Migrating content between systems takes a lot of time, and without methods to bulk load or schedule the process may proceed incrementally as users facilitate the process whenever they have time. But what if they don’t have time? What if they had been using an unauthorized cloud storage system, or the system they were using is being decommissioned by the company. How can they quickly move high value content to another system?

For example, let’s say a business division within a company is using Microsoft OneDrive as a collaboration and document sharing system. Then, that company decides that OneDrive is no longer an accepted or company preferred file sync and share system, and employees should use Oracle Documents Cloud Service. For the division using OneDrive, such a declaration could cause some delays in any of their processes that rely on that content. An example of this could be the inability to collaborate with 3rd-parties – such as a law firm – on documents being reviewed by both parties. The process of downloading copies of the content and uploading them to another system could take a significant amount of time, but until that content gets moved over to, in this case Oracle Documents Cloud Service, critical processes could be severely delayed.

The hackathon event team for this solution set out to provide a web-based interface to enable single item and batch migrations between systems to be migrated and removed from one system or the other or just copied. As more and more of these easy-to-use document sharing solutions enter an organization, such a tool could be quite beneficial to ensure content can be easily accessed and shared across systems.

One important point to note about such a solution, and the use of cloud storage systems across an organization, is that governance and acceptable use policies for cloud storage/enterprise file sync and share systems need to be clearly defined. Although the solution developed by Fishbowl could help an organization migrate content to the standardized cloud storage solution, companies need to be proactive with monitoring employee use as they may try and utilize other systems. This can pose security risks – both from a sharing of confidential information perspective and opening up new avenues for cyber attacks. To combat this, solutions like Oracle’s Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) could be leveraged to provide visibility into the cloud systems being used, and provide security monitoring and threat detection across your entire cloud technology stack.

The screenshot below shows the simple user interface to select available systems and begin migrating content. Fishbowl has customers using this cloud migration tool today, so if you are interested in learning how it could help you expedite your cloud to cloud content migrations, contact us now – info@fishbowlsolutions.com or 952-465-3400.

Here are the technologies the team used to develop Cloud 2 Cloud. If you would like more information on the technical specifics of the solutions, please leave a comment and we will get back to you ASAP.

• REST API
• Mustache – web template system for mobile and web applications
• Debugging tools Fiddler and Postman

Cloud 2 Cloud Migration.