Posted by Chuck Coulson, Drive Technology Partnerships,
Google
Google Drive for
Work is a new premium offering for
businesses that includes unlimited storage, advanced audit reporting and new security controls
and features, such as encryption at rest.
If you're getting ready to move your company to Drive, one of the
first things on your mind is how to migrate all your existing files with as little hassle as
possible. It's easy to migrate your files by uploading them directly to Drive or using the
Drive Sync client. But, what if you have files stored elsewhere that you want to consolidate?
Or what if you want to migrate multiple users at once? Many independent software vendors
(ISVs) have built solutions to help organizations migrate their files from different File Sync
and Share (FSS) solutions, local hard drives and other data sources. Here are some of the
options available for you to use:
Cloud Migrator, by
Cloud Technology Solutions, migrates user accounts and files to Google Drive and other Google
Apps services. (website, blogpost)
Cloudsfer, by Tzunami,
transfers files from Box, Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive to Google Drive. (website)
Migrator for Google
Apps, by Backupify, migrates and consolidates personal Google Drive or other Google
Apps for Business accounts into a single domain. (website, blogpost)
Mover migrates
data from 23 cloud services providers, web services, and databases into Google Drive. (website, blogpost)
Nava Certus, by
LinkGard, provides a migration and synchronization solution for on-premise and cloud-based
storage platforms, including Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Amazon S3, as well as local file
systems. (website,blogpost)
SkySync, by
Portal Architects, integrates existing on-site storage systems as well as other cloud storage
providers to Google Drive. (website, blogpost)
These are just a few companies that offer migration solutions. Please
visit the Google Apps
Marketplace for a complete listing of
tools and offerings that add value to the Google Apps platform.