New Features

• Support for Postgres 9
• Ability to specify folders to exclude from migrations (all platforms)
• Re-architected Email message saving and retrieval
• Added OK button to configuration dialog

Fixes

• Apply incoming shared folder settings to GroupWise calendar migrations (fixes duplicate appointments with shared calendars)
• Better reporting if a process fails

Notes

As usual, if you have any queries about the tool, usage, pricing or anything else contact us.

The latest version of the tool can always be downloaded from our migration tool download page.

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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The Cloud Google Migrator can migrate your organisations Novell GroupWise or Microsoft Exchange system to Google Apps.

This latest release of the Cloud Google Migrator is a bug fix release and fixes the following issues.

• Fixed an issue with configuration saving, importing and exporting users
• Fixed a rare issue with skipping migration of some system address book contacts
• Fixed an issue where a malformed message would result in a spurious warning

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.

The Cloud Google Migrator can migrate your organisations Novell GroupWise or Microsoft Exchange system to Google Apps.

This latest release of the Cloud Google Migrator brings the following new features and fixes:

• Full support for Exchange 2000
• Made GroupWise Archive label name configurable
• Fixed an issue with resolving Exchange 2000 user URLs

Exchange 2000 is now also fully supported by the migration tool. That brings the list of supported systems to:

• Novell GroupWise 6.5 to 8
• Microsoft Exchange 2000, 2003 and 2007

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.

• Check installation integrity on application startup
• Fallback on alternate message export if normal GroupWise message export fails
• Fixed an issue with removal of attachments on oversized messages
• Made maximum permitted message size configurable
• Fixed a problem with some Exchange 2000 installations with invalid XML characters

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.

The Role

As part of a young fast growing leading technology supplier, based in the UK and Germany, your role will be crucial to the success of the company. Cloud Technology Solutions was formed in 2009 to take advantage of the evolutionary revolution known as cloud computing. We are looking for exceedingly talented customer facing professionals who have a strategic understanding of the IT marketplace and in particular, the premise of cloud computing and Google’s position and technology around their Google Apps platform. These roles will report directly in to the CEO, such is the importance of their standing. A very competitive package is being offered to attract the best.

From a technology perspective you will have a deep understanding of one or more legacy email systems such as Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus or Novell Groupwise. You will be trained in all things Google to equip you for your role and will work along side our VP’s of technology and development initially, however any knowledge that you currently have around Google Apps will be to your advantage.

We are looking for personalities whose values are as sincere as ours around value for money, customer care, green computing and a desire to change the IT paradigm of today. Your customer facing skills need to be exceptional and you will be operating around architectural design, implementation, pre and post sales support.

You will be based from home and equipped with everything you need to be successful in your role. A significant amount of travel will be involved both within the UK, Europe, USA and AsiaPAC.

The Detail

After undergoing training around Google Apps you will be expected to assist Sales on a daily basis. We have a methodology around the adoption process which involves proposal preparations, piloting systems, design and implementation of roll out and advice regarding ongoing support plus the use of any 3rd party tools that we resell around security and integration (which training is available for). You will often work alongside Google sales and technical so excellent teamwork skills are a must. You will also undergo training around our own Cloud Migrator Tool as we almost always use this during the pilot and implementation phases.

A knowledge of Help Desk tools would be advantageous as we also offer direct support to our customers and you would be expected to be involved especially during the next 12 months.

So what would a typical day look like?

After a period of induction and training, a typical day may consist of any (or all!) of the following tasks

• Visiting potential clients to present Google technology and our methodology regarding migration.
• Working from home preparing a proposal
• Meeting with colleagues from Google to plan a customer event or visit
• Planning a seminar or workshop and presenting to potential clients off site.
• Taking the odd support call from existing clients
• Helping to test functionality improvements in our tools and 3rd party tools we support
• Attending Google events
• Updating our marketing tools around presentations, webinars etc
  Organising and presenting webinars
• Meetings and conversations with other CTS employees

So what do we think a good candidate would look like?

You will have strong interpersonal skills with a balance between friendliness and firmness. You will possess much confidence in your own abilities and be open to being taught new things. You may have existing pre-sales experience although your personality is more important to us. Typical environments where we would expect to find good candidates might be members of special interest groups on social networks around messaging and collaboration. You may have an academic background involved day to day in running an academic IT network from a messaging and collaboration, user security point of view. A deep understanding of one or more legacy offerings will be very important. Our targets for migration include users of Microsoft, Novell and IBM. You will be measured and awarded based on customer satisfaction, your teamwork and of course your influence in helping us to migrate as many folks as possible to a cloud based solution including Google Apps.

The Company

Cloud Technology Solutions is a preferred (managed) partner of Google. It has deep expertise around migrating legacy messaging and collaboration users to Google Apps. It also offers complementary solutions around integration, security, archiving and storage. Our growth plans are aggressive to match the industries anticipated adoption of cloud computing (20% of the worlds commercial email to be in the cloud by 2012 according to Gartner). We have our own development capability and our Cloud Migrator Tool is proving to be one of the most successful approaches to migration out there. We currently have projects that span the globe so overseas travel will be required.

Google Apps

Make no mistake this is a very compelling solution to the problems of messaging and collaboration using existing legacy solutions. You will hear arguments around data security and other technology spokes in the wheel but they are fictitious. Nevertheless there is a challenge because this may mean significant change to organisations and you will always meet resistance to change! You will help us drive that change ( akin to stop asking people to build power generators and just use the socket in the wall!) and you must be skillful and able in that capacity.

Reward

These positions will go a long way towards our continuing growth and success. To that end we want to make that you enjoy that success with us, (and share some of the risk!).

A competitive base salary based on your experience, qualifications and general standing in the IT market place plus an attractive bonus package which could include stock options is on offer. This will be augmented by a company family medical plan, car allowances and pension contributions.

The Process

Suitable candidates will be initially tested on their technical prowess and that will be followed up by interviews with the sales staff and CEO and brought to a successful conclusion. All communication must be carried out through our recruitment consultants, GK recruitment.

Please quote CTS-TAM-WEB in all your communication. Good Luck!

GK Recruitment can be contacted on 0845 1239454 or email info@gkrecruitment.com.

• 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.

• Enabled better select/deselect functionality on user list tab
• Improved trace logging to allow for better sorting
• Skip GroupWise folders when GroupWise API fails on corrupted accounts
• Skip attached GroupWise messages when attached message is corrupt and cannot be accessed via the API
• Enabled use on systems with non-English number formats

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

• Updated to latest release of Google libraries
• Force users to change password on next login
• Changed file extension of exported user information to .csv

The new option to force users to change password on login is a useful addition for any migration, bringing yet more flexibility and options to how you can migrate an organisation to Google Apps.

The Cloud Google Migrator remains the only commercial product that can move your organisations Novell GroupWise infrastructure to Google Apps (we also migrate Microsoft Exchange, all in the same tool).

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

To download a trial of the tool see here.

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.

To download a trial of the tool see here.