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Notes from the migration floor
Short writing on archive moves, the awkward bits between platforms, and the evidence a finished job should leave behind.
Plan your Arctera EV.Cloud data export early
If you're leaving Arctera / EV.Cloud, exporting the existing archive deserves a place in the plan before you promise a completion date.
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The awkward bits are where archive migrations stall
Volume is rarely the whole story. Discovery, exceptions and a usable record decide whether an email archive move finishes cleanly.
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Five questions that make an email archive migration easier to scope
You need a migration plan you can make decisions with. These five questions help you arrive at that conversation with the right things on the table.
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Still paying for the old email archive? Give it an exit plan.
You've chosen where the email archive should live, and the previous platform is still in the budget. The migration needs a commercial conversation as well as a technical one.
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How will you know your email archive migration is finished?
When an email archive migration reaches handover, you need a clear account of the outcome. Those questions belong at the beginning of the project.
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Your engineers already have jobs. Email migration needn't become another one.
You need to move an email archive, and your technology team needs to keep the business running. Fully managed delivery changes the workload you ask them to take on.
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Buying a business? Give its email archive a place in the plan
An acquisition gives your technology team plenty to join up. The email archive deserves its own place on that plan.
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How Savage moved 176 million emails from Proofpoint to Mimecast
Savage Co moved 176 million emails and 40TB of uncompressed data from Proofpoint to Mimecast. eMXport ran the migration. Savage did not install anything.
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How De Beers moved 55.4 million emails into Mimecast
De Beers used eMXport to move 55.4 million emails, totalling 6TB, from Proofpoint to Mimecast. The migration was fully managed, with no customer-side infrastructure.
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