With the current trend in the migration market being on-premises file servers and shares to the cloud, it is only fitting that migrating to a cloud storage platform such as Dropbox aligns with businesses digital transformation and resilience strategy. The benefits of migrating to a platform that is agnostic such as Dropbox are the cost vs hosting infrastructure, the security and ability for users to collaborate without VPNs, its ability to work with both Google Workspace and O365 for document editing and collaboration and when comparing Dropbox to the likes of SharePoint, Dropbox does not charge for data but only users. When your data reaches a certain threshold in SharePoint, SharePoint struggles handle the amount of data and comes to a grinding halt, but also pricing becomes prohibitive.

Topics: On-Premise, File Server, Cloud File Transfer, Cloud Migration, Dropbox, Google Drive, File Share

Box recently announced its new Box Shuttle service which provides 10TB free when using its self-service tool for primarily lift and shift migrations from common storage providers (Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.). This new service comes off the bat of Box’s acquisition of Cloud FastPath earlier this year. Should you have more than 10TB  or a more complex migration (Egnyte, S3, GCP, Azure) then the price is $500/TB.

Topics: On-Premise, File Server, Cloud File Transfer, Cloud Migration, OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive, box, SharePoint, File Share, cloud fastpath, box shuttle

For many organizations the consideration of moving their documents and files into enterprise cloud storage such as SharePoint and Dropbox is a priority. This priority has been driven not only for companies wishing to stay agile and flexible, but primarily due to the remote work phase that has taken place since COVID-19. Having a legacy file server sitting in a datacentre or a cabinet in an office has been seen to be unproductive and costly for organizations looking to enable their remote workforce. From a productivity view, the inability to easily collaborate with a file server hinders teams as VPNs and other barriers negatively impacts a user experience. From a technology perspective, a file server does not have the resilience nor redundancy and is a large capital and continuous support expense.

Topics: Cloud Storage, Cloud File Transfer, Cloud Migration, Team Migration, SharePoint

Google Drive migrations are straightforward and simple in contrast to migrating into the likes of SharePoint. Although there are a couple things to consider prior to migrating a single file. We will briefly cover six key items to keep in mind prior to migrating into Google Drive, whether you have 5 users or 100,000 or 500GB or 300TB, these five items apply.

Topics: Cloud Storage, Cloud File Transfer, Cloud Migration, Google Drive, Team Migration, Google Workspace

If you need a fast data migration tool then you need to consider not only the time it takes to transfer data, but the cost of standing up the infrastructure and your engineering time to get the migration going, as well as dealing with any errors, failures or bumps in the road.  Movebot is a fully hosted tool that is simple and fast to setup and can migrate 10TBs or millions of files into the likes of Google Drive within a day.

Topics: On-Premise, File Server, Cloud File Transfer, Cloud Migration, no infrastructure, storage migration

When you are deciding on a content migration tool to migrate data into the likes of Google Drive, SharePoint, Dropbox or even block storage you need to consider the requirements of the tools and what is actually required before you can consider migrating a single file or user. A lot of tools require you to host their software within cloud infrastructure such a GCP, or Azure which induces further costs on top of the licensing cost you're already paying for. This also adds additional support complexity and creates barriers when it comes to migrating data. 

Topics: On-Premise, File Server, Cloud File Transfer, Cloud Migration, Google Drive, no infrastructure

Migrating files and content into Google Drive, users or shared drives can be straightforward. There are only two limitations when migrating into Google, one being shared drive limits and the other is a daily upload limit per user, however both are easy to work with, especially compared to the likes of SharePoint that has restrictions on character types and file path lengths. Migrating out of Google is a different story, but migrating in, is very simple. Below we will cover the two limitations of Google Drive and how you can work around them or with them. 

Topics: On-Premise, File Server, Cloud File Transfer, Cloud Migration, Google Drive, Limitations

Migrate files, drives and users from an on-premises file server into Dropbox and Dropbox team drives. Movebot makes the leap from legacy to modern easy and simple. Movebot does it at a cost-effective price and does it quickly and carefully. There is no need to host infrastructure or deal with a complex migration process. 

Topics: On-Premise, File Server, Cloud File Transfer, Cloud Migration, Dropbox, On-Premises, local storage, Dropbox Business

Migrate files, drives and users from an on-premises file server into Google Drive and Google shared drives. Movebot makes the leap from legacy to modern easy and simple. Movebot does it at a cost-effective price and does it quickly and carefully. There is no need to host infrastructure or deal with a complex migration process. 

Topics: On-Premise, File Server, Cloud File Transfer, Cloud Migration, Google Drive, On-Premises, local storage

Migrate your organization's content, sites, versions and permissions from SharePoint into Google Drive and shared drives. Movebot simplifies this migration, at a cost-effective price and does in a quick and careful manner. There is no need to host infrastructure or deal with a complex migration process. 

Topics: On-Premise, File Server, Cloud File Transfer, Cloud Migration, Google Drive, SharePoint

Migrate your organization's content, users, versions and permissions from Box into Google Drive and shared drives. Movebot simplifies this migration, at a cost-effective price and does in a quick and careful manner. There is no need to host infrastructure or deal with a complex migration process. 

Topics: On-Premise, File Server, Cloud File Transfer, Cloud Migration, Google Drive, box

Looking to migrate your organization's content, users, versions from Egnyte private folders and public folders into Google Drive and shared drives? Movebot can simplify this migration, at a cost-effective price and do so quickly and safely. There is absolutely no need to host infrastructure or deal with a complex migration process. 

Topics: On-Premise, File Server, Cloud File Transfer, Cloud Migration, Google Drive, Egnyte

If you're looking to migrate a large organization, we're talking 10's of thousands to 100's of thousands of users, or 100's of terabytes to a petabyte, knowing where to start can be difficult. Not only do you have the human element of the migration and working through change management, but you also need to find the right tool that keeps the process simple, cost-effective and can handle migrations of this size. 

Topics: On-Premise, File Server, Cloud File Transfer, Cloud Migration, OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive, box, SharePoint, File Share, CloudM

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. 

Topics: On-Premise, File Server, Cloud File Transfer, Cloud Migration, OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive, box, SharePoint, File Share, CloudM

A simple and cost-effective cloud fastpath alternative is Movebot. Movebot is  completely cloud hosted and managed, you can just sign up and use it, not to mention it is 70% more cost-effective than Cloud FastPath. 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. 

Topics: On-Premise, File Server, Cloud File Transfer, Cloud Migration, OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive, box, SharePoint, File Share, cloud fastpath

Google Drive Enterprise (Workspace) migrations can be complex and there aren't any migration tools that make the process easy or simple. Google has some quirks, such as daily upload limits. Movebot is a simple to use, fast and cost-effective Google Drive migration tool. Movebot's pricing starts at 0.39 cents and scales from there, even more Movebot offers partners 20-40% margin on all migrations.

Topics: On-Premise, File Server, Cloud File Transfer, Cloud Migration, OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive, box, SharePoint, File Share, mover

Mover was acquired by Microsoft towards the end of 2019, due to this there has been a gap in the market for an easy, accessible migration tool. Movebot is easy, simple and accessible, as well, it's the most cost-effective migration tool. Movebot's pricing starts at 0.39 cents per GB and goes down based on your data volume. Additionally Movebot offers all service provider partners 20-40% discount on all migrations. Movebot is fully cloud hosted which means you don't need to install any software or manage infrastructure, finally it supports cloud to cloud, and on-premise file systems to the cloud. 

Topics: On-Premise, File Server, Cloud File Transfer, Cloud Migration, OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive, box, SharePoint, File Share, mover

If you are looking to migrate your business's Google Workspace or your individual Google Drive into Microsoft's OneDrive this can prove to be difficult and take a long time, especially when you have a large amount of data or users.

 

Google and OneDrive are fundamentally different in how they handle data, Google for one is a bit of a wild west where you can have duplicate files, it supports Google Doc format (which no one else does) and accepts all character types and formats. Contrary OneDrive does not allow duplicate files in the same folder, supports Microsoft's file formats and has character limitations. Due to just these reasons, moving between Google Drive and OneDrive can cause headaches and unwanted stress. 

 

Topics: On-Premise, File Server, Cloud File Transfer, Cloud Migration, OneDrive, Google Drive, File Share

Box is a leader when it comes to cloud content and governance. It integrates with the Google and Microsoft ecosystems, but also offers in depth reporting and compliance functionality. Transitioning from your current storage platform  can be daunting, then add additional complexity, especially when it comes to migrating hundreds to thousands of users and package that with content, permissions and versions. Migrating to Box doesn’t have to be scary, or over complicated — this is where migrations tools such as Movebot can assist and remove the complexity.

 

Topics: On-Premise, File Server, Cloud File Transfer, Cloud Migration, box, File Share

After the year that has been, it's clear that the need for businesses to migrate to the cloud is paramount. This is not only to enable collaboration for those working from home, but also to ensure data security is governed correctly and maintained throughout the work day. It's time to remove the pesky VPNs that keep breaking and reboot that old file server into the cloud. 

To help businesses migrate their users, content and data structure into the cloud, Movebot has released an easy to run agent that works across Windows machines. There is still no need to install any software, it runs as a simple executable that turns your file server into "just another cloud" for Movebot to migrate from. 

 

Topics: On-Premise, File Server, Cloud File Transfer, Cloud Migration, Dropbox, box, Egnyte, SharePoint, File Share