Use the right tool for the job!
When is it best to use Movebot?
Migrations can be complex, there’s a lot of change going on in an organization at the time, one significant and often emotive change relates to migrating email platforms. Email migrations have been around for quite some time and there are a number of reputable vendors providing these services and dealing with the complexity associated with them. When it comes to moving data these vendors products have evolved around email complexity, and that complexity has been applied to file data migrations. This legacy architecture often means that you have to spin up virtual machines and host data at rest in these products. The result is a platform that struggles to move data quickly and efficiently, and a business model that is based on a cost per user basis and additional data charges typically in the range of $1 / Gb!
Migrating files on the other hand is often more complex than emails, and not all users have equal amounts of data. This is where the user based pricing model breaks down and results in a slow and expensive data migration.
On the other hand what Movebot does really well is fast, secure and efficient file data migrations. Movebot has been architected from the ground up as an easy to use cloud native migration tool. Movebot is cloud agnostic migrating data between over 30 cloud providers as well as on premise file servers to the cloud or vice versa. Movebot also treats data as just that — data, Movebot doesn’t care how many users there are in an organisation 10 or 10,000, it’s not relevant to file data migrations. What is important is how much data there is to be migrated and are there any issues that can be addressed prior to a migration. To help with this Movebot enables a free scan of your source data, providing insights into how much data there is to be migrated and great reporting on any potential issues as well as those that the platform will fix during the migration. With this information it's easy to calculate the cost of a migration. Movebot is priced at US$0.39/Gb, with discounts for MSP’s and large 50TB + migrations.
How does it stack up in a comparison?
Let’s look at an organisation with 100 users and 40TB of data.
Option 1
Vendor A Email migration vendor — Price per user $40 and 100Gb of data per user included, with extra data charged at $1 per Gb.
100 x $40 = $4,000 covers emails and 10TB of data
Extra data = 30,000 x $1 = $30,000
Time to complete data migration ~ 2–3 Months
Total project cost = $34,000 + Admin overhead (time spent, paying for infrastructure and egress data)
Option 2
Movebot — file data migration $0.39 x 40,000 = $15,600
Time to complete data migration, including delta migrations 5–7 days
Speed is king, with Movebot file data transfers of 5–10TB per day are expected between performant cloud platforms Dropbox, Google, Box, Egnyte. (Microsoft restricts API calls and data migrations to between 2–500Gb / day, on premise server migrations are dependent on server performance and internet speeds but can be scheduled to maximise throughput)
Option 3 Movebot data migration + vendor A email migration
Total project cost including using vendor A for email migration = $4,000 + $15,600 = $19,600 which is 90% faster and 40% more cost effective.
Using the right tool for the job makes sense, use a email migration vendor to migrate emails and Movebot to migrate data — the result is a faster lower cost migration and a successful seamless migration.
For more information visit movebot.io or to get started on your migration sign up for an account or reach out to sales@movebot.io
