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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