Informatica Gives AWS Data Migration a Jolt
By now, chief data officers will tell you tales that detail the difficulty of data migration.
It was never the one-button migration that presentations portrayed.
Yet, as IDC notes that 80% of enterprises will shift to cloud-centric infrastructure and applications twice as fast as before the pandemic by the end of 2021, data migration woes will remain.
One company that is looking to ease the pains is enterprise cloud data management leader Informatica. It has rolled out an offering to help customers jumpstart their data migration using the Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC).
“Data is growing exponentially and is more distributed and fragmented than ever,” said Rik Tamm-Daniels, vice president for strategic ecosystems and technology at Informatica. “Connecting the right data with the right consumer is one of the biggest opportunities facing organizations that want to ensure all users have access to data they can trust.”
The Informatica Cloud Data Integration free service on AWS accelerates data integration, transformation, and loading of priority workloads to AWS for cloud data warehousing, data lakes, and analytics use cases. It includes:
- Cloud Data Integration Services offers intelligent, automated, high-performance data integration at scale, with higher data processing capabilities.
- Cloud Mass Ingestion Services streamlines the building and running of complex integrations with high-performance ingestion of enterprise databases and files from on-premises and cloud sources.
- Out-of-the-box connectivity to the most popular on-premises, cloud, and SaaS data sources and applications, including Amazon Redshift, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Oracle, ODBC, Salesforce.com, CSV, FTP, and REST.
Informatica is also providing integration with Amazon Redshift Console to simplify data ingestion from the most popular on-premises, cloud, application, and SaaS data sources to Amazon Redshift. The integration provides Amazon Redshift customers enhanced data management solutions for their analytics initiatives.
The combination of Informatica’s no-cost service offering and the Informatica native Amazon Redshift Console integration will help customers simplify migration to AWS by accelerating the processing speed of large-scale data integrations.
This integration, the company claims, can increase access to trusted data to drive better and faster business decisions and outcomes. Key capabilities include:
- Moving data into Amazon Redshift without coding for speed, agility, and high productivity.
- Configuring hundreds of data sources in a few clicks, define additional ELT/ETL transformations to process business data, connect data with other datasets, and build consolidated views for analysis and reporting.
- Automating parallel loading into Amazon Redshift clusters optimizing with ELT/ETL patterns for high throughput and performance.
- Connecting seamlessly with cloud-native connectors for Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Aurora, and popular on-premises, cloud, and SaaS data sources and applications.
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