As
technology is advancing and becoming ever prominent in our daily lives, more
and more data is compiling, especially for businesses both large and small.
This mass accumulation of data in recent years has lead the technology industry
to figure out the best ways to store, use, and compute this data. The cloud is
the latest data trend, which is “maturing as an operational center for large businesses.”
Amazon just
recently launched their database migration service through their Amazon Web
Services (AWS). According to Amazon web services, this new service aims to help
companies and individuals “migrate [their] data to and from most widely used commercial
and open-source databases.” I found this interesting because it is easy
to underestimate the process of transferring data between databases, especially
when they are in the cloud and intangible. For example, “companies often copy databases
to massive storage devices to be shipped physically to cloud data centers.” By
offering a service that will ease this migration of data, Amazon is
opening an innovative window for their company to attract users, and also
attract them to their database systems such as Amazon Aurora. Additionally, a
recent survey found that “58%
of companies planned to use Web-based, on-demand computing services, including
both public services…and private cloudlike facilities.” This percentage was at
a mere 24% just 14 months ago, showing the rapid increase in demand for these
web-based services to manage the large amounts of data. This is important
because more and more companies are now going to try to integrate and offer
cloud service platforms to meet this demand, as Amazon is doing. Oracle and
Microsoft are also attempting to simplify the data transfer process for their
platforms. However, it appears as though Microsoft’s attempt at this process is
to make it easier to transfer data between Microsoft specific database and
cloud programs, which is why Gartner Inc. analyst, Lydia Leong referred to
Microsoft as a “increasingly sticky vendor.” In my opinion, Amazon’s new
service will have the upper hand in regards to this because they are offering “homogeneous
migrations such as Oracle to Oracle, as well as heterogeneous migrations
between different database platforms.” This will be appealing to many
businesses that are interesting in switching between platforms and vendors.
I think this
article leaves out some important information in regards to the ways in which
Amazon’s data migration service will be simple and easy to use, and the ways in
which is it superior to other migration services. In addition, it does not
include specifics on how this service will be executed, and what the businesses
or individuals will have to sacrifice, like time away from the data and cost. Lastly,
security issues were not addressed, such as the potential loss or leakage of
data during the migration process, which are both major concerns nowadays.
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