Gain Email Freedom with Low-Cost Email Migration Tools

In today's tough economy, many companies are investigating ways to reduce their email costs by switching their email system or changing to a far lower-cost email cloud service.  One challenge in moving from one email solution (such as Microsoft Exchange) to another (such as Google Apps or hosted Exchange) is what to do with the company's old email data and how to make a smooth transition without disrupting users or overburdening the IT staff.

Email migration enables companies to switch email solutions without fear of losing their historical email data.  Some email migration solutions also provide continuous, transparent email replication so that instead a single point-in-time migration rollover, users benefit from ongoing mailbox co-existence and seamless transition.  You can use two different mailboxes (for example, Microsoft Exchange and Google Apps/Gmail) not just to move over email, calendar, and contacts but can also keep both systems running until comfortable with making the final cut over to the new email service.  IT departments also appreciate this advanced feature because instead of the pain of weekend migrations, they can schedule migration during normal hours without disrupting the work of their user community.

Today vendors offer different email migration tools to provide email freedom and portability.  You can easily find the right email migration software online by doing an Internet search. Email service providers such as Google and Microsoft offer their own custom tools.  These tools may have Choose a reliable company with email expertise.  Vendors offer different migration capabilities, consider the following key criteria in your evaluation process:  Does the migration tool force a single, knife-edge rollover or enable mailbox co-existence?   Does the solution migrate email, contacts and calendars or just email? If you're migrating data from Microsoft Exchange/Outlook, check whether the migration tool works with your particular Exchange/Outlook version.  Can the software be deployed at the server level to enable easy installation and management of larger user groups?  Instead of buying and maintaining the software internally, you may also want to consider renting a migration service which does all the work for you without requiring internal infrastructure.