Rackspace to Google Workspace Migration Process
Are you concerned about your migration? Let us give you a tour of our proven end to end migration process.
RACKSPACE TO GOOGLE WORKSPACE MIGRATION PROCESS
Migration Inputs
It all starts with understanding about your current email system, where we ask a few questions like which Rackspace plan you use, where is your DNS hosted etc. You can learn more our migration requirements here.
Advance Payment
We ask 50% advance to assign our expert migration resources and premium tools to your project.We use Paypal so you can pay by using any of your major credit card.
Project Organization
Once we have all required information, we enter it in our Google Sheet based project management tool to share with you (we bet, you can easily manage projects in Google Sheets).
You can easily track progress of your migration on this Google Sheet. Our team keeps it updated every couple of hours.
Google Workspace Setup
We start setting up Google Workspace for you following Google’s best recommended practices including domain verification, SPF record creation, DKIM setup, creating users, aliases, groups and resource calendar.
Our setup also includes configuring all Google recommended security settings.
Migration Setup
We start the magic of making connections between Rackspace and Google Workspace email servers, fix issues (if any).
At this time, we are ready to programmatically fetch data from Rackspace email servers and ingest that into your Google Workspace users mailbox.
Base Migration
We do migration in two phases (1) Base Migration and (2) Delta Migration, and let us tell you why.
If you take any action on the email in Rackspace mailbox (e.g moving it to a folder) after we migrated it, migration utilities would not catch it.
To avoid this, we migrate emails starting From 01-01-1990 TO 30 days older than today in the first (Base) migration, last 30 days email in second (Delta) migration which we perform on weekend after changing your email routing.
Final Payment
At this time we complete around 75% of the your Rackspace to Google Workspace Migration project and ask for final 50% payment.
Email Routing
Now as your base migration has been completed, we make the changes in your DNS to switch your domain’s email routing to Google Workspace and within a short period of time all new emails will start coming to your Google Workspace mailboxes.
If you are a geek, this is called Mail Exchanger Routing or MX Routing.
Delta Migration
Its weekend and now is the time to migrate last 30 days of emails, also your contacts and calendar events.
It doesn’t take us more than couple of hours to migrate last 30 days of emails, and all contacts and calendar.
Your Review
You get an email “Your data migration is completed”, please login in to your mailbox and confirm if things look perfect.
Mostly, there would not be any issues as we do this everyday, but worst case if there are any, don’t worry we know stuff well (very well) and can fix it in no time.
ENJOY GOOGLE WORKSPACE
Googally provides two weeks post migration support and you live happily forever with Google Workspace.
Offering Overview
Learn about what is migrated, how much time does it, how would will it cost you etc on our offering page
SEE MOREMigration Requirements
Learn about the checklist of information we will need to migrate you from Rackspace to Google Workspace
SEE MORERead Success Stories
Learn about experience of other customers like you who migrated to Google Workspace with us
SEE MOREFrequently Asked Questions
Most Frequently asked questions about Rackspace to Google Workspace Migration
What do you mean by piece of mind migration?
That’s a great question.
We don’t want you to juggling around systems, or answering 100 odd questions to migrate from Rackspace to Google Workspace.
All we ask for is to provide some information (mentioned here) and that's it.
Seriously, that's it.
We do every damn required thing to migrate you from Rackspace to Google Workspace without a glitch.
Though we can’t pay for your trip, but feel free to make a trip to Hawaii after providing us required information.
You don’t need to worry about what's happening with your migration, it is all taken care by Google Workspace experts.
How do you migrate in just a weekend?
We use premium migration utilities to migrate your data which means migrating at blazing fast speed.
For users with mailbox size of less than 5 GB, we usually migrate them fully within a weekend, so they see all data in their Google Workspace mailbox when they login on Monday morning.
For your email superman users with mailbox size of more than 5 GB, our smart migration utility migrates data from latest to oldest. So when they login to their Google Workspace mailbox on Monday morning, they will have at least last couple of years of email.
Rest of their emails will keep on migrating behind the scenes, so you are kinda all set (unless you are really lagging behind and want to reply to that 6 year old email:).
Can't we do this by our own?
Nothing is impossible.
If you are determined you can even go to the moon, so instead of asking “Can’t we do it by ourselves?” you should rather be asking “Should we do it ourselves”?
If you want to do it yourself, you can but you will need to put in a few days (or weeks) to learn the in and outs of Google Workspace migration, and have some patience to hit and try things.
So unless you are a student and want to learn things by investing a few days or weeks, it will make better business sense to hire us.
We do Google Workspace migrations every day as we make our living with it. Our years of learning and experience can help you migrate smoothly to Google Workspace within a weekend. This will definitely save you substantial time, energy, money, and of course remove risk of losing your valuable data.
How are you different than your competitors?
Thats a great question.
We are different than other Google Cloud partners in two things.
Pricing and Process
Pricing – Most of our customers who come to us after getting Google Workspace migration quotes from our competitors say that our pricing is very reasonable. You will find our pricing almost 50% cheaper than of our competitors in most of the cases.
Process – Now you might be asking how is their our pricing so reasonable, how can they do it in almost 1/2 of their competitors pricing.
The answer is “Our Proven, Established, and Automated” migration process which makes it a win win. You can learn more about our migration process here.
How will I track migration process?
We use Clickup (a cloud based project management tool) for managing our business, once we start the project, you will get a project tracker link where you can see all the project tasks along with their progress.
You would also have the flexibility to ask us questions (if any) right in the project management tool.
How do I get started?
Hmm, now we are talking!
Lets do it apple style.
This is the most easiest thing we ever created where we redefined the definition of simplicity.If you want to migrate to Google Workspace without a glitch, contact us above (or simply click here) and we will provide you all information.
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Customer Success Story
"Thousands of our emails were migrated without a glitch from Rackspace to Google Workspace, It was a peace of mind to work with Googally".
Terry Prince
Bianca e Nero, A Creative Agency
Denver, CO