021 Hadoop-to-Cloud Migration Benchmark
Report here.
About WANdisco
WANdisco is the LiveData company. WANdisco solutions enable
enterprises to create an environment where data is always
available, accurate and protected, creating a strong backbone for
their IT infrastructure and a bedrock for running consistent,
accurate machine learning applications. With zero downtime and zero
data loss, WANdisco LiveData Platform keeps geographically
dispersed data at any scale consistent between on-premises and
cloud environments allowing businesses to operate seamlessly in a
hybrid or multi-cloud environment. For more information on
WANdisco, visit www.wandisco.com.
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