Google to Google Workspace file migrations with MSP’s
The team at Movebot has been reaching out to its global partners recently to connect with them and understand how they are using Movebot. Whilst they are using the Movebot platform to migrate data from the likes of SharePoint, on premise file servers, Box, Dropbox and others to Google. They are also using Movebot to migrate files, users and shared drives between Google tenants.
There are a number of reasons why Movebot is the migration tool of choice for MSP file migrations and Google to Google migrations.
- Simple to use! As a project based tool you need a tool that is intuitive to use and will do what you expect of it when it’s needed, at Movebot our mantra is keep things simple and the tool is designed accordingly to make life easier for MSP’s.
- Getting it right! Movebot’s free pre-flight scan of the source, highlights any issues that could cause a failed migration as well as issues that Movebot will automatically fix during the migration.
- Speed is king! Gone are the days where a migration takes weeks or even months, Movebot automatically scales to meet the task, there’s no need to provision and manage any infrastructure Movebot is fully cloud hosted and takes care of all of that — as such we regularly see 5–10TB’s of data transferred each day!
- Keeping users happy! Movebot’s delta migrations allows for users to update their files while the migration is taking place and then only move the updated data, minimizing the effect on users, thus making change management easier.
- Providing feedback! Movebot provides great reporting and visibility of your migration. Email notifications keep you informed of how the migration is progressing and if any issues have cropped up.
- Great support! Whilst the tool is easy to use there’s sometimes that curly question and the team at Movebot is here to help, and you can have a conversation with a real person. We like to teach how to fish and provide great support when needed.
Whilst Google is a great collaboration platform it has a couple of quirks, one being it allows duplication of files, mostly caused by accident by the user, Movebot automatically de-duplicates files during the migration. Additionally, with Google Drive, to bypass daily limits, you can easily load-balance across multiple users to increase the performance and speed of your migration when going into shared drives.
As previously mentioned, Movebot is fully cloud hosted, meaning that you don’t need to manage the infrastructure or install any software. Additionally, Movebot scales to meet your demand. Each transfer mapping (user, drive, site, etc.) is run on its own dedicated compute node (worker) ensuring that not only are migrations secure, but also very performant. Movebot allows you to 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 isn’t here to muck around.
Keeping business simple, there’s no vendor lock-in such as a monthly subscription (why pay for something when you are not using it) with Movebot it’s simply pay-as-you-go based on the Gb’s you migrate, it makes not sense to pay per user when some users may have little or no data to move. With public data rates at $0.39c / Gb and discounts for MSP’s why wouldn't you choose Movebot as your tool of choice for data migrations.
For more information visit movebot.io or to get started on your migration sign up for an account or reach out to sales@couchdrop.io
