The new managed service offers automated migration of enterprise databases from on-premises or a cloud to Microsoft Azure databases

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The new service helps enterprises deploy new cloud-native applications. (Credit: Wynn Pointaux from Pixabay)

Microsoft has expanded its partnership with Striim to enable enterprises to speed up their data modernisation journey to Azure.

The new managed service provided by the two companies offers automated migration of enterprise databases from on-premises or a cloud to Microsoft Azure databases.

The new Striim Database Migration Service, StreamShift, helps enterprises modernise their business applications and deploy new cloud-native applications.

It is a new addition to Striim’s relationship with Microsoft that currently offers real-time data movement and in-stream transformations to Azure data and analytics services.

The new service supports enterprises moving from database sources such as Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and MongoDB to Microsoft Azure.

It helps in speeding up the transition to Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Database for MySQL, Azure Database for MariaDB, and Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

Microsoft Azure Data corporate vice president Rohan Kumar said: “Microsoft is committed to making migration to Azure as smooth as possible, while paving the way for continuous innovation for our customers.

“Our goal is to build technology that empowers today’s innovators to unleash the power of their data and explore possibilities that will improve their businesses and our world.

“We are pleased to work with Striim to provide our customers with a fast way to replicate their data to the Azure platform and gain mission-critical insights into data from across the organization.”

By ingesting high throughput data from multiple sources, Striim’s platform carries out in-line mapping and transformations before moving it to Azure Cloud Databases.

The company’s platform is an enterprise-grade data integration and streaming solution designed to move data in real-time to the cloud.

To make operational data readily available for reporting and analytics, Striim allows ongoing, continuous data replication from various sources, both on-premises and in the cloud.

It performs in-flight data processing before moving it with sub-second latency to Azure targets such as Azure Synapse, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Azure Event Hubs for real-time visibility into data across the enterprise.