Chapter 7: Data Migration

In the previous chapters, we have extensively talked about Google Workspace features and some of the unique capabilities that they bring to consumer and enterprise markets for collaboration. And invariably, you may have asked the questions, "How would I move to Google Workspace?" and "How would I move all the data from my environments to Google Workspace to take advantage of all the goodness?"

If you have been working with cloud-hosted applications for a while, you may have noticed that it is relatively easy to move data to a new platform, rather than extracting data from an old platform. Dubbed "vendor lock-in," it becomes challenging to move data to a different service due to proprietary technology, unique protocols, data formats, and so on. As you navigate through tooling and platform choices, it is very important to keep this in mind.

In this chapter, we will take an extensive look at the data migration capabilities...