From legacy estates to cloud-native data.

Migration is what we do best, on-prem or cloud, proven at petabyte scale. Productized audits and sequenced migration cohorts move legacy estates to a modern lakehouse without the stall. Our Migration Suite accelerators, ProbeX, KodeX, ReconX, and SynthX, make every cohort faster, auditable, and repeatable.

25-35%
TCO compression typical
12 mo
Greenfield to production · enterprise scale
99.9%+
Migration reconciliation
Cloud modernization migration path: from a legacy estate (Greenplum, Netezza, Hadoop / CDH, SQL Server) to a modern data platform (AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks) plus lakehouse, streaming, governance, AI-ready

The honest take

Most cloud migrations don't fail. They just never finish.

Eighteen months in, you have three data estates running in parallel, double-licensing costs, and a backlog that grew faster than the migration. We don't sell "lift and shift." We engineer the path that actually ends.

What stalls migrations

Five patterns we see, every time

  1. "Lift and shift" was sold cheap. Workloads broke. Now the architecture is unsalvageable.
  2. Greenplum / Netezza / Teradata are still running in parallel. License costs double.
  3. No reconciliation between source and target. Business teams won't sign off the cutover.
  4. Cloud costs ballooned past the on-prem estate. The promised savings never materialized.
  5. Governance and lineage were left for "later." Later never came.

What we engineer instead

Sequenced, audited, accountable

  1. Workload-by-workload assessment first. The right migration pattern (replatform, refactor, retire) per workload.
  2. Migration Suite tooling, ProbeX, KodeX, ReconX, SynthX, engineered for exactly this problem at petabyte scale.
  3. 99.9%+ cell-level reconciliation. Cutover criteria measurable and signed off before production.
  4. FinOps designed in from day one. Reserved instance plans. Workload right-sizing. No surprise bills.
  5. Lineage, governance, observability, engineered into the architecture, not bolted on at the end.

The six modernization patterns

Not every workload needs the same path.

Industry-standard six R's of cloud modernization, but with workload-specific judgment. We don't pre-decide. The 4-week assessment maps each workload to its right pattern.

Re

Retain

For workloads that work fine where they are.

Some on-prem workloads should stay on-prem. Latency, data residency, regulatory, or cost reasons. We're honest about it, not every workload is a cloud workload. We map what stays.

Rh

Rehost

"Lift and shift", fastest, but limited.

Workload moves to cloud infrastructure with minimal change. Fast (8-12 weeks per cohort) but doesn't unlock cloud-native capabilities. We use this selectively, mostly for legacy apps with strict change controls.

Rp

Replatform

Most common · most value · most workloads.

Workloads move to cloud-native services without re-architecting the application: SQL Server to Azure SQL, Hadoop to Databricks, Teradata to Snowflake, capturing most of the value at managed cost.

Rf

Refactor

When the architecture is the blocker.

Workload is re-architected for cloud-native. Monolithic ELT becomes streaming + DLT. Batch warehouse becomes lakehouse. Higher cost, longer timeline, but unlocks AI-readiness and FinOps optimization.

Rr

Repurchase

When SaaS does it better.

The custom workload should be a SaaS subscription. Reporting tools, ELT platforms, monitoring, often best moved to managed offerings rather than rebuilt.

Rt

Retire

Many workloads aren't worth migrating.

Honest assessment: some workloads should just be turned off. Duplicated reports, unused data marts, legacy ELT feeding decommissioned systems. The Migration Suite audit catalogs every workload so the retire decision is informed.

Migration source & target

From legacy estates to cloud-native platforms.

The technologies we migrate from, and the modern platforms we land on. On-prem warehouses, Hadoop estates, and legacy ELT move to a lakehouse-native cloud, or a governed hybrid, without losing lineage or control.

SOURCE · LEGACY & ON-PREM
Data warehouses
TeradataNetezzaGreenplumOracle ExadataVerticaSQL ServerSAP BW
Big data & Hadoop
Cloudera CDH / HDPHDFSHiveImpalaSpark on YARNMapReduce
ETL / ELT
InformaticaIBM DataStageSSISTalendAb InitioPentaho
BI & reporting
CognosBusinessObjectsMicroStrategyOBIEE
TARGET · CLOUD-NATIVE
Lakehouse & warehouse
DatabricksSnowflakeBigQuerySynapseRedshiftMicrosoft Fabric
Storage & table formats
Amazon S3ADLSGCSApache IcebergDelta LakeHudi
Processing & streaming
SparkEMR / GlueDataprocTrinoKafkaFlink
Orchestration & governance
AirflowdbtAzure Data FactoryUnity CatalogPurviewDataplex

The accelerators that run the migration

Four accelerators. One for every phase.

Our Migration Suite carries each phase of a modernization, assess, build, cut over, and safeguard, so the journey stays fast, auditable, and low-risk from first scan to production.

PHASE 01 · ASSESS

ProbeX

Scans the whole estate and maps every workload to the right move, so the plan starts from facts, not guesswork.

PHASE 02 · BUILD

KodeX

Auto-rewrites legacy pipelines into cloud-native code, taking the heavy lifting out of every migration cohort.

PHASE 03 · CUT OVER

ReconX

Proves the new platform matches the old, down to the cell, so the business can sign off the cutover with confidence.

EVERY PHASE · SAFETY NET

SynthX

Stands up safe test data and rollback paths, so validation and go-live never put real data at risk.

How engagements start

Productized. Fixed-scope. Fixed-price.

Most cloud-modernization conversations start with one of three productized engagement shapes. Each lands in 4-16 weeks with a measurable deliverable, not a 6-month consulting discovery.

Cloud Readiness Audit

Duration
4 weeks

A full estate scan with workload-by-workload R-pattern mapping, a TCO baseline and target, risk and complexity scoring, and a migration roadmap with named cohorts.

Migration Sprint & Pilot

Duration
6-8 weeks

Reference architecture design and a first migration cohort of 5-10 workloads, with the migration toolchain stood up, a FinOps framework and governance baseline in place, production cutover for the pilot workloads, and a cohort playbook for the next phase.

Migration Cohort

Duration
10-16 wk

End-to-end migration of a workload cohort (100-250 ELT jobs, 5-25 TB). Pipeline inventory, automated rewrites, cell-level reconciliation, synthetic-data fallback. Production cutover + source decommissioning. 99.9%+ recon.

Let's talk.

Twenty-five minutes. Straight to the point.

Tell us what's in your data and AI stack, what's stalled, and what would change if it worked. We'll share what we've shipped against similar patterns in production, and what makes sense as a first step.

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