Fixed-scope offers · 03/03
Data platform cost review
Licences, servers and slow jobs add up. We measure where your platform spends time and money, list quick wins, and show what a staged move to an open stack would cost and save.
In short
From
€4,200net
- Duration
- 2 weeks
- Who leads it
- A data platform architect who has led migrations off Cloudera, with a performance engineer for the profiling.
What you get
- A breakdown of platform costs: licences, infrastructure, operations.
- Profiling of the heaviest jobs with concrete tuning recommendations.
- Quick wins you can implement without a migration.
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Where this leads
Measured results from projects of this kind, at our clients.
Who it is for
01
Companies running Cloudera, Hadoop or a self-managed Spark platform with rising costs.
02
Teams whose platform is too slow for analytics and machine learning.
03
Organisations that must keep data on-premise but want a modern stack.
What you get
01
A breakdown of platform costs: licences, infrastructure, operations.
02
Profiling of the heaviest jobs with concrete tuning recommendations.
03
Quick wins you can implement without a migration.
04
Target options: Spark on Kubernetes, Trino, cloud or hybrid, with pros and cons for your case.
05
A staged migration plan with result comparison, rollback and a savings estimate range.
How it runs
Step 01
Inventory
Workloads, schedules, licences, hardware and who uses what.
Step 02
Profiling
We measure the heaviest jobs: data reads, partitioning, shuffles and queries.
Step 03
Target options
What a modern stack would look like under your constraints, including no internet access.
Step 04
Migration plan and business case
Stages, side-by-side comparison, rollback, and the savings range with its assumptions.
What can go wrong and how we handle it
- Savings depend on assumptions about future load.
- We give a range and write the assumptions down, so they can be checked and updated.
- Fear of breaking reports in a migration.
- The plan migrates in stages and compares results job by job before each switchover.
What happens next
You can implement the quick wins yourselves. If you go for the migration, we can run it with your team or as a complete Sofixit team.
Questions buyers ask
What did this look like in practice?
For a telecom company running 900,000 jobs a week on Cloudera we rebuilt the platform on Spark and Trino, in the client's data centre with no internet access. Processing became twice as fast and operating costs fell by 60%. Cloudera licence fees were eliminated.
Are you tied to a particular vendor?
No. We work with open-source components and recommend what fits your constraints.
Let's talk about your project
Order the review
Pick one problem.
Show us the data you have.
Let's agree a measurable goal.
Name the process and the data you have. An engineer, not a call centre, gets back to you.
We reply within one business day.