Driving Application Migration from Cloudera to Google Cloud
TechnologyBusiness Impacts
Savings on infrastructure, storage, and migration costs
~30+
VMs Migrated
52
enterprise-wide applications migrated to Google Cloud
~40%
migration cells running independently
Customer Key Facts
- Country : US Central
- Industry : Technology
Problem Context
The client is a multinational professional services company that specializes in IT services and consulting and a leading SI with global offices. The client’s professional services include digital, cloud, and operational capabilities spread across 70 locations worldwide.
Since most of the client’s applications were running on an on-premise legacy platform, the client sought to migrate from Cloudera to Google Cloud Platform after the expiry of their contract with Cloudera.
Challenges
- High maintenance and hardware cost and complex scalability procedures
- Performance and optimization issues in the current CAP(1.0) use cases
- Pipeline and environment unstability
- Limiting ability to meet the needs of growing data
Technologies Used
BigQuery
Google Cloud Storage
Dataproc
Cloud Function
Cloud Composer
Pub/Sub
Cloud Scheduler
Seamless migration from Cloudera to Google Cloud
Solution
- Quantiphi assisted the client with migration efforts for their internal applications from CAP 1.0 (Hadoop) to Google Cloud environment
- Quantiphi provided an end-to-end solution design of the new architecture by leveraging Google Cloud services
Results
- Implemented Google Cloud to align with the client’s multi-cloud strategy
- Migrated 9 applications from Cloudera to Google Cloud
- Identified and implemented best practices for platform compatibility, optimization opportunities
- Migrated all features to Google Cloud despite functionality limitations
- Achieved higher accuracy on Google Cloud as compared to on-prem
- Facilitated seamless coordination between source and application teams for source data load issues
