Scale AI in IBM watsonx.data with Cirata Data Migrator

Written by Paul Scott-Murphy, CTO, Cirata

Cirata announces the general availability of Data Migrator 3.0, with full support for IBM watsonx.data. Cirata and IBM continue to collaborate on their partnership with a focus of driving data and simplifying integrations to watsonx.data. The release of Data Migrator 3.0 includes support for migrations to watsonx.data and provides data availability in the open lakehouse to scale AI and analysis across businesses.

• Cirata enables watsonx.data users to fully utilize multiple open engines to scale AI everywhere.
• Data Migrator facilitates watsonx.data’s open ecosystem with metadata migrations to Hive Metastore and Iceberg tables.
• Data Migrator streamlines GenAI workflows and provides near real-time data to end users for their workloads.
  
  

Migrate data to watsonx.data

IBM watsonx.data provides multi-engine interoperability to allow users to flexibly manage cost, performance and capability. Cirata Data Migrator 3.0 can now make data accessible to multiple compute engines in watsonx.data including Presto, Presto C++, Spark, Milvus and more. Data Migrator provides the capability to migrate data from a variety of on-premises data sources to watsonx.data’s S3-compatible storage, enabling users to efficiently and automatically use their existing data with it. With Data Migrator’s unique technology, any changes to data on premises are immediately migrated to watsonx.data, providing end users near real-time access to changing datasets for their workloads.

Data Migrator ecosystem

Using Cirata Data Migrator, you can have a single copy of data across multiple workloads in watsonx.data’s open ecosystem, where you can unify data access and extend compatibility with open standards like Hive Metastore and Apache Iceberg tables. In addition to data migration, Cirata’s Data Migrator provides support for migrating metadata to the Apache Iceberg open table format and the watsonx.data Hive Metastore. Providing both data and metadata migration, Data Migrator automates moving large amounts of structured and unstructured data to make it available in a format that can be used directly in watsonx.data.

Streamline workflows with Data Migrator

By combining Cirata Data Migrator and IBM watsonx.data, businesses looking to utilize IBM watsonx.data applications for analysis or AI processing can count on Cirata’s partnership and collaboration to make data available efficiently in watsonx.data. Businesses looking to unify, curate, and prepare data to improve the relevance and precision of AI output can count on Data Migrator to help automate data pipelines. As watsonx.data continues to expand data format support, recently AVRO and ORC, and other storage technologies, Data Migrator can ensure data availability. With Data Migrator's intuitive UI and various data integrity features, end users can migrate their data with confidence and efficiently enable GenAI workloads with watsonx.data’s open ecosystem.

Cirata Data Migrator 3.0 is now generally available, with licensing models to suit subscription, pay-as-you-go, or pre-paid data volumes. Cirata provides comprehensive support options, helping to power data migration, disaster recovery, interoperability and availability requirements for many of the world’s largest financial institutions, automotive companies, telecommunications providers and more. Learn more at cirata.com.