Data Migration- Migrating Terabytes of Historical Data

Data Migration Service for a Large Finance and Equity Research Firm to migrating terabytes of historical data

Migrate your data quickly and easily, and leave the worries behind

Migrating your company’s critical business data to new storage technology or a new location can be a complex, time-consuming, and risky undertaking. You know you have to avoid interrupting the company’s day-to-day business operations at all costs. At the same time, you find yourself dealing with an enormous volume of information, a disparity between the layout of your new storage platforms versus your old ones, and a sense of confusion as to which of the many migration methods will be the safest and most cost-effective for your IT infrastructure.

If your company is dealing with data migration—whether it’s relocating your operations, consolidating, tiering, or simply moving information to a different storage platform, we can help.

Our Data Migration Services take the burden of migration off your shoulders and puts it in the capable hands of our experts. We has migrated petabytes of data worldwide ranging from storage area network (SAN), network attached storage (NAS), and file systems, to open systems and mainframes. Plus we have the experience and proven methodologies to deal with whatever complexities your particular migration may present.

Migration strategy: Assess; Plan; Conversion; Implementation

We worked for a large financial and equity research firm and provides software analytical tools, proprietary data feeds, and equity research services that help investors make better investment decisions through application of the firm’s proprietary.

Our Customer uses multiple financial models to predict and anticipate stock movements, financial performance, economic profit and wealth creation on over 15,000 global companies.  This organization has large portfolios of Corporate Assets and storing TERA BYTES of data.

Client’s Problem:

• ­High operating costs
• ­Outdated systems handling critical data
• ­Large number of duplicate data
• ­Compatibility issues between legacy systems, platforms and databases
• ­Slow data transfer speeds

Client’s Requirement:

• ­Substantial operating cost reduction
• ­All records to be migrated
• ­Duplicate records to be consolidated
• ­Outdated, inconsistent or deficient data to be updated or purged
• ­Minimal impact during transition

Following Data Migration needs to be done

• From Flat files (.csv, .txt) to SQL
• From Excel to SQL
• From SQL to SQL
• From SQL to Excel
• From SQL to MySQL
• From SQL to Flat files using SSIS
• Excel to SQL migration

Solution:

After detailed analysis of the data, we followed SSIS package approach because it contains a plethora of components and tasks that can carry out a lot of operations ranging from backing up of databases, do merge joins, executing stored procedures, executing SSIS packages, and reading excel files and flat files to processing multidimensional cubes. The host of ready-to-use inbuilt task makes it a convenient tool for developing any simple or complex application in a very short time. Also, the SSIS internal engine provides out-of-the-box memory management and auditing features like error logging.

Benefit and Achievements

• Faster, smoother integration
• Solid foundation for maintaining effective
• Information Management
• Lower total cost of migration
• Reduce overall cost of ownership
• Reduced risk to on-going business operations
• Standardization of data across all business units
• Increase return on investment with reusable templates for future projects
• Improved on-going data integrity and reliability
• Improved production and logistics efficiencies.