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Exchange to Exchange Migration for Retail Entertainment Giant

“MigrationWiz gets top marks from us for both their application and technical support.”

- Ryan Walters, Infrastructure Engineer
Blockbuster

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Blockbuster
With over 3,000 stores throughout the Americas, Europe, and Australia, Blockbuster is a leading provider of in-home movie and game entertainment. Open 365 days a year, Blockbuster’s stores attract over 50 million customers annually and is one of the most recognizable entertainment brands in the world.

As a leader in the media entertainment industry, Blockbuster’s offerings have kept pace with the rapid evolution of technology and extend well beyond in-store entertainment. Blockbuster offers convenient access to entertainment anywhere, anytime. Blockbuster provides convenient, on-demand access to media entertainment across multiple channels, including in-store, mail-based, and digital delivery. More information about Blockbuster can be found at http://www.blockbuster.com/.

The Challenge
Following a successful merger with Dish Network, Blockbuster wanted to consolidate its hosted BPOS-D (dedicated) Exchange environment with Dish Network’s on-premise Exchange platform. One driving motivation for the project was to eliminate duplicate messaging infrastructures. Other goals were to facilitate integration with existing applications, ensure a consistent SLA, and provide unified support to all users. As a result, Blockbuster required a migration solution that was compatible with the BPOS-D hosted platform and able to meet stringent security requirements.

The MigrationWiz Solution
MigrationWiz offered a rapid, cloud-based, zero-footprint solution that met both Blockbuster’s and Microsoft’s requirements. Blockbuster’s decision to choose MigrationWiz to perform their migration was an easy one. “MigrationWiz was the only tool we found that could even access our BPOS-D environment and successfully move data. They saved us from having to engineer an overly complex migration strategy” said Ryan Walters, Infrastructure Engineer.

MigrationWiz’s web-based interface enables migration of organizations of any size. Walters said that using MigrationWiz’s web based interface to manage the migration of thousands of mailboxes was “easy.” In only 14 hours, all mailboxes, including calendars, contacts, email, journals, tasks, and notes, were migrated to the destination. Walters was also able to leverage the technical expertise of MigrationWiz’s support staff. “The support team was able to quickly identify incorrect settings in our Exchange environment that were causing errors in the applications. MigrationWiz gets top marks from us for both their application and technical support!” said Walters.

About MigrationWiz
MigrationWiz is a complete cloud-based migration solution that helps companies move from existing to new messaging systems seamlessly and affordably. With no hardware or software to install, the patent-pending technology is a solution designed to meet the needs of individuals, IT administrators, consultants, system integrators and service providers interested in migrating mailboxes. MigrationWiz is a trusted brand in over 50 countries by global Fortune 500 organizations, governments, healthcare providers, and more. Customers can sign-up, configure and initiate migrations in a matter of minutes with no prior experience. For more information, visit www.migrationwiz.com.

Organization: Blockbuster
Location: McKinney, Texas, USA
Industry: Retail Entertainment
Employees: 22,000 (Dish Network)
Total Mailboxes Migrated: 1,500
Source Messaging System: Microsoft Exchange 2010 (Hosted BPOS-D)
Destination Messaging System: Microsoft Exchange 2010 (On-premise)

© 2011 BitTitan Incorporated. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. MigrationWiz is a trademark of BitTitan, Inc. in the USA and/or other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners.

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