Next Pathway SHIFT Cloud assists customers moving legacy workloads to the cloud

Automated cloud migration firm Next Pathway Inc. in the present day introduced new code translation software program designed to help prospects in transferring legacy workloads from knowledge warehouses and knowledge lakes to the cloud.

Designed for clever and automatic cloud migrations, Subsequent Pathway’s SHIFT Cloud permits prospects to add, analyze and translate their total legacy code base, in line with the corporate. Help contains switch and evaluation of Structured Question Language code and extract/remodel/load or ETL pipelines to the cloud goal of their selecting in a self-service capability.

SHIFT Cloud eliminates the guesswork and frustration from the cloud migration course of, Subsequent Pathway says, providing a dependable and easy technique to translate complicated legacy workloads, of their entirety, to main cloud targets. The brand new service could be accessed on a software-as-a-service mannequin or deployed immediately right into a buyer’s setting, relying on how prospects wish to handle their cloud migrations.

Utilizing the service is described as “three clicks to translation.” Buyer add their supply system information to SHIFT Cloud and the service then analyzes them and generates a report. A buyer can then set off automated code translation to a particular cloud goal, together with SQL code and ETL pipelines.

SHIFT Cloud can translate code from legacy sources, together with Teradata, Netezza, SQL Server, Hive, Oracle and DB2, in addition to ETL pipelines comparable to DataStage and SSIS. The service mechanically scans legacy information to disclose the full composition of the objects and derives the anticipated automated code translation based mostly on the chosen cloud goal.

The generated report evaluations the legacy supply system’s full breadth and dimension, offering an entire stock of all code objects. Particulars within the report embody the road counts by object kind and any exceptions to the cloud goal.

SHIFT Cloud will mechanically translate SQL code and ETL pipelines to chose cloud targets, comparable to Snowflake, Azure Synapse (together with Azure Information Manufacturing facility), AWS Redshift and Google BigQuery. Translations sometimes take solely hours to carry out. As soon as accomplished, prospects can view the unique and translated supply code side-by-side in a user-friendly interface.

“SHIFT Cloud places the facility of automated code translation into the shoppers’ arms whereas making certain the excessive diploma of accuracy and efficiency essential to streamline the cloud migration course of,” Chetan Mathur, chief govt officer of Subsequent Pathway, stated in a press release. “Firms have invested years in creating legacy purposes. Shifting these to the cloud was beforehand time-intensive and costly, typically leaving the client with partially translated information.”

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