Ingram Micro Adds SkyKick Office 365 Migration to Portfolio

Distributor Ingram Micro (IM) seems intent on enabling its channel reseller customers to help their end customers migrate to Microsoft Office 365. The distributor has signed an agreement to add SkyKick Migration Suite to its growing portfolio of cloud offerings.

The migration product is now available to Ingram Micro resellers via the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace, providing the channel with an automated way to move customers to Office 365—something that is SkyKick's modus operandi.

SkyKick's Migration Suite was designed to help IT consultants, systems integrators, managed service providers, VARs and other partners in the channel to automate the entire migration process.

"Migrating a customer from hosted or on-premise to cloud-based solutions can be a major undertaking for channel partners because it requires a lot of time, expertise and energy," said Renee Bergeron, vice president of Managed Services and Cloud Computing at Ingram Micro North America, in a prepared statement. "SkyKick's Migration Suite helps channel partners simplify the entire process and profitably move their customers' email, calendars and more to the cloud."

For partners, automated migration to Office 365, which is continuing to catch on with all levels of business, can speed up those migrations and let partners focus on higher value, related services.

According to SkyKick, Migration Suite "helps partners to improve velocity, reduce project risk and complexity and simplify the management of the migration project."

Not that Microsoft needs any help pushing people to Office 365, as it's attracting users in mass quantities, but it's good for Office 365 partners to have useful tools to make the migration to the cloud service as painless and fast as possible.

It would be nice if such migrations were as simple as flipping a switch, but when that's not an option (and since when is it ever?), good migration tools are a differentiating bonus.