There is little doubt that the Cloud is one of the hot trends for the SharePoint community in 2012 and beyond. Cloud adoption for SharePoint was mentioned in several look-ahead articles in late 2011, including this piece from FierceContentManagement. While SharePoint Online and Office 365 have become important talking points for the SharePoint community and media, what does it mean for you?
Over the past couple of years, more and more organizations have started to take advantage of the cloud for their SharePoint deployments. However, organizations seeking cloud SharePoint environments have several decisions to make – whether they should pursue a dedicated cloud, a public cloud or a hybrid cloud scenario utilizing on-premises and cloud simultaneously. Organizations must deal with getting their SharePoint content, or legacy content data, into SharePoint Online or Office 365.
When it comes to cloud adoption and innovation for SharePoint, the key component is flexibility. For migrating SharePoint or legacy content into a cloud environment, you need to have choices and the ability to change your mind. With Migration Manager for SharePoint, Metalogix provides a solution for upgrade, management and migrations needs for organizations exploring the cloud.
For organizations moving and managing content in Office 365 Dedicated, Migration Manager for SharePoint is the only SharePoint migration product that has passed the Microsoft SharePoint Online Code Analysis Framework (MSOCAF) testing. Because of this, Metalogix is the only Microsoft approved ISV migration vendor for installation on Office 365 Dedicated servers.
Migration Manager for SharePoint supports scenarios where existing content is migrated to any hosted SharePoint environment. SharePoint hardware and support can be moved into the cloud quickly and easily, eliminating the need to support local SharePoint hardware and infrastructure. In addition, Migration Manager for SharePoint supports hybrid cloud migrations and cloud-to-cloud migrations, so organizations can move content from one hosted provider to another
Migration Manager for SharePoint has been recognized by European SharePoint Community as Metalogix has been named a finalist for the Most Innovative SharePoint Cloud Solution Award. Voting for the award continues until Tuesday, January 31.
