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Email Platform Migration

Determining if your current network design, topology, and bandwidth are adequate for a new messaging environment can be a difficult task. One must consider where to place the new servers, which new and old servers will be connected for synchronization, and how email routing will be configured during a coexistence period. Migration tools from the new email server manufacturers typically are not sufficient to do a complete migration and investigation of third party tools is often required.

Mail Platform Migration Challenges

• Concern of end-users being able to retrieve email during the platform migration process.
  The Jatheon appliance captures email in real time and provides a centralized location for email that is always current, regardless of the current inbound email routing. During the migration phase all user accounts and email must be replicated to the new platform. Jatheon can aid in simplifying this process greatly by providing full access to all email in a platform agnostic solution that increases data availability and minimizes Helpdesk calls during the migration process.
  
  
• Concern with moving from one email platform to another? (i.e. Novell GroupWise to Exchange 2007)
  Usually the hardest task in a email platform migration is the conversion of email. Typically the migration of end-users email is processed in batches. This can cause logistics issues with the email routing path because you have users emails on multiple platforms. Deploying a Jatheon appliance prior to an email platform migration provides redundancy and additional tools to make this a painless task. End-users will always be able to search and retrieve their email from one single source while the migration process is occurring.
  
  
• Concern of user acceptance of the new mail platform.
  By providing end-users access to their archive via the Jatheon solution, users always have a consistent way to find their email in the archive regardless of the current email platform. This consistency can aid in the user acceptance of a platform change. The Jatheon Client Plug-in (an appliance based plug-in that displays in any email client as a URL) also reduces the frustration of users unable to find legacy email in a new environment and increases overall user acceptance of the email migration process

Mail Platform Migration – How It Works

Organizations from time to time change the mail platform that they are using, sometimes from one vendor to another. The Jatheon Plug n Comply appliances offer a simple way to manage the legacy mail issues that will arise in these situations.

By implementing the Jatheon appliance BEFORE the mail system migration takes place; the burden of migration the user’s mail files can be eliminated. The legacy mail is placed into the archive and can be reviewed or forwarded by the users back to their mail client after the new mail system is operational.