Typically, during a merger or acquisition, the new company will retain the best elements of each individual company. But what about when it comes to files? Most of the time, an acquisition or merger involves doing a large-scale data migration from one system to another. It might be cloud to cloud or from a server to the cloud. 

Speed is one of the most important parts of a data migration. Data movement needs to be fast to be worthwhile. And when it comes to speed, Movebot's one of the fastest cloud data migration tools around. So how fast is fast?

Having a look at your cloud storage from an administrator point of view can often be confusing, especially when it comes to identifying how much data you actually have across your platform and within folders. Google not counting Google Docs size doesn't help and having file versions can often add extra data where you don't expect it. 

You were happy with your cloud storage provider. Then, they changed. No longer would they offer the same features, price, or support that you needed. So you gave them an ultimatum: Think about your needs or you’re leaving them for good. 

When they responded that they were happy with the way they’ve become, you made good on your word and decided to go. But, you have a lot of stuff at their place, and need it out. Are you going to do it all yourself or have the movers stop by and handle everything for you? 

A common question asked is whether Movebot can assist with migrating content, users and team folders between Dropbox accounts. The answer; yes it can.

Migrating between Dropbox accounts is the same process as migrating from Google Drive to Dropbox, or from an on-premises file server to Dropbox, the only difference is Dropbox (or Dropbox Business) will be both the source and destination platform in the migration. You can also migrate between Dropbox Personal accounts and Dropbox Business accounts.

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.

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.

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.

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.