If you’re sick of Microsoft controlling the backend of your business, Google says its new migration tool can get your ported to Google Apps in no time.
For a while now, Google has offered its Google Apps For Business (and Education) customers sync services with Outlook and Blackberries, and last year, it introduced a migration tool for users of Lotus Notes. As of today, the company is finally getting serious about taking over the office productivity tools world with the Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange utility.
Arguably, most businesses small and (especially) large use MS Exchange servers in-house for email and to store contacts and calendars shared among employees. Google claims its Migration utility provides a four-step process to get all that data ported to the cloud-based Apps for Business.
You simply enter credentials for the Exchange server and for the Google Apps account, provide a list of users (or set it to migrate the entire domain), and then pick which data you wish to migrate. Finally, you get some specifics on how much or when you wish to move the data–this way you can manage the bandwidth and continue to use the Exchange server as you go. Set the migration utility to run on multiple systems and that can help. Then let it rip.
Google says it has trotted the utility out to several test customers, big and small, to uniformly good reviews. However, if you’re not comfortable doing it yourself, the new Google Apps Marketplace might help. There are service providers who are now Google Apps partners that can offer advice, if not do the work outright of moving you from Exchange to Apps.
The Exchange Migration tool is free for any Google Apps for Business or Education subscribers. (It’s not for the standard edition, once called Google Apps for Your Domain, which provides Apps to smaller organizations or groups, or even families and very small businesses–anyone with their own domain name).
Google Apps for Business costs $50 per user per year and includes 25GB of storage per user, secure connections, and service-level agreement guarantees of 99.9 percent up-time.
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