Sep, 2001 : Interliant Launches Email Migration Service

📅 September 27, 2001 - Interliant, Inc. (interliant.com), a global application service provider, announced yesterday it has launched a new service designed to provide customers with a seamless transition from their current e-mail platforms to a customer-managed or hosted infrastructure of Lotus Notes R5 and Microsoft Exchange 2000. The INIT Mail Migration service, developed by Interliant's INIT Managed Messaging group, is a structured methodology that helps customers migrate from their legacy messaging platforms to new messaging solutions, which can be managed and monitored in-house or outsourced.

The cornerstone of the INIT Mail Migration service is theInterliant-developed ASPect Consulting Methodology, derived fromInterliant's years of mail migration consulting experience, which detailsthe transition steps that Interliant's consultants use to take a customerthrough a mail migration effort. These steps include a requirementsassessment and analysis plus a survey of the existing environment, followedby the development of a complete migration plan. Once the plan is executed,Interliant will certify the results and transition the customer for ongoingsupport. The customer's newly migrated mail platform also may be hosted atone of Interliant's secure data centers for ongoing monitoring andmanagement.
Through its alliances with two of the industry's leading vendors of mailmigration tools, Interliant's INIT Mail Migration service uses MicrosoftExchange migration tools developed by Madison, Wisconsin-based WingraTechnologies (wingra.com), a provider of enterprise messaging integration and migration solutions. In addition, Interliant employs Automated Deployment Toolkit, a Lotus Notes deployment and migration management tool, from Fairlawn, Ohio-based Wolcott Systems Group (wolcottgroup.com).
"Successfully migrating an organization's e-mail platform comes down tothree things: people, tools and methodology," said Rudy Ventresca,Interliant senior vice president of professional services. "Interliant'speople are skilled in designing and implementing complex e-mail platforsfor corporations of all sizes and have been hosting servers since 1994.Arguably the most important part of a successful e-mail migration project isthe methodology used. Interliant's ASPect methodology didn't happen bychance, but was developed by Interliant professionals through years ofworking with various mail platforms and vendors to help organizations designand implement their e-mail infrastructures."
The INIT Mail Migration service is available now for organizations planninga migration to Lotus Notes 5.0 and Microsoft Exchange 2000. Pricing varies,depending on the complexity of the migration, but ranges from $10,000 on thelow end to $100,000 and up for large enterprise migrations.

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