Barbara Donatien is manager of attest services at BARR Advisory, a cybersecurity and compliance solutions provider serving companies with high-value information in cloud environments like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

“There are many different types of data migration that are relevant in our current tech environment…”

Data migration is beneficial because it helps improve performance and streamline processes. One example is cloud migration. Moving to the cloud can help organizations cut costs and improve security. This trend has been around for a while, and largely due to the savings and security benefits, it isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.

Looking beyond 2022, the most important and relevant data migration trend I foresee revolves around artificial intelligence (AI). We can think of AI as an umbrella term that encompasses many different tools and trends. For example, machine learning is just one type of AI that is similar to automation.

Artificial intelligence is the most important data migration trend to watch in 2023 and beyond because of the huge swaths of data that are generated today, by both humans and machines. AI forms the basis for computer learning, which improves analytics and represents the future of complex decision making.