By Johnny Yu
Many of the most resource-intensive enterprise workloads have to do with BI, making them prime considerations for cloud migration. Moving BI workloads to the cloud has been a challenging prospect, however, because of their size and complexity, said Charles Araujo, principal analyst at Intellyx and founder of the Institute for Digital Transformation.
The task is daunting enough that organizations are hesitant to perform these large-scale migrations, especially in the case of Hadoop. The market demand is there, but the tools are not, Araujo said.
Next Pathway’s big market differentiator is its focus on these BI workloads, Araujo said. Its tools address the full lifecycle of the migration process, from initial planning to cut-over, and allows customers to identify and fix redundancies and inefficiencies in their environments before moving them.
“There is plenty of pent-up desire to move these intensive and expensive workloads to the cloud, if enterprises can do so in a manageable and scalable way,” Araujo said.
