Depending on your chosen cloud vendors, options for extracting data out of an existing cloud service can often be limited, time-consuming and costly.
For example, if you wanted to extract a given mailbox or set of data from Mimecast, one option is to use Administrator rights to export the results of an eDiscovery search to PST or EML files. This, however, is a very lengthy and manually intensive approach that is not suitable for large volumes.
Another approach is to request a bulk-export of archived data from your cloud vendor. This data will typically be presented in a single-instanced stream of emails in PST or Zipped EML files.
The challenge with this is that your emails will not be exported according to individual user mailboxes and the original folder structure is lost.
Transvault is able to take this pool of emails and reconstruct it into separate user mailboxes. It can also create a new email folder structure based on meta data such as ‘Sender’ and ‘Date’ to give users the most meaningful way to navigate their migrated email records.
At the same time you can output data in the required format for ingestion into your new target cloud service.
Note that Microsoft Office 365 offers a great deal more flexibility and capability for moving your archives and for maintaining the folder structure of individual’s mailboxes.