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Cloud Migration

Migrate and mediate — at the same time.

Most migrations just relocate the mess. Lightning IQ scans, classifies, and mediates your data in flight — so what lands in the cloud is clean, compliant, and ready for action.

Up to 70%
less data moved
$1M+ / PB
saved on cloud ROT
TB / min
petabytes per hour
Any cloud
on-prem · AWS · Azure
Mediation pipeline
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Your data
Lightning IQ
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DUP
ROT
PII
dark
▼ filtered out
−70%
volume
100%
PII classified
arriving: clean · compliant · ready
scanning 1,248 sources

The problem

Why settle for lift-and-shift?

Lift-and-shift carries every duplicate, every orphaned file, and every unlabeled PII record straight into your new cloud — where you pay to store it, and inherit the risk of it. Whether you're leaving on-prem or moving between providers, your data should arrive better than it left.

Lift & shift
  • Duplicates moved & re-billed
  • Dark data hidden in the move
  • PII / PHI lands unclassified
  • Months of blind, costly transfer
Migrate & mediate
  • Redundancy removed before transfer
  • Dark data surfaced & resolved
  • Sensitive data found & classified
  • Clean cutover in days, not months

From moving data
to understanding data
— before it ever leaves.

Mediate before you migrate

Move up to 70% less data — and pay for it once.

Identify duplicate, redundant, obsolete and trivial data — indexed 100+ folders deep across your entire SAN — and leave it behind. Save up to $1M+ per petabyte of ROT in your new cloud.
Data footprint 70%
reduction before transfer
Before — raw estate10.0 PB
After mediation — migrated3.0 PB
ROT eliminated $1.2M saved / PB

Before you migrate

Examine, mediate, resolve while the data is still in place.

Lightning IQ reads the content, not just the label — scanning structured and unstructured sources to clean, classify, and de-risk your estate in a single pass.

DuplicatesDark dataPII · PHI · IPROT
Capability 01

Eliminate redundancy

Automatically detect and remove duplicate files before they ever hit the cloud — shrinking storage cost and streamlining the landscape you're about to migrate.

  • Byte-level & near-duplicate detection across every repository.
  • Index 100+ folders deep across your entire SAN and NAS.
  • Collapse redundancy to cut transfer volume and recurring spend.
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Capability 02

Discover dark data

Shine a light on forgotten, hidden, and orphaned data that quietly drains resources and creates compliance exposure — so nothing migrates by accident.

  • Map ownerless & stale files across shares and cloud drives.
  • Expose forgotten repositories never touched in years.
  • Decide with evidence — retain, re-tier, or retire each set.
dark / orphaned data surfaced
Capability 03

Identify sensitive information

Instantly locate and classify PII, PHI, and confidential content — across structured and unstructured sources — so regulated data is governed before it moves.

  • Regex, keyword & NLP detection surfaces unlabeled sensitive content.
  • Classify against HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA and internal policy.
  • Flag for redaction or restriction ahead of the cutover.
SSN · 9-digit
1,204
Patient records (PHI)
873
Payment card data
512
Confidential IP
1,640
Capability 04

Mediate before you migrate

Don't just move data — optimize it. Lightning IQ mediates your environment so only what's necessary, safe, and valuable makes the journey to the cloud.

  • Policy-driven decisions — retain, re-tier, or retire each dataset.
  • Right-tier on arrival — hot, cool, or archive in the new cloud.
  • Audit-ready record of every decision, before and after.
Mediation engine
retain · re-tier · retire

Velocity

Speed at scale, without compromise.

Process terabytes in minutes and petabytes in hours. Lightning IQ scans and analyzes 100 billion records — 24+ petabytes — per day, in any storage location. Built for velocity, with no accuracy traded away.

100B
records scanned per day
24+ PB
analyzed every 24 hours
1 PB
per hour
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Sustained 1 TB / minute full-text indexing

Multi-cloud

Any cloud. Any direction. In place.

Leaving on-prem or consolidating multi-cloud, Lightning IQ scans where the data lives — no movement required — then delivers a clean, classified estate to the destination of your choice.

Source
On-prem SAN / NAS
scanned in place
Existing cloud
S3 · Blob · file
scan · classify · mediate
Destination — clean
Amazon S3
✓ classified · tiered
Azure Blob
✓ classified · tiered

Visibility

Know your risk profile — as you migrate.

Gain insight into your entire company's risk profile in real time and at a glance, at the same moment you move your data. Detailed analytics and audit-ready reports keep every stakeholder aligned through cutover.

  • Reduce risk by identifying compliance-sensitive data before it moves.
  • Improve efficiency by eliminating clutter and legacy baggage.
  • Gain visibility with detailed analytics and audit-ready reports.
Migration Risk Monitor
live · last 24h
6.8PB
scanned
412K
PII flagged
68%
ROT removed
Data classified by function
Legal & Compliance28%
Finance22%
HR & People18%
Operations32%
Estate risk score
Low

The bottom line

Arrive clean. Arrive compliant. Arrive ready.

01

Move only what matters

Cull duplicates, ROT, and dark data before transfer. Shrink the footprint by up to 70% and stop paying to store what you don't need.

02

Migrate compliant by design

Locate and classify PII, PHI, and IP before the cutover, so regulated data lands governed — not as a liability you discover later.

03

Cut over with confidence

Real-time insight and audit-ready reporting turn a months-long guessing game into a clean, defensible move measured in days.

Fast changes everything

Join the Lightning IQ data revolution.

Don't just move your data — transform it. Scan, classify, and mediate your entire estate so it arrives clean, compliant, and ready for action.