Why UK public sector organisations can’t ignore legacy email archive migrations
Legacy email archives are now one of the biggest blockers to digital transformation in the UK public sector.
Most councils, NHS bodies and arm’s-length organisations have already moved to Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, but their historical email data is still locked inside ageing systems like Mimecast, Enterprise Vault or SourceOne. These platforms are costly to maintain, difficult to secure and slow down compliance work such as FOI, SAR and eDiscovery.
Migrating archives into O365 or Google is the final step in completing a modern cloud-first strategy—improving governance, reducing technical debt and eliminating unnecessary risk. And with Ultimate Migrator available through G-Cloud 14, public sector organisations can procure this work quickly and compliantly, without launching a full tender.
The EU Data Act just changed the conversation about archive migration
PDF BLOG_ The EU Data Act just changed the conversation about archive migration New regulation strengthens your clients’ right to migrate. And your ability to help them do it. The EU Data Act (Regulation 2023/2854) came into force on 12 September 2025, and it has...
How much is your legacy archive really costing you?
PDF BLOG_ The hidden cost of doing nothing with legacy email archives Legacy email archives don’t usually cause day-to-day problems - which is why so many organisations continue paying for them long after they’ve moved to Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace. But just...
Free your clients from email archive prison: fast, compliant archive migration into Microsoft 365 or your chosen new provider
PDF BLOG_ Free your clients from Mimecast_ fast, compliant archive migration into Microsoft 365 Mimecast, Barracuda, EV.Cloud to name just a few have long positioned themselves as a secure, cloud-based archive solution, especially attractive to organisations running...
GDPR and Email Archives: Why Old Data Could Be Your Next Big Risk
GDPR doesn’t stop at your live email. Find out why your legacy email archives may be the hidden weak spot in your compliance strategy.
Beyond the Inbox: Why Email Archive Migration Is More Than Just a Technical Task
Email archive migration isn’t just an IT upgrade. Learn why it’s a strategic move that affects compliance, productivity, and cloud ROI.
Have you ever been throttled by Microsoft?
One of the issues when migrating your on-premise email into O365 has been the speed at which the O365 platform can accept the data. Microsoft has always had a data ingress throttling policy but that could always be switched off on a per tenant basis for a period of time during the on-boarding process. Thus temporarily by-passing the throttling restrictions enabled the migration into the O365 platform to proceed at an acceptable rate. Until…..
.pst Files – Friend or Foe?
The answer to that question is pretty clear – once a friend, but now very much a foe.
In times gone by, and we are talking over twenty years ago now, .pst files were a useful solution to the problem of limited server mailbox capacity. In those days, storing a .pst file on a local pc and including it in a back-up regime was the way forward. In those days, .pst files were a friend indeed….
The Business Case for Ultimate Migrator software
Rather than setting up a direct slugging match with any of our competitors we believe the professional way forward is to highlight what we understand to be the reasons our clients prefer to use Ultimate Migrator (UM) software. So, to argue the business case for UM,...
Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining
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