Microsoft acquired cloud file migration provider Mover to help customers move files to its Microsoft 365 platform. The deal also further highlights the cloud giant’s voracious appetite in gobbling up cloud migration players.
Mover supports the migration of files from more than a dozen cloud providers, including Box, Dropbox, and Google Drive, into Microsoft’s OneDrive and SharePoint platforms. Those files can then be accessed from across Microsoft 365 applications and services.
“Our technology makes us one of the fastest OneDrive and SharePoint document migrators in the world,” wrote Eric Warnke, founder and CEO of Mover, in a blog post on the deal. “My team has proven this time and time again by setting migration speed records for the industry, always meeting customer needs. Security, file fidelity, and transfer accuracy are core tenets of our company and we take pride in our reputation.”
Financial terms of the deal were not released. Mover had raised around $1 million in funding since it was founded in 2011, according to Crunchbase. Those investors included Medra Capital and Double M Partners.
Jeff Teper, corporate VP for Microsoft Office 365, explained in a blog post that it would offer Mover’s platform as another option for customers migrating their applications. Those other options include its own FastTrack and SharePoint Migration tools and those from third-party providers.
“Mover will enhance these offerings with proven tools, plus more self-service options over time,” Teper wrote.
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Microsoft’s 365 platform has become a strong entry point for enterprises to take advantage of the company’s cloud offerings. The company reported that Office Commercial products and cloud service revenues increased 14% during its most recent quarterly earnings release, driven by a 31% surge in its Office 365 Commercial revenues.
AT&T recently signed a wide-ranging cloud deal with Microsoft that includes providing its workforce with Microsoft’s cloud-based 365 tools.
The Mover acquisition also comes a couple of months after Microsoft picked up Movere. That company’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) technology supports organizations as they migrate operations to the cloud. It includes a discovery component that asseses the use and location of an enterprise’s infrastructure and applications; plans out a migration strategy based on resource and consumption use; provides detailed resource consumption information; figures out what applications need to modernized, consolidated, or rationalized across all hardware and devices; and identifies security gaps.
Movere last year changed its name from Unified Logic to what had been its main product offering as part of a corporate overhaul. The firm, which is based near Microsoft in Bellevue, Washington, counts 21st Century Fox, AT&T, IBM, and McDonald’s as customers.