Quest Software is simplifying how customers of all sizes move their email to the cloud with its email migration solution, Quest
OnDemand Migration for Email. The solution is based on Windows
Azure and helps customers migrate to Microsoft Office 365. By running
the solution on Windows Azure, Quest was able to give companies large
and small a fast, low-cost, low-risk way to migrate
email to cloud environments.
Quest
recognized that many customers wanted to migrate their email messaging
from both on-premises infrastructures and other cloud solutions to
Office 365 but had questions about the migration, noting
that several email migration tools in the market were difficult to set
up and required the deployment of on-site servers for large mailbox
migrations. As a result, Quest created an email migration solution that
could be delivered using a software-as-a-service
(SaaS) deployment model with Windows Azure in which customers do not
need to install or maintain any software for the move, helping save time
and money.
"We wanted
customers to gain instantaneous access to our migration product via any
Web browser and start migrating users within minutes, not weeks," said
Ron Robbins, product manager, Migration Solutions
at Quest Software.
By hosting its
solution on Windows Azure, Quest can scale to meet its customers' needs -
from small businesses with hundreds of mailboxes to large enterprises
with tens of thousands of mailboxes - all
while keeping its migration service affordable. Quest's pay-as-you-go
pricing model, which is enabled by Windows Azure's pricing model, also
gives customers the flexibility to migrate all their users at once or
spread the investment over time.
To date, Quest
has migrated tens of thousands of email seats to Office 365 using
OnDemand Migration for Email, and does so with exceptional levels of
performance and availability from Windows Azure. Microsoft's
cloud platform also gives Quest the ability to expand its global reach.
"We can expand
our markets because Windows Azure has datacenters worldwide," Robbins
said. "Deploying our own SaaS infrastructure worldwide would be
cost-prohibitive, but with Windows Azure we can reach
new markets without infrastructure concerns."
Read more about Quest Software's development of Quest OnDemand Migration for Email on Windows Azure in the
case
study.