Case Study: Migration from Rackspace to Office 365

How Apps4Rent Migrated Mailboxes of a Texas-Based Equipment Supplier from Rackspace to Office 365 with Cutover Migration

Background:

An equipment supplier in Andrews, Texas was looking to migrate 131 mailboxes hosted from Rackspace’s servers to Office 365. Since Rackspace was proving to be too expensive, they were looking for options that could take care of their IT needs at a lower cost.

Apps4Rent’s Solution:

When they contacted Apps4Rent, we suggested them to migrate to Office 365. On Apps4Rent’s advice, they purchased 70 Business Essentials licenses, and 40 Business Premium licenses. Apart from that, they also had a few users on Exchange Online Plan 1 which needed to be migrated separately.

Apps4Rent presented a comprehensive migration strategy with a well-defined process, along with three types of migration options: cutover migration or PST import using migration. Also, provided alternative methods and possible outcomes for each case.

Results:

Using cutover migration, Apps4Rent migrated all the mailboxes from Rackspace’s servers to Office 365 tenant. The IT costs were reduced by almost half after migrating from Rackspace to Office 365.