Reasons To Copy Google Drive To Office 365
If you're considering an Office 365 migration, then you are not alone. Office 365 has a lot of impressive benefits: it's cost effective, it's regularly updated and maintained, and it is extremely accessible.
But these benefits alone are not the only reason why you should copy Google Drive to Office 365. Below are some other reasons why you should strongly consider backing up all documents and data from Google:
Documents Can Be Lost For Good
If you are an organization, take note: some employees may maliciously delete documents, or they may do so unknowingly. Google Drive does keep track of all changes made to a document so that it is possible for you to revert to an older version. But what happens if the document is permanently deleted?
The good news is that Google admins do have the ability to restore documents that were deleted over the past thirty days. Anything beyond that, however, is lost for good. This means that an employee – knowingly or unknowingly – can change, corrupt or even delete critical files and hard work that you have stored in the cloud.
The Local Sync Is An Illusion
One feature that Google Drive offers is the ability to keep a local copy of all of your files as well as a copy online. The only problem is that if you create a Google Doc online, the link which shows up in your local Google Drive folder is just that – a link. You are not actually saving the file to your computer, meaning that if you backup these files, all you have backed up is a pointer and not the file itself.
Collaboration Issues
Programs like Google Drive are so popular with organizations because they allow people to collaborate in ways they have never been able to before. The problem is that not everyone is familiar with how the program works.
Let's say you have two employees working on a project and they are sharing a Google Doc. One employee finishes their part of the project, and so deletes the document from their Google Drive assuming that the other employee still has a copy. This is not the case. The document will then disappear from everyone's Drive, meaning that the project remains unfinished.
Google Glitches Do Happen
No company is “too big too fail”, and that includes Google. All users are familiar with occasional service disruptions. Unfortunately these glitches can also cause individuals such as your management team to completely lose access to imperative operational documents stored on Google Docs. This may not only mean a lot of time consuming work ahead, but it can lead to several other issues.
The need to migrate to Office 365 is clear, but choosing the right vendor will take a bit of research. When looking up migration service provider, read reviews about the product and see what other people are saying. The best vendors will offer cutting edge technology that promises to make copying information from cloud to cloud seamless and efficient.