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5 Signs Your Data Migration Will Miss Its Deadline

Data migrations rarely miss their deadlines because of data volume. They miss because of process failures that were visible months earlier — and all five...

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6 Questions to Ask Before You Pick a Data Migration Tool

Most data migration tool evaluations focus on the wrong things: connector counts, UI polish, vendor reputation. The questions that actually predict whether a tool will...

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Netezza Migrations: 4 Things People Get Wrong

Most Netezza migration failures aren’t caused by data volume or complexity — they’re caused by teams carrying Postgres assumptions into a completely different appliance. The...

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Netezza Migration: Avoiding Downtime Challenges

nz_migrate is not suitable for Netezza migrations where business downtime is an issue, despite being IBM’s recommended method. Learn why.

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Unlocking Seamless Data Replication from Netezza to Databricks with Smart Data Frameworks

Smart Data Frameworks (SDF) can now be used to migrate and continuously replicate data from IBM Netezza to Databricks.

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How to Migrate to CP4D with Minimal User Downtime

When upgrading your Netezza system to IBM® Netezza® Performance Server for Cloud Pak® for Data you will want to minimize system downtime. Read how Smart Management Frameworks’ Smart Database Replication feature can reduce this to virtually zero.

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A Smart Data Migration Tool

In this blog post we’ll explore the nuts and bolts of the data migration and the tools involved that will do the heavy lifting for you.

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An Easy Data Migration – Is There Such A Thing?

Is there such thing as an easy data warehouse migration? In this post, we talk about how no two data migrations are the same and explain the different data types you have to take into consideration.

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A Smart Data Frameworks Case Study

In this blog we share a case study relating to a health care client. Smart Associates worked with them to introduce a new data warehousing solution.

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