CloudM Alternative | Simple, Fast, Cost-Effective and No Infrastructure needed

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3 min readJan 24, 2021

A simple and cost-effective CloudM alternative is Movebot. Movebot is completely cloud hosted and managed there is no need to run your own infrastructure or spin up your own servers. Movebot is also 70% more cost-effective than CloudM as you only pay per GB and not per user/seat — as well there are no subscriptions. Additionally, Movebot supports you with your migrations and offers real engineers for support and is a widely used data migration tool by service providers globally.

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Movebot’s pricing starts at 0.39 cents per GB for the first 10 TB and then scales down to 0.29 cents per GB from then on. If you have more than 50 TB there is additional pricing discounts for scale. Not to mention Movebot provides service provider partners 20–40% margin on all migrations.

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Cost-effective migrations

As Movebot is fully cloud hosted, it means that you don’t need to manage the infrastructure or install any software. Additionally, due to this Movebot can scale to meet your demand. Each transfer (user, drive, site, etc.) is run on its own dedicated compute node (worker) ensuring that not only are migrations secure, but also performant. With this you can add more compute to your larger transfers to increase the performance and throughput. Due to this it doesn’t matter if you have 100 users or 120,000, Movebot’s infrastructure is scalable and is used by service providers across the globe to migrate large amounts of data.

Movebot supports all storage platforms whether they are cloud (Google Drive, SharePoint, Dropbox, Box, Egnyte, Amazon S3, etc.) or an on-premise file system (NAS, file share or file server).

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Some of the supported platforms

Movebot performs error handling to streamline your migrations and ensure you don’t leave anything behind. Movebot will automatically correct character or file type issues that may crop up during the migration and convert Google Docs into Microsoft Format on the fly. Additionally you can get a full report on your data, or see the flagged issues before you even move a file. Movebot also supports all your desired enterprise features from migrating file versions, permissions, metadata and being able to run delta migrations (sync of modified files).

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An example of Movebot error handling

Another option that you have is the ability to run a preflight discovery scan across your source platform which performs a discovery scan of your source data platform and will show you any errors that may be encountered, a breakdown of the data structure and information on the content.

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Reporting and Analytics through Movebot’s

Movebot keeps migrations simple, whether it is, hundreds of users or thousands of users, on-premise to the cloud, or cloud to cloud. It’s always simple, fast and cost-effective.

Head to movebot.io and begin your migration today. For a detailed guide on migrating to your destination head to Movebot’s knowledge base.

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Originally published at https://www.movebot.io.

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