Hadoop → Cloud

Your on-premise data platform is becoming a liability. Hadoop clusters need constant care and feeding. Teradata licensing costs grow 15-20% annually. Oracle DBAs are retiring faster than you can hire replacements. Scaling requires 6-12 month hardware procurement cycles while cloud competitors spin up capacity in minutes. Your best data engineers are leaving for companies with modern stacks. This playbook, our most deployed with 52 successful migrations, provides the proven path from legacy on-premise data platforms to modern cloud architectures with zero downtime and 3x better ROI than lift-and-shift.

This playbook fits organizations facing these common challenges:

• 01On-premise Hadoop/Teradata/Oracle platforms are 5-10 years old, approaching end of vendor support
• 02Infrastructure and licensing costs growing 15-20% annually with no corresponding capability improvement
• 03Scaling requires 6-12 month hardware procurement cycles. Business needs capacity now, not next fiscal year.
• 04Maintenance consumes 40%+ of data team time. Engineers patch and tune instead of building value.
• 05Talent retention is failing. Top engineers want cloud experience; they leave for modern shops.
• 06Technical debt accumulates. Workarounds and patches make the platform increasingly fragile.

• Assessment & Planning: Comprehensive workload analysis categorizing each job by complexity, criticality, and cloud-readiness. Build migration roadmap based on risk and value.
• Re-Architecture: Transform workloads for cloud-native benefits. Lift-and-shift misses 70% of cloud value. Re-architecting delivers 3x better ROI.
• Parallel Run Strategy: New cloud platform runs alongside legacy for 3-6 months. Results validated against production before cutover.
• Automated Migration: Tooling for schema conversion, data movement, and code translation. Manual migration doesn't scale.
• FinOps from Day One: Cloud cost optimization practices established before migration starts. Prevents cost surprises post-migration.
• Team Upskilling: Training and certification program starts 3 months before migration. Teams migrate with knowledge, not fear.