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Water Cooler "Cloud Chat" with Walter Monasterio

Posted by Walter Monasterio, Microsoft Corporate & Regional SI Alliance Manager

In my day to day, I have a lot of conversations/debates around cloud application platforms and the services they offer for different workloads. The conversation topics are usually around application features, security, development, interoperability, and management. In terms of business productivity, Google is mentioned, Salesforce.com for CRM, and perhaps Google or Amazon for cloud application development. It seems to me that the mix and match of on-premises and cloud solutions, compounded with multiple cloud services, somewhat dilutes the value proposition that these solutions offer. Among the value propositions, presented are simplicity, ease of use, cost savings, and end user satisfaction. As far as I can see, Microsoft is the only provider that can deliver on these value propositions in a mixed application and location environment.

If I were an enterprise looking to move to the cloud to try and “do more with less” (yes …I said it), I would start my ROI/TCO homework by taking a look at what we have, examining my on-premises and cloud options, the cost to get there, and evaluate my in-house and partner IT skills. Then, I would like to see an example of my end state infrastructure (POC?) working together so I understand what my end users and subsequently, help desk, could expect. In a non-Microsoft scenario that would seem to involve negotiating with multiple vendors to get the individual products up and running, identifying and deploying viable and supported interoperability solutions, or find a partner to do this on your behalf. I suspect partners would find this equally as challenging and costly. Cloud Migration

Microsoft tries to simplify this challenge by offering Exchange on-premises and Exchange online for email; SharePoint on-premises and online for Collaboration, Portals, Development, ECM, Search, Wiki’s, and Blogs; Dynamics for CRM online; and Azure for hosted infrastructure, application development, and management. In addition to the applications themselves, they offer an array of resources, events, and partners that will let you come in and experience your future state.

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Posted on 4/28/2011 10:00:00 AM | with 0 comments

Microsoft Partner Mini Series with Binary Tree's Henry Bestritsky

In this Microsoft Partner Mini Series video starring Binary Tree's Co-CEO, Henry Bestritsky, Henry discusses Binary Tree's tremendous success as a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner as we continue migrating customers from the Lotus Notes and Domino messaging and application systems to the Microsoft Exchange email and SharePoint application platforms.

Like Henry states in the video, the Microsoft Partner Network empowers our success as we upgrade legacy Exchange users to the Microsoft Cloud. Also, Binary Tree's vast background with Lotus Notes gives us a great advantage when migrating Notes users to Exchange.

Since 1993, Binary Tree has migrated over 20,000,000 seats to the Microsoft platform worldwide. Today, with our E2E Complete product, we're able to easily and efficiently upgrade Exchange 2003 users to Exchange 2010 in order to provide our customers with the tools that they need to develop a collaborative environment for their users.

Binary Tree continues to take advantage of new Microsoft Exchange business opportunities while partnering with some of the largest GSIs in the world and continues to grow rapidly by migrating customers to the Microsoft platform.

Click HERE to watch the video.

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Posted on 3/9/2011 9:00:00 AM | with 0 comments

Binary Tree Co-CEO Steven Pivnik Talks to NJTC

The NJ Technology Council (NJTC) recently interviewed Binary Tree's Co-CEO, Steven Pivnik for their Corner Office Executive profile news feature. The interview provides great insight into everything from what Steven's currently reading to what drives and motivates him to spearhead one of the leading email and application migration companies in the world. To read the entire interview and to find out what's next for Binary Tree, click below:

Steven Pivnik - NJTC Corner Office Interview

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Posted on 2/17/2011 11:00:00 AM | with 0 comments

Introduction to Hosted Migrations and Weekend Express Services

Posted by Richard Dean, Senior Consultant

It is now 2011 and, in only one year, Binary Tree has successfully migrated 15 companies and approximately 50,000 seats globally to BPOS Standard. That’s over 25 Terabytes of migrated content …and we are just getting started. In 2011, we’ll be expanding our services and adding new capabilities. Also, we’re well into perfecting our migration processes for Microsoft Office 365 Cloud Services. As Microsoft's preferred vendor for migration solutions, we’re closely integrated and can provide our customers unparalleled services and options.

What is a Hosted Migration? A hosted migration is a remotely hosted Migration-as-a-Service (MaaS), which means you don’t need special migration software, hardware, or expertise. Quite literally, we can take you from a Lotus Notes and Domino environment to an Outlook and Microsoft Exchange Online environment without any special migration hardware, software, or expertise. In summary, this is a larger phased migration project spanning weeks.

What is Weekend Express? A Weekend Express migration is a remotely hosted Migration-as-a-Service (MaaS), which means you don’t need special migration software, hardware, or expertise. Quite literally, we can take you from operating Lotus Notes and Domino on Friday to being on Outlook and Microsoft Exchange Online on Monday morning. From on-premises to Software as a Service (SaaS) in one weekend! In summary this is a smaller, big bang migration project spanning a weekend or two.

At a high level, these are the two types of hosted migration services Binary Tree currently offers. Now for some insight into our methodologies …let’s dig in and cover the basics.

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Posted on 1/14/2011 9:30:00 AM | with 0 comments

Cloud Migrations: On-premises vs. Hosted Comparison

Posted by Vadim Gringolts, Chief Technology Officer

I've been involved with various mail migrations for a period of almost 15 years. Without exception, migration projects of the past included 2 major tasks:

Build a migration infrastructure
Create a migration team

Both tasks represented a significant amount of effort and cost, and their completion was the key to a successful migration project. That was then ...has anything changed now? Well, the answer depends on whether you are migrating to an on-premises messaging environment, to a hosted messaging environment, or migrating to the “the Cloud”.

If you are migrating to an on-premises email platform, the only real choices for you are "to build" or "to buy" the migration framework. "Build" means to allocate hardware, install software, assign and train personnel, and to execute the project. "Buy" means to acquire a physical or a virtual migration appliance operated by a specialized third-party. Which choice is better, simpler, or less expensive may be a topic for a separate posting; this one will focus on choices for the migration to the Cloud or, more specifically, the Microsoft Cloud, formerly known as BPOS and recently renamed as Office 365 (which is how I’ll be referencing it in this blog post).

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Posted on 1/11/2011 10:30:00 AM | with 0 comments