WANdisco
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 The outdated nature of these migration techniques puts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more agile capabilities - despite using outdated technologies to get to that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
- Over half of these have not
yet started
- Companies with 5,001-10,000
employees show highest intent to migrate (48.3%)
- 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
- 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.