Businesses of all sizes can now quickly and easily migrate mission critical 
data at any scale to AWS within minutes with zero business disruption and 100% 
data consistency

WANdisco (WAND.L), the LiveData company, announced today the launch of LiveData 
Migrator, an automated, self-service solution that democratizes cloud data 
migration at any scale by enabling companies to easily start migrating Hadoop 
data from on-premises to Amazon Web Services (AWS) within minutes, even while 
the source data sets are under active use. Available as a free trial for up to 
five terabytes, businesses can migrate HDFS data without the expertise of 
engineers or other consultants - the program can be implemented immediately to 
enable companies’ digital transformations. LiveData Migrator works without any 
production system downtime or business disruption while ensuring the migration 
is complete and continuous and any ongoing data changes are replicated to the 
target cloud environment.

“Through 2022, more than 50% of data migration initiatives will exceed their 
budget and timeline — and potentially harm the business — because of flawed 
strategy and execution,” according to Gartner in a recent report.(1) This is 
despite the fact that nearly 70% of enterprises have started moving data to the 
cloud as part of their digital transformation. 

Migrating large data volumes with traditional approaches, such as transfer 
devices or DistCp (distributed copy), requires disrupting the operation of 
on-premises applications and doesn't cater to data that is modified or created 
during migration. Reconciliation at scale is costly and cannot guarantee a 
completely consistent data outcome. The overhead required to achieve 
non-disruptive, no-downtime big data migration is significant due to repeated 
scans, systems out of sync and manual intervention for anticipated failures and 
interruptions.

“Enterprises that want to move their data to the cloud but are concerned about 
the risks of doing so now have a powerful solution that’s self-service and 
extremely easy to use,” said WANdisco co-founder and CEO David Richards. 
“Regardless of company size or technical expertise, LiveData Migrator enables 
businesses to migrate their data risk-free to the cloud on a massive scale 
without any disruption to business operations. Data can be accommodated without 
any risk of data loss while modernizing data and applications to stay 
competitive.” 

GoDaddy is using LiveData Migrator to migrate 500 TB of HDFS data to Amazon 
Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). GoDaddy will operate in a hybrid cloud mode 
and continue to update S3 data as changes are made to Hadoop content in the 
source, so that it is immediately available for cloud analytics using Amazon 
EMR. The first 70 TB were migrated within days with zero on-premises system 
downtime.
 
“At GoDaddy, deep technical knowledge is in our DNA, and we often build 
applications in-house to support growth,” said Wayne Peacock, Chief Data and 
Analytics Officer, GoDaddy. “In the use case of a Hadoop to Amazon S3 data 
migration and replication, we found WANdisco’s LiveData Migrator to be the 
optimal approach to deliver the best time to value, rather than running a more 
time-consuming and costly manual migration project internally. With LiveData 
Migrator, we have completed the first phase, giving us a quick win by fully 
automating the HDFS migration of 70 TB in five days, avoiding disruption of 
production processes and making the data immediately available in Amazon S3 for 
testing.”

WANdisco LiveData Migrator eliminates data migration risks with immediate, live 
and scalable migration. Administrators can easily and immediately move data 
lake content to the cloud while minimizing IT resource involvement with 
automated migration capabilities. No changes are required to applications, 
cluster or node configuration or operation, and there is no production system 
downtime or business disruption, while ensuring their data changes are migrated 
continuously and completely.

WANdisco is an Advanced Technology Partner in the AWS Partner Network (APN) and 
has now achieved AWS Migration Competency status with the release of LiveData 
Migrator. WANdisco was one of four APN Partners who collaborated with AWS to 
define the requirements to cover different use cases, including Hadoop, storage 
and database data migration, and mainframe data integration.

“We are delighted to have APN Partners like WANdisco that exhibit extensive 
knowledge and proven expertise in migration and replication technology,” said 
Sabina Joseph, Director of Americas ISVs, Amazon Web Services, Inc. “LiveData 
Migrator is designed to offer customers a platform that automates and safely 
accelerates large-scale on-premises Hadoop migrations to AWS without business 
disruption. Customers will benefit from optimizing costs and expanding 
analytics and insights capabilities leveraging industry leading services like 
Amazon S3, Amazon EMR and Amazon Athena.” 
 
LiveData Migrator gives enterprises the opportunity to free their systems from 
the capital constraints of acquiring storage hardware by leveraging Amazon S3 
and associated services. LiveData Migrator delivers fast time to value for 
migrating unstructured data into cloud storage to then take advantage of 
machine-learning (ML) powered cloud analytics such as Amazon EMR, Databricks or 
Snowflake to gain valuable business insights. LiveData Migrator also enables 
the transition to a hybrid architecture, where on-premises and cloud 
environments are kept consistent for active-active replication capabilities, 
and sets the foundation for a future multi-cloud architecture. 

LiveData Migrator Capabilities

Complete and Continuous Data Migration
Migrates any changes made to the source data sets, allowing applications to 
continue to modify the source system’s data without causing divergence between 
source and target.

Rapid Availability
Enables data to become available for use in the target environment as soon as 
it has been migrated, without having to wait for all data set migrations to 
complete.

Any Scale
Migrates any volume of data, from terabytes to exabytes, to cloud storage 
without needing to stop changes to data at source during migration

Hadoop & Object Storage Conversion
Migrates HDFS data to other Hadoop-compatible file systems and cloud storage, 
including the ongoing changes made to those data before, throughout and after 
migration. 

Selective Migration
Allows selection of which data sets should be migrated and selectively excludes 
data from migration to specific clusters in the new environment.

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.

For more information, please contact:
Josh Turner
Silicon Valley Communications
turner@siliconvpr.com
917-231-0550

1.	Gartner, “Make Data Migration Boring: 10 Steps to Ensure On-Time, 
High-Quality Delivery” by Ted Friedman, December 13, 2019.

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SOURCE: WANdisco