Mover

Mover is the Canadian company which develops the cloud service of the same name automating data transmission from different services. Mover can provide data migration between two tens different platforms, including Office 365 Google Drive, Dropbox and Box.

History

2019: Microsoft purchased Mover

On October 21, 2019 Microsoft announced Mover acquisition to simplify to the business clients product introduction of Office 365. The cost of the transaction of the company was decided to be left in a secret.

Microsoft intends to use technology of the absorbed startup to help the companies to transfer data from the competing services to OneDrive and SharePoint. It is supposed that developments of Mover will facilitate transfer of big files that will help Microsoft to attract more clients.

Microsoft announced Mover acquisition to simplify to the business clients product introduction of Office 365

Mover allows IT administrators to plan data migration when they are not used (for example, on the weekend) and also to transfer user rights together with files. It means that the staff of the company passing, say, with Google Drive to Office 365 saves access to all data which were provided to them in their old folders.

As customer needs in a cloud continue to grow in transfer of content, Mover will help to make migration of files in Microsoft 365 easy, more than ever earlier — the corporate vice president for Office, SharePoint and OneDrive in Microsoft company Jeff Teper says. — Our purpose, it to help clients to move to a cloud with confidence.

In addition to platforms of joint work, like Google Drive, Mover can import files from Amazon Web Services S3 storage, local databases, OpenStack and t. item. Microsoft can potentially use this technology that it was simpler to corporate users to transfer data to a cloud platform of Azure.^[1]

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