Yugabyte
announced the general availability of YugabyteDB Voyager-a unified
database migration solution. With YugabyteDB Voyager, organizations of
all sizes can leave behind the limitations of legacy and single-cloud
databases, and accelerate their cloud and application modernization
initiatives by seamlessly evolving to an end-to-end cloud native,
distributed architecture.
Gartner
predicts cloud spending will overtake traditional IT spending by 2025,
with more than half (51%) of IT spending in the cloud. The migration to
cloud is driving organizations to prioritize application modernization
and multi-cloud initiatives, but the complexity of moving underlying
data to a modern database has delayed efforts, resulting in productivity
loss, increased risk, and higher operational costs.
YugabyteDB Voyager
enables enterprises to manage the broader lifecycle of database
modernization with a single, flexible cloud native solution. As a
result, organizations can lower their operational costs and reduce
overall risk.
"Our customers want to accelerate their cloud and application
initiatives, but database migration is often the biggest barrier
preventing them from moving these projects forward. The operational
complexity of migrating hundreds of databases from legacy RDBMSs, used
for decades, to a modern cloud native distributed SQL database, can be
daunting," said Karthik Ranganathan, CTO and co-founder, Yugabyte.
"YugabyteDB Voyager eliminates this hurdle by providing an end-to-end
database migration tool that simplifies the move to YugabyteDB by
offering identical steps to migrate databases from any source database
to YugabyteDB deployed in any environment. This eliminates the need to
research multiple tools and retrain the database team."
By accelerating cloud native adoption through YugabyteDB Voyager,
organizations can lower costs by reducing legacy database spend,
increasing data density, and reducing day 2 operational demands. In
addition, YugabyteDB Voyager helps reduce overall risk by providing a
consistent and proven process to migrate both schema and data from
legacy database systems, including Oracle, PostgreSQL and MySQL, and
from traditional single-cloud databases, like AWS RDS, Aurora, Google
Cloud SQL, and Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
"Through 2024, six in ten organizations will re-examine current
operational database suppliers with a view of supporting more agile and
intelligent operational applications and improving fault tolerance,"
says Matt Aslett, VP and research director, Ventana Research.
"Distributed SQL databases specifically designed to provide scalability
and resiliency that extend beyond a single data center or cloud instance
are attractive options. Database migrations can be costly and complex.
Products designed to facilitate database migration and modernization,
like YugabyteDB Voyager, are therefore increasingly important to
organizations as they evaluate potential data platform providers."
First announced as a beta offering in 2022,
the generally available release includes a number of additional updates
and new capabilities based on feedback from a strong set of beta
customers, as well as ongoing engineering investment. A new Installer
greatly improves the deployment and usability of YugabyteDB Voyager,
streamlining the process of getting started.
"As a leader in world-class advertising and marketing services, Genxlead
needed to match our innovative, data-driven services with a modern data
layer that could seamlessly adapt to a rapidly evolving industry. As a
fully-managed distributed database-as-a-service, YugabyteDB Managed was
selected as it exceeded our expectations around scalability,
performance, and operational simplicity," said Madhan Kumar, Founder of
Genxlead. "To simplify the migration from our legacy databases, we were
excited to embrace YugabyteDB Voyager. We completed a successful PoC
that allowed us to load 120M records with YugabyteDB Voyager - an
end-to-end migration product. We look forward to moving our production
workloads with YugabyteDB Voyager and accelerating our cloud-native
adoption."