data migration
Moving stored information
Data migration is the process of moving data from one system, format, or storage location to another.
Organizations undertake data migrations when upgrading software, consolidating databases, or moving to cloud services.
The challenge lies in preserving data integrity while transforming it to fit new structures: The data migration took six months and required cleaning up decades of inconsistent records.
- cutoverLand stripped of trees
- go liveActivate for public use
- big bangLoud explosive noise
- cloud storageOnline data preservation service
- databaseOrganized digital information collection
downtime · backup · ETL · metadata · rollback · dry run · human error · replication · middleware · mergers and acquisitions · legacy systems · backup solutions · cloud computing · cost overruns · normalization · schema · mapping · flat file
- transferstransfer, money transfer, bank transfer, wire transfer, fund transfer
- IT systemssoftware, server, hardware, servers, databases
- data processingnormalization, standardization, encoding, scaling, aggregation
- file transferupload, download, file transfer, file sharing, file upload
- integrationintegration, synthesis, fusion, merging, unifying
- data systemsdatabase, schema, relational database, DBMS, SQL