Based on an IDG survey, 77% of enterprises have at least one application or a portion of their enterprise computing infrastructure in the cloud. The benefits of cloud are evident, but the challenges of cloud migration have left some organizations hesitant to make a move. Migrating on-premises applications and data to the cloud is a challenging process. There are many factors to consider, including the performance of applications in a new environment, latency issues, bandwidth constraints, and the management of your environment once it’s moved to the cloud. Also, after you decide to move to the cloud, it can be time-consuming to use traditional methods to design, develop, and deploy the infrastructure and move your data to the cloud. Cloud migration tools are a natural option to simplify this process.

Next Pathway is an award-winning products automate the end-to-end challenges customers experience when migration complex workloads to the cloud. Its mandate is to simplify the cloud migration journey, allowing customers to take advantage of unlimited benefits of cloud computing.

Q. Why Next Pathway?

Automate Planning & Assessment Activities: Next Pathway leverages Crawler360^™ to identify the workloads within the Hadoop environment that are migration candidates, in order to define the appropriate migration approach. Further, Crawler360^™ will provide a lineage view for the data pipelines feeding Hadoop, to develop the migration plan for repointing those pipelines to the cloud target.

SHIFT^™ ANALYZER will scan the Hadoop applications to identify the complete code inventory, complexity of objects and "x-factors" that will require custom solutions when moving to the cloud.

Automating Code Translation: Next Pathway leverages a vast knowledge base of solutions to help address common Hadoop to cloud implementation scenarios. They will get your legacy Hadoop code 100% translated and QA-ready incredibly fast, so you can begin testing cycles immediately and with higher confidence.

SHIFT™ TRANSLATOR will automatically translate all Hadoop code, such as Hive, Impala and others to the target cloud platform syntax.

Managing and Accelerating Cut-Over: SHIFT™ TESTER will automate key aspects of code and data validation testing when completing the migration project, in order to accelerate end-to-end testing efforts. This ensures all translated code not only compiles and executes with the expected results in the cloud target, but is achieving the right data results with optimization accounted for.

Crawler360^™ will identify dependencies to downstream applications like BI or Analytics tools, in order to define the appropriate migration approach while identifying optimization and consolidation opportunities along the way.

Superior Cloud Migration Services

Clients that engage in their services will benefit from their years of experience, superior cloud migration software, robust knowledgebase of best practices and the comfort that they are working with a partner that has successfully migrated hundreds of companies to the cloud.

SHIFT Cloud: It is the next generation code translation software that can automatically migrate legacy workloads from data warehouses and data lakes to any cloud target. SHIFT Cloud can be accessed as a Software as a Service (SaaS) model or deployed directly into a customer’s environment. Giving ultimate flexibility to how customers want to manage their cloud migrations. Next Pathway’s Migration Planning Toolkit ensures your migration plan is both time efficient and cost effective. The goal is to develop a comprehensive plan and identify any potential risks/issues that may delay your production deployment.

Their Migration Planning and Set-Up services include:

• Project Governance, including RACI, Team Model, Project Plan, Communication Strategy and Budget
• Sizing of the cloud environment working in collaboration with your cloud platform partner
• Reference Architecture Review
• Data Migration Plan, and preparations for Proof of Concepts to test various data strategies
• Code Translation Plan including analysis of your legacy code and development of the optimal wave plan to expedite testing and cutover
• Testing Plan
• Identification of key risks/issues and mitigation strategies
• Parallel Run, Delta-Catchup, and Cut-Over strategy
• Ongoing Technical Training of staff and support

When migrating legacy workloads to a cloud target, one of the critical aspects of the migration is moving your historical data. Their data migration planning activities include a thorough review of how your historical data will be migrated and the ongoing ingestion of data into the cloud target. Migration testing can be daunting. Next Pathway takes charge of planning and overseeing integration and system testing. Clients will be able to leverage their vast knowledge base, giving them confidence that testing complex legacy systems will be performed with a high degree of integrity and coverage. Getting your cloud data warehouse ready for production involves multiple activities, both in terms of operational preparation, environment tuning, performance optimization and triaging/resolving issues during parallel run.

TESTER: It automatically generates and executes test cases to accelerate QA timelines. TESTER auto-generates and executes test cases and creates structurally and referentially correct test data, giving you the confidence that your translated and tested code can be handed over for final User Acceptance Testing.

The Leader Upfront

Chetan Mathur is the Chief Executive Officer of Next Pathway. He has over 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur and technology executive. Chetan founded Sage Information Consultants in 1992, an international technology integrator that specialized in the development of banking and brokerage software. He orchestrated the sale of Sage in June 2000 to a NASDAQ listed company.

In the role of CEO, Chetan sets the technology vision and strategic direction to keep the company at the forefront of the cloud industry. Next Pathway builds innovative technology to solve the biggest challenges when clients are migrating legacy applications to the cloud; the firm was recently listed as one of the hottest start-ups by the Globe and Mail. Touted as the Automated Cloud Migration Company, Next Pathway accelerates the end-to-end migration of complex applications and workloads to the cloud.

Chetan is also involved in numerous charitable organizations. He is one of the Founding Patron’s and served on the Board of Directors of Luminato, a large multi-arts festival, for over 10 years. Previously, Chetan also served on the Board of Governors for Roy Thomson/Massey Hall. Currently, Chetan is a member of the Board of Directors for the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), a charitable organization with a mission to transform the way people see the world through film.

Chetan graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science.

“Our end-to-end services are continuously being updated based on best practices but are also designed to be flexible so that they can be tailored to each client’s specific needs.”