Some of the team from TransVault are attending the Symantec Vision 2012 event in Las Vegas this week and coinciding with our announcement of our new TransVault Sprint product aimed at the SMB (small and mid-sized business market) space. The press release can only explain so much, and there have been several partners here at Vision on Day 2 asking for some specifics to help them plan their own strategies for moving into the SMB space where migrations will be for lower quantities of data, there is likely to be a lot less emphasis on compliance issues, and customers are much more likely to want to undertake more of the projects themselves and have projects at a lower price point.
These customers do not want to have to use an untested technology or a tool that can't achieve the best migration speeds and often since they are not approaching the project with the 'risk' mindset of a regulated firm, they don’t place the same value on the Adaptive Development service which would be automatically extended to them if they were to work with one of our partners using our TransVault Migrator product. Previously then this has been a portion of the market that has been relatively poorly serviced, particularly in EMEA & APAC where average company sizes are smaller, regulations less developed, and litigation less prevalent.
So TransVault Sprint is designed to offer less complexity for what we would think of as the set of mainstream migration paths where the software components we use will already have been proved in maybe 50-350 customer migration projects. The tool won't include Notes->Exchange or Exchange->Notes conversion options for example, nor multi-server migrations, nor virtualised segments for Journal archives, nor address translation, nor... well you get the picture.
Features will be finalised in the coming weeks as we aim the development to dovetail into our Migrator 6.2 release due in mid-summer. Partners will likely adapt our current migration methodologies with a greater bias towards remote service to provide what we'll refer to as Sprint Assist Migrations.
The goal is to make it easier for customers to take greater responsibility for their own migrations whilst maintaining the safety net of an experienced partner just an email or phone call away. If the migration should run into difficulties caused by corrupted or lost archive data, for example, then an in-box licence and service upgrade will get them the more sophisticated capabilities of our Migrator product and fault finding and correction skills that any of our technically-certified partners can offer.
The migrations market is becoming more mainstream and the profile pushing down from the mid-market. What customers need is choice and proven capabilities. TransVault and all our partners want and aim to support that.
