In the past 12 months we have seen a further shift in migrations from one cloud platform to another.   

Since 2010, we have migrated email data from 21 different source archive platforms to a variety of destinations. A few years ago, there appeared to be a new push into Google rather than Microsoft Office 365 (O365) but in the past 12 months, only 7% of the migrations have been into Google compared to 36% into

Many organisations choose to delay their legacy archive migrations as they are a lot less straightforward compared to live email migrations.

The most widely cited reason is that it simply is not high enough priority or that the daunting and very costly first step of reviewing the archive, deduping etc, still must be undertaken. It can be a laborious process, particularly if you are working with older technologies and multiple formats and platforms, which in

This blog series explains some of the specific aspects that make migrations very complex. 

We start with chain of custody: what is it and why is it so important in data migrations? 

A chain of custody is the complete, documented, chronological history of the possession and handling of a record throughout its lifetime - from creation to destruction and it needs conscientious handling. Proper chain of custody registers through whose hands the information has passed