Data estates are becoming increasingly heterogeneous as data grows exponentially and spreads across data centers, edge devices, and multiple public clouds.In addition to the complexity of managing data across different environments, the lack of a unified view of all the assets, security and governance presents an additional challenge.

Modernizing and migrating SQL Server is just one of the many reasons why a company might want to migrate its data. Other common reasons may include mergers, hardware upgrades or moving to the cloud. In most cases, however, data migrations are associated with downtime, data loss, operational disruptions, and compatibility problems.