Box Migration Tool

Launched in 2005, Box Cloud has established itself as a popular cloud storage and collaboration platform. However, two major players in the realm of cloud-based solutions, Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) and Microsoft 365, have emerged as top contenders for businesses seeking to enhance their productivity, streamline workflows, and ensure secure data management.

Cloudiway Box Migration Tool will assist you in the process of migrating from or to Box.

Box Migration Tool

Migrate your Box Files and Folders with ease.
Seamlessly migrate from Box into Google Drive, OneDrive, SharePoint or Microsoft Teams.
Migrate hundreds of users simultaneously.

Move your Data From box with simplicity.

SAAS application

Nothing to install

No data loss

Maintain Sharing Permissions

Migrate Securely from the Cloudiway SAAS secured Platform.

Functionalities

Reorganize.
Split.
Selectively select your content.
Migrate you Box files to any supported target.
Migrate to SharePoint libraries, Teams, or OneDrives.
Migrate to Google Drives or Google Shared Drives.

Box Migration
simplified

What is migrated

Files
Folders
Permissions
Metadata

With Cloudiway' Box Migration Tool, you can:

Centrally migrate all the Box files and folders
Users not involved (Migration performed by your administrators)
Migrate everywhere you want:
- To OneDrive
- To SharePoint
- To Google Drive
- To google Shared Drive
- To Microsoft Teams
Reorganize , Split, Merge your content.
Automatically provision your destination
Run Delta passes and optimize migration passes

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Frequently
Asked Questions

What does migrating from Box involve?

This involves moving your files and folders stored on box to the new platform.

Why would a company want to migrate their data from Box?

Companies might want to migrate their data for a variety of reasons, such as cost savings, better integration with other tools they use, more suitable features in another service, or changes in company policy.

What are the challenges in migrating data from Box?

Challenges can include ensuring data integrity during transfer, maintaining the structure of files and folders, preserving sharing permissions, and minimizing downtime during the transfer. Another important challenge is the speed of migration, being able to migrate at high-speed without being throttled by the sources and the targets. Cloudiway’s migration platform enable high speed migration by allowing you to create multiple connectors in order to maximize migrations in parallal.

What are the steps to migrate data using Cloudiway's Box Migration Tool?

Steps usually involve discovery, audit, preprocessing and migration.

Discovery: this is is the first step of the migration process. It will connect to the source and automatically discover your list of users.
Audit: this second step connects to the sources and discovers the volumetry (number of files, size and number of folders).
Preprocessing: This tasks recreates the storage object at the target (user Drive, Library, Site, Team, etc…)
The last step is the migration itself.

How long does it typically take to migrate Box data?

The duration of the migration depends on the amount of data to be moved, the number of files and depth of folder structure. The more there are folders and permissions, the more there are calls to migrate accurately the content. Furthermore, it’s more expensive to migrate 1000 files of 1kb rather than 1 file of 1mb.

Will my data be secure using the Box Migration Tool?

Yes, Cloudiway platform is secure and meets security best practices. No data is stored in Cloudiway platform. Data transits through the platform through TLS 1.2 secured connexions.For more information on how Cloudiway handles security, you can refer to this article.

Box Migration Tool