Data Center Migration Market Report 2026

The data center migration market size has grown rapidly in recent years. It will grow from $14.36 billion in 2025 to $16.81 billion in 2026 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17%. The growth in the historic period can be attributed to legacy data center consolidation, rising maintenance costs of on-premises infrastructure, early adoption of virtualization, demand for improved disaster recovery, increasing need for application modernization.

The data center migration market size is expected to see rapid growth in the next few years. It will grow to $31.22 billion in 2030 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16.7%. The growth in the forecast period can be attributed to growth of hybrid cloud operating models, increasing compliance and data sovereignty requirements, demand for workload portability across clouds, rising adoption of container platforms, need for cost optimization and finops governance. Major trends in the forecast period include cloud-to-cloud migration acceleration, hybrid and multi-cloud migration programs, AI-driven migration planning and optimization, zero-downtime cutover and live migration, security-first migration with compliance automation.

The rising adoption of cloud-based solutions is expected to drive the growth of the data center migration market in the coming years. Cloud-based solutions refer to information technology (IT) services, storage, and applications hosted on remote servers and accessed via the internet, offering scalability, flexibility, and cost efficiency. The increase in adoption is driven by scalability and flexibility, as these solutions allow businesses to adjust resources on demand without significant upfront infrastructure costs. Data center migration facilitates this shift by enabling organizations to move key systems, workloads, and applications from on-premises infrastructure to cloud environments, optimizing performance, reducing costs, and enhancing business continuity. For example, in September 2025, IT Desk UK Ltd., a UK-based IT support provider, reported that 96% of enterprises use some form of cloud service, and global cloud infrastructure spending is projected to reach $912 billion by the end of 2025. Therefore, the rising adoption of cloud-based solutions is fueling the growth of the data center migration market.

Key companies in the data center migration market are focusing on developing technologically advanced solutions, such as agentic artificial intelligence (AI)-driven migration orchestration, to accelerate large-scale transitions from legacy systems to cloud landing zones. Agentic AI-driven migration orchestration uses autonomous software agents to discover applications and dependencies, generate migration plans, convert networks, and optimize target instances, reducing manual effort and cutover risk across hybrid environments. For instance, in May 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS), a US-based cloud computing company, launched AWS Transform (GA), a service that applies agentic AI to modernize and migrate VMware, mainframe, and.NET workloads by automating discovery, dependency mapping, migration planning, network conversion, and EC2 optimization for complex data center migrations. The solution automates end-to-end discovery, assessment, and conversion workflows through specialized AI agents, significantly shortening migration timelines. Its purpose is to provide a unified, AI-assisted path for moving enterprise data center workloads into AWS, accelerating modernization in cloud migration initiatives.

In May 2024, Kyndryl Holdings Inc., a US-based IT infrastructure services company, acquired Skytap for an undisclosed amount. Through this acquisition, Kyndryl aims to strengthen its hybrid cloud and data center migration services, enabling clients to run traditional on-premises systems in public cloud environments such as Microsoft Azure and IBM Cloud. Skytap is a US-based cloud services company specializing in data center migration and modernization.

Major companies operating in the data center migration market are Amazon Web Services Inc., Google LLC, Microsoft Corporation, Dell Technologies Inc., International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), Cisco Systems Inc., Oracle Corporation, NTT Communications Corporation, Fujitsu Limited, DXC Technology Company, Atos SE, Equinix Inc., Veritis Group Inc., Unity Group Sp. z o.o., SoftwareONE Holding AG, Nous Infosystems Pvt. Ltd., ELEKS Ltd., Trigent Software Inc., N-iX LLC, Scalefocus AD.

North America was the largest region in the data center migration market in 2025. Asia-Pacific is expected to be the fastest-growing region in the forecast period. The regions covered in the data center migration market report are Asia-Pacific, South East Asia, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East, Africa. The countries covered in the data center migration market report are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, Russia, South Korea, UK, USA, Canada, Italy, Spain.

Tariffs have created both cost pressures and supply chain delays for the data center migration market by increasing the price of imported servers, storage systems, networking equipment, and security appliances used in migration and modernization projects. The impact is most visible in hardware-heavy engagements such as storage migration, network remediation, and on-premises to cloud transition programs where refreshed infrastructure is required before cutover. Regions such as North America and parts of Asia-Pacific are most affected due to reliance on imported data center components and global sourcing of enterprise-grade equipment. Tariffs also raise implementation timelines by limiting availability of specific SKUs and increasing vendor lead times, which can slow large enterprise migrations. At the same time, tariffs are encouraging diversification of suppliers, greater use of cloud-native migration services, and higher adoption of software-led migration tools to reduce dependency on physical infrastructure. Vendors are optimizing migration architectures, strengthening local sourcing, and offering more standardized service packages to control project costs. Overall, tariffs are accelerating cloud-first migration strategies while improving supply chain resilience for critical infrastructure upgrades.

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Data center migration is the process of relocating an organization’s applications, data, and workloads from one data center environment to another, encompassing planning, transfer, testing, and cutover. Its purpose is to enhance reliability and performance, reduce costs, address security or compliance requirements, and better align the infrastructure with current business objectives.

The key service types of data center migration include cloud migration, application migration, database migration, storage migration, and others. Cloud migration involves moving data, applications, and workloads from on-premises infrastructure to cloud environments to improve scalability, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. It is implemented through both on-premises and cloud models and serves small, medium, and large enterprises. Key applications include data storage, management, backup, recovery, and others, supporting end-user industries such as banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI), information technology and telecommunications, healthcare, retail, government, and more.

The data center migration market includes revenues earned by entities through ssessment and discovery, migration planning and design, application or data or workload migration, infrastructure relocation and consolidation, and post-migration validation and cutover management, and related cloud readiness and strategy, refactoring and modernization, data center decommissioning, managed operations or support, and compliance and security remediation. The market value includes the value of related goods sold by the service provider or included within the service offering. Only goods and services traded between entities or sold to end consumers are included.

The market value is defined as the revenues that enterprises gain from the sale of goods and/or services within the specified market and geography through sales, grants, or donations in terms of the currency (in USD unless otherwise specified).

The revenues for a specified geography are consumption values that are revenues generated by organizations in the specified geography within the market, irrespective of where they are produced. It does not include revenues from resales along the supply chain, either further along the supply chain or as part of other products.

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