This document introduces Syncsort DMX-h Release 8, which provides a complete solution for offloading legacy workloads to Hadoop. Key features include: - An intelligent execution layer that isolates users from Hadoop's underlying complexities. - The ability to design ETL jobs once and deploy them on-premises, in the cloud, with or without Hadoop. - End-to-end data ingestion capabilities for Hadoop, including from mainframes, databases, JSON, Avro, Parquet, and NoSQL sources.