There are a number of reasons you may be looking to migrate from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®. Perhaps you want to cut costs or eliminate vendor lock-in, or you feel excited about participating in the vibrant open source community. No matter your reason for making the change, we’re confident you’ll find Apache Cassandra to be a powerful replacement for DataStax Enterprise and that it will provide you with maximal value over the long term. This white paper is a guide for migrating from DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra. It’s intended for solutions architects, engineers, IT Directors, or others on the front lines of planning and executing the migration.