Data Migration Tools and Services

Overview

Make data migration easy

Migrating your data to a cloud environment can improve data integrity, increase ROI and yield better insights for business decisions. IBM data migration tools and services include automated conversion tools and native Oracle compatibility, providing seamless, secure and cost-effective migration of your data to the IBM Cloud®.

Benefits

Benefits of data migration

Modernize your infrastructure

Experience seamless integration between on-prem and cloud environments, with hybrid architecture and portable analytics powered by the IBM® Common SQL Engine. Run apps on any data store across the entire Hybrid Data Management portfolio.

Get more value from your business data

From software to appliances to hybrid cloud, choose the deployment options best suited to your needs. With high value and low TCO, IBM can help you maximize your investments and gain better insights from your data.

Utilize machine learning

Solve your toughest data challenges with IBM® Data Science Experience and IBM Spark, two robust tools backed by industry-leading expertise. Create and train predictive analytics models with machine learning.

Accelerate your journey to hybrid cloud

IBM provides leading-edge tools and native compatibility, including compatibility assessments, automated schema conversions and built-in native PL/SQL compatibility with vendors like Oracle.

Use cases

The data migration process

After you migrate, the Common SQL Engine will manage your data to ensure your apps run seamlessly on cloud, Hadoop and any data stores within the IBM Hybrid Data Management family.

Schema conversion

Extract and create your source data structures in the IBM Common SQL Engine.

Data movement

Extract and load data from your source system into your target data repository.

Application migration

Convert and move your application over to the new data repository.

Solutions

Data migration tools

Fast, secure migration to the IBM Cloud

IBM Lift is a free tool that enables fast, secure and reliable database migration from on-prem to the IBM Cloud. Embedded with IBM Aspera®, Lift makes over-the-wire data transfers lightning fast.

Modernized, AI-driven data management

Modernize the management of both structured and unstructured data across on-premises and multicloud environments.

High speed, secure data transfer

Move large volumes of data to, from and between on-premises data centers and any major cloud.

Case studies

Data migration case study

Anheuser-Busch InBev

The world’s largest beer brewer migrates vast amounts of data from multiple mission-critical systems reliably, securely and risk-free — reducing transfer time by 75%.

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Resources

Automated schema conversion

The IBM Database Conversion Workbench tool provides compatibility assessments and automatic data definition language (DDL) conversion from Oracle to Db2.

Migrating from PDA to IIAS

Use the db_migrate command to copy databases or tables from a PureData for Analytics system to an IBM Integrated Analytics System (IIAS).

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What is data migration?

Learn more about the challenges involved in planning a data migration project at enterprise scale, and explore best practices to ensure your project’s success.

Next steps

Ready to migrate? Have questions? Talk to our migration experts to discuss your migration scenario and get answers on how best to move your data.

Data migration tools and services