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Azure Data Migration
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A proven, phase-by-phase framework for migrating your legacy EDW, Data Lake, and ETL pipelines to Azure Data faster and with full confidence.

Azure Data Migration Checklist
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What Next Pathway's Azure Data Migration Checklist covers

A successful Azure Data migration requires a structured, phase by phase approach across discovery, data extraction, validation, and cutover. Next Pathway's Azure Data Migration Checklist gives your team a practical roadmap for planning workloads, identifying dependencies, optimizing data transfer, and validating migration readiness across the entire Azure migration lifecycle.

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Assess Data Scope and Migration Dependencies

Build a complete inventory of databases, objects, and ETL pipelines that need to be migrated. Categorize data by functionality, identify workload dependencies, and evaluate network bandwidth and throughput requirements to define migration priorities and sequencing.

Finalize Migration Strategy and Data Movement

Benchmark extraction approaches and validate migration tools to determine the most effective data transfer strategy. Define activities for historical loads, delta catch up, and final synchronization while planning data validation and integrity checks throughout the migration process.

Validate Azure Readiness and Execute Migration

Select the right Azure storage services based on workload requirements and optimize data transfer using Azure migration services. Establish migration team responsibilities, validate data integrity, and test migration performance before production cutover to reduce risk and improve migration readiness.

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1 Billion+

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160+

Enterprise modernizations completed

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80%

Faster time-to-market for AI-ready infrastructure

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Hadoop migration completed in just 12 weeks
More than 2.5 million lines of Hive code translated and migrated
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What Industry Analysts Say

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Rob Enderle

ENDERLE GROUP

"Next Pathway is providing a solution that accelerates the migration process, giving organizations a faster route to realizing value from their data."
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Eric Kavanagh

THE BLOOR GROUP

"SHIFT Cloud enables a remarkably swift and robust transition from traditional data warehousing to the cloud."

What an Azure Data Migration Covers

A successful Azure data migration requires a structured approach to assessment, data movement, validation, and production deployment.

Discovery and dependency mapping

Assess source systems, databases, data warehouses, ETL processes, reporting assets, and downstream dependencies to define migration scope, complexity, and business requirements.

Code translation and modernization

Migrate data, schemas, and workloads to Azure while optimizing data architectures for improved scalability, performance, security, and cost efficiency.

Validation and functional parity

Validate migrated data for completeness, accuracy, consistency, and functional parity to ensure business processes continue to operate as expected.

Production cutover planning

Execute a controlled transition to Azure with migration sequencing, testing, governance controls, rollback procedures, and stakeholder sign-off to minimize business disruption.

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