Doing it SMARTly – making sense of your messaging platform migration life cycle
[Johannesburg, 21 May 2013] -
The mere thought of a messaging platform migration has sent many operational managers and IT administrators running for the hills. Messaging is the lifeblood of the organisation, and in the past, it impacted every corner of the business and was a highly risky and challenging initiative to ensure everyday business operations were unaffected. However, this notion has changed somewhat. With the advent of cloud computing and the regular version refresh cycles for vendors like Microsoft that embrace new collaboration methods and cloud-based options, it is gathering a new momentum due to a unique combination of business and technology drivers.In fact, organisations that run leading platforms like Microsoft's Flagship Exchange solution, should no longer see migrations as a once-off event, but rather as a continuous process that is aligned with commercial, organisational and technology business needs, says Chris Hathaway, Director at Soarsoft Africa.Cloud and hybrid deployments are also driving the need for a shift in how migrations are performed, perceived and managed by organisations that are rethinking how e-mail should be actualised in a public or private cloud. However, it is often only when the process is in motion that they realise that the most efficient or cost-effective deployment model could be a "hybrid" cloud deployment.
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