As a business we aim to make companies move to the cloud turbulence free and help you to adapt once you’re there. As well as dramatically saving costs our tool is guaranteed to safely move your legacy mail to the cloud without losing any of your data.

The Cloud Migrator will move all of your emails, calendars, contacts and appointments over from your original mail server to your new cloud based offering. The Cloud Migrator Tool is constantly being developed to cater to our customers needs the latest version of our tool enables users to migrate from messaging systems such as Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003, Novell/Groupwise 6.5.6, Scalix 11.0 or higher and Microsoft Exchange BPOS/2007/2010. We take companies to many cloud offerings including, Google Apps for Business, Google Postini Services and Microsoft Office 365, Exchange 2007/2010.

Everyone here at Cloud Technology Solutions is very excited to have broken our record and 2012 looks to be the year people are going to make the move. This is the year companies should be making steps towards the cloud and we can make it it much easier for you. Read 10 reasons you should choose Cloud Technology Solutions to move to the cloud.

Macquarie University, is home to approximately 35,000 students and 5,500 members of staff. The beautiful 126 hectare of park-like campus is an ideal setting for discovery and learning. Located within the high-technology corridor of Sydney’s north-west, Macquarie University graduates are highly sought-after. Macquarie University is one of Australia’s leading research universities, it is a dynamic, flexible and engaged university committed to excellence in research, teaching and global citizenship. Formed in 1964, the University prides itself on being enquiring, open to new ideas, new ways of thinking and new ways of ensuring a sustainable institution.

Business Need

Macquarie University have been providing a number of email systems for staff with the main system being a Novell GroupWise system. The GroupWise setup catered for approximately 80% of staff with the remaining 20% on a variety of other systems and provided email service to staff since 2005. With approximately 5,500 users, the Novell GroupWise system spanned over 29 GroupWise Post Offices. Beneath this impressive email infrastructure ran a well managed 8 Node Novell NetWare cluster.

In 2007 Macquarie University migrated the entire student body over to Google Apps for Education. With staff and lectures on GroupWise and students using Google Apps, managing multiple systems became a very costly undertaking.

“The main issue for Macquarie University was to remove the costs and complexity of managing multiple email systems and to consolidate on one system” – Norbert Attard, Technology Project Leader at Macquarie University

Solution

With a large student user base already happy on Google Apps, the choice was obvious. Macquarie University decided to migrate away from Novell GroupWise to Google Apps for it’s staff users.

Marc Bailey CIO at Macquarie University says:

“Success at cloud-sourcing email depends entirely on two factors beyond feature/benefits, namely out-of-box experience and consumer confidence. Cloud Technology Solutions delivered Macquarie University the best possible impression of our new system from the very first customer click. Combined with a great project team, some intense planning, training and communication, we were able to engender the confidence needed to rapidly reach an adoption tipping point, then smoothly proceed to completion”

Migrating staff would have been an extremely complex process as the users all took advantage of calendars and scheduling, along with maintaining contact information within the GroupWise address book. The University did not have the option to simply move to a different email system, as it did with students, it needed to migrate everything, email, calendar, chat and contacts.

Cloud Technology Solutions

Cloud Technology Solutions were the migration partner of choice to provide assistance and support with the Cloud Google Migrator, the market-leading migration tool widely used to migrate organisations to Google Apps from Novell GroupWise. The tool allows entire organisations of any size to migrate to Google Apps efficiently and with no downtime. As the Cloud Google Migrator had proven ability to migrate to Google Apps and supported email, calendar and contacts, it was a perfect match for the Universities requirements.

The migration was smooth and efficient. Simultaneously running the migration tool on 8 Dual Core 4GB workstations, Macquarie University seamlessly migrated all 5,500 users from Novell GroupWise to Google Apps for Education over the course of a few weeks and with no data loss.

“Cloud Technology Solutions were invaluable in helping us migrate our staff to Google Apps. The migration tool itself was excellent and meant we reduced our migration time by about 30%. Where any problems did arise the support response was first class”

Benefits

Currently 8 million students, faculty and staff at educational institutions around the world are using Google Apps, so Macquarie University are not alone.

Google Apps for Education now provides the entire campus community, including students, faculty, staff and alumni all the tools they need to communicate and collaborate more effectively. Providing over 7GB of email storage per student, Google Apps for Education delivers all the email and collaboration needs of Macquarie University.

“Cloud Technology Solutions Google Migrator allows organisations to seamlessly and easily migrate legacy email platforms to Google Apps significantly reducing the cost of running an IT department” – Steve Kaye, CEO, Cloud Technology Solutions

To learn more about how we can help your organisation Go Google, please contact us now.

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Update: 22:40GMT Google App Engine is down again – further updates will be provided as and when the situation changes.

Update: 22:55GMT Back up, hopefully for good!

New Features

• Display number of used and allocated licenses on the ‘License Key’ dialog
• Use Unicode more effectively to deal with non-western character sets
• Added a ‘Modify Request’ option to the Google settings to help deal with a proxy issue
• Added special handling for Turkish characters
• Added an option to migrate only the plain text body for internal GroupWise emails

Fixes

• Ensure that ‘Application Identifier’ is persisted. This is important so that, if using multiple tool instances with one database server, the correct database is used for each tool instance
• Documentation updated with new advice regarding using a shared database setup with multiple tool instances

For migrations using multiple tool instances with a shared database, this upgrade is highly recommended. Also please ensure that each instance of the tool has a different ‘Application Identifier’ if using with a shared database setup.

Download a trial of the tool now from our download area.

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The full list of changes since 1.5.5.0 includes:

New Features

• Enhanced connection tester/diagnostic dialog (see here for more info)
• Added current configuration file and current user file information to ‘Users’ tab
• Preserve ‘private’ status of appointments for GroupWise and Exchange
• Optionally flash Windows taskbar on migration completion
• Optionally play sound on migration completion
• Changed default export method for GroupWise to ‘Alternative’
• Added ability to explicitly export all GroupWise group members, overriding exported address book
  settings (turn on ‘Migrate All Group Members’)
• GroupWise distribution list/group members without email addresses are still added to groups
• Minor UI tweaks

Fixes

• Ensure migration statistics always display, even when ‘Record Successes’ is turned off
• Ensure ‘date’ header is present in all Exchange messages
• Use an alternate method of examining Exchange folders to workaround incorrect folder attributes that
  could prevent some folders being migrated in some circumstances

If you have an existing installation of the tool, then you will be required to recreate the database that the tool uses to perform migrations. The tool will inform you of the steps needed to perform this if it detects the schema in use by the database is not up to date.

Download a trial of the tool now from our download area.

For more information about the migration tool or if you have an support queries, please contact us.

More information is also available to download in our datasheet.

The full list of changes includes:

New Features

• Added statistical information on the ‘Progress’ tab
• Added icons to represent migration progress
• Improved GroupWise diagnostics in the connection tester
• Added menu item to re-register GroupWise DLLs
• Renamed ‘Alternate Message Export’ to ‘Message Export Method’
• Ability to choose from one of three alternate ‘Message Export Method’ options for GroupWise (default is ‘Enhanced’ which is the most robust in most situations)
• Added a new message export method ‘Fallback’, to be used if all others fail for GroupWise
• Changed user import/export statistics to links to make the ability to click more obvious. Click the numbers next to the user status on the ‘Progress’ tab for information about individual messages
• Users are now added manually via an ‘Add User’ context menu item. Right click in the grid on the ‘Users’ tab.
• List of recent configuration files can be accessed in the file menu
• GroupWise is now the default migration platform
• Renamed ‘Use Sync Event’ to ‘Prevent Appointment Fanout’ in migration options
• Other minor UI tweaks

Fixes

• Fixed a selection bug in the user configuration list
• Included an updated build of the Google client libraries to enable migrations on non-English number format systems again

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For more information about the migration tool or if you have an support queries, please contact us.

More information is also available to download in our datasheet.

• Support for Microsoft Exchange 2000 migrations
• More flexible licensing scheme

BETA support for Microsoft Exchange 2000 has now just been added to the tool. The same technologies used for Exchange 2003 and 2007 are used with Microsoft Exchange, but if you do run into any problems with Exchange 2000, please let us know.

For more information about the migration tool or if you have an support queries, please contact us.

This release also brings stablity enhancements for both Microsoft Exchange and Novell GroupWise migrations.

The Cloud Google Migrator remains the only commercial product that can move your organisations Novell GroupWise infrastructure to Google Apps. For more information about the migration tool, please contact us.