Ireland and the United Kingdom enterprise technology-change research

PT-2026-215 · dossier edition · 7 August 2026

PlatformTrace

Enterprise platform change across Ireland and the United Kingdom.

data-platform migration · underway

Virgin Media O2 stages legacy data-platform migrations to Google Cloud

Virgin Media O2 carried out distinct staged migrations from Hortonworks, Netezza and former O2 Teradata and Hadoop-era platforms toward Google Cloud data services; the Netezza on-premises platform was decommissioned while later cloud-native work continued.

Organisation
Virgin Media O2, United Kingdom
Predecessor
separate Hortonworks Hadoop, Netezza, former O2 Teradata and Hadoop-era data platforms
Destination
staged Google Cloud data platforms using BigQuery, Dataproc, Dataflow and Teradata Vantage on Google Cloud
Workload
Google Cloud data and analytics services
Stage
underway
Evidence boundary: The source describes several separate phases with different completion states. It does not support one universal completion date or retirement of every legacy and transitional component.

Verified platform change

Virgin Media O2 carried out distinct staged migrations from Hortonworks, Netezza and former O2 Teradata and Hadoop-era platforms toward Google Cloud data services; the Netezza on-premises platform was decommissioned while later cloud-native work continued.

Transition

From: separate Hortonworks Hadoop, Netezza, former O2 Teradata and Hadoop-era data platforms

To: staged Google Cloud data platforms using BigQuery, Dataproc, Dataflow and Teradata Vantage on Google Cloud

Known unknowns

The source describes several separate phases with different completion states. It does not support one universal completion date or retirement of every legacy and transitional component.

Official sources

  1. Virgin Media O2: Completing monumental data migration journey to Google Cloud — 2025-04-10
  2. Simplify your data platform migration with AI-powered BigQuery Migration Services — 2025-04-10

Updates

Source rechecked on 8 September 2026. The first-party Google Cloud evidence has not materially changed; the distinct staged migrations and their different completion states remain supported without a universal completion or total-retirement claim.