Patent ID: 9729488
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, with a migration system, configuration information about a source and a destination electronic messaging system, including identification of a plurality of mailboxes associated with the source electronic messaging system; migrating mailbox content associated with the plurality of mailboxes from the source to the destination electronic messaging system, wherein said migrating includes dynamically allocating computing resources including a plurality of instances to provide sufficient processing capacity for migration of the mailbox content associated with the plurality of mailboxes from the source electronic messaging system to the destination electronic messaging system, wherein the plurality of instances comprise one or more reserved instances or one or more on-demand instances, the on-demand instances obtained from one or more cloud service providers; determining a workload associated with each of the instances; assigning each task of a plurality of tasks involved in said migrating to an instance of the plurality of instances based on the determined workload associated with each of the plurality of instances; and providing status information regarding the migrating.