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.

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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

LIVE

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.

See it on your estate

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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−92% in this folder

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.

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.

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.

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.

Our Vision

Our Mission

Migrate and mediate — at the same time.

Why settle for lift-and-shift?

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

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

Eliminate redundancy

Discover dark data

Identify sensitive information

Mediate before you migrate

Speed at scale, without compromise.

Any cloud. Any direction. In place.

Know your risk profile — as you migrate.

Arrive clean. Arrive compliant. Arrive ready.

Move only what matters

Migrate compliant by design

Cut over with confidence

Join the Lightning IQ data revolution.