{"id":6685,"date":"2021-12-29T04:02:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T04:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viewmyprojects.com\/winwirewp\/?page_id=6685"},"modified":"2025-10-22T09:59:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:59:03","slug":"hadoop-to-databricks-migration-customer-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/viewmyprojects.com\/winwirewp\/hadoop-to-databricks-migration-customer-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Hadoop to Databricks Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Databricks, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Scala, IntelliJ Idea Community Edition, Unravel, Hive Shell, Spark2-shell, CDH, GitHub, Azure Cloud<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The customer is an American multinational\u202fcomputer software and creative giant incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in San Jose, California.  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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For a global leader in digital experiences, the challenge wasn\u2019t just about moving data. It was about creating a foundation for speed, scale, and governance \u2014 one that could power analytics and AI across the business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WinWire partnered with the company to migrate more than 200PB of data from Hadoop to Databricks, one of its most significant modernization programs. This multi-year effort not only shut down the Portland data center in April 2023 but also set the foundation for AI and analytics at scale, marking the start of a new era of cloud-first services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Legacy Hadoop architecture slows innovation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the business shifted to a subscription SaaS model, data demand exploded \u2014 but Hadoop couldn\u2019t keep pace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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