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Enabling Two Organizations to Collaborate as One After a Merger

Posted by Vadim Gringolts, CTO

For almost 20 years, I've had the opportunity to participate in numerous messaging projects accompanying corporate mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. Most of these projects had one theme in common - messaging integration was a component of the merger that was not given a great deal of consideration or time to plan and execute. More often than not, a seamless transition was simply assumed, and I don't have to tell you what happens when you assume. :-)

The fact is that corporate email and email-based applications are often overlooked during the planning of a post-merger IT integration or separation initiative. There are many factors that ultimately determine the level of success of an integration of corporate email environments. Some are quite common to all and some are very specific to each organization. Yet there are a couple of key aspects of these projects that are more visible and critically evaluated in rendering the verdict on the success or failure of the email integration.

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Posted on 2/24/2011 10:00:56 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