What Happens to Hyperlinks During Migration? You’d Be Shocked
When performing cloud data migration, the biggest challenge businesses face is migrating hyperlinks. Without proper migration strategy, hyperlinks break during cloud migration and often lead to significant disruption and user impact
And since hyperlinks are a critical aspect of collaboration between individual users and their specific teams, migrating hyperlink accurately without breakage is utmost important for businesses planning to preserve full collaboration context in the destination cloud platform.
Key Takeaways:
What Happens to Hyperlinks During Migration?
To help you understand hyperlink migration scenarios, we will first give you context around what hyperlink is. Hyperlinks are basically links through which one document gets interlinked to another document. A good example of this would be a Word document that links to another Excel document that links to the Word doc.
Now, when you migrate these interlinked documents from one cloud platform to another, the hyperlinks between them break. But why do they break? Well, the hyperlinks that are created on the source cloud are dependent on platform-specific addressing and structure.
When you migrate those hyperlinks, the platform specific URL structures do not work in the new destination cloud platform and cause the links to break.
Why is it Important for Businesses to Migrate Hyperlinks?
It goes without saying that hyperlinks are one of the main components of efficient collaboration between individual users and their teams. Right from quickly accessing interlinked documents to consolidating all important documents in a single file, hyperlinks undoubtedly increase user productivity across the organization
Therefore, it is important to migrate all hyperlinks when switching from one cloud platform to another. Also, when migrating hyperlinks, it is important to ensure that they are preserved accurately without any mismatches to avoid security and compliance violations.
Shocking Facts on Hyperlinks Migration
Here are some of the shocking facts on hyperlink breakage and migration that you’d like to know:
Fact 1. Manually Fixing Hyperlinks Takes a Lot of Time
Yes, fixing broken links manually can take a lot of IT man hours which eventually trickles down into wasted spend. Here’s a simple calculation example of how much time and money it can cost to fix broken hyperlinks post migration.
| Items (as examples) | Figures (as examples) |
|---|---|
| Number of broken links | 100,000 |
| Cost per IT man-hour | $40 |
| The average time taken to fix each broken link | 0.05 hours (3 minutes) |
| Total time required to fix all the broken links (0.05 x 100,000) | 5000 hours |
| The total cost required to fix all the broken links (5000 x 40) | $200,000 |
Fact 2. Large Enterprises Have Millions of Hyperlinks to Migrate
Many large enterprises that are performing multi cloud migration of a large pool of users often have several thousands and even millions of hyperlinks to migrate.
For example, one of our premier customers, a major media conglomerate, migrated over 3 petabytes of data and 23,000+ users across multiple cloud platforms and had millions of hyperlinks to migrate.
With our hyperlink migration tool, CloudFuze Hyperlink Fixer, they were able to migrate over 10 million hyperlinks without any breakages.
Fact 3. Many Businesses Go Through the Broken Hyperlinks Disaster
A lot of businesses that use other cloud migration tools often end up with broken hyperlinks and face collaboration impact post migration. We have a lot of such businesses coming to us for broken hyperlinks remediation.
In these types of scenarios, CloudFuze Hyperlink Fixer acts as a remediation tool to fix all the broken links.
Learn more about CloudFuze Hyperlink Fixer in this video:
Migrate Hyperlinks Without Breakages
With CloudFuze, you can migrate petabytes of files and millions of hyperlinks without any breakage issues. We have a track record of helping businesses migrate thousands and millions of hyperlinks while accurately preserving full context and metadata.
Contact us today for a professional demo of our hyperlink fixer tool that works in tandem with our migration tool.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What are hyperlinks and how do they function during data migration?
Hyperlinks are links in documents that link one document to another. They are one of the most important components of everyday user collaboration in almost all organizations.
Since hyperlinks are based on the URL structure of a particular cloud platform, they break during cloud migration as the specific URL structure is not supported in the destination cloud platform.
2. What best practices should be followed to preserve hyperlinks during data migration?
When transferring hyperlinks during cloud migration, it is important to use a proven hyperlink migration tool, such as CloudFuze Hyperlink Fixer, to be able to migrate all the hyperlinks without any breakage issues.
3. Why are hyperlinks highly challenging to migrate?
Hyperlinks are highly challenging to migrate as they are based on a specific URL structure of a particular cloud platform. Since another cloud platform does not support the same specific URL structure, hyperlinks break during migration.
4. How to migrate thousands of hyperlinks?
The best way to migrate thousands and millions of hyperlinks across cloud platforms is to use a proven hyperlink migration tool like CloudFuze Hyperlink Fixer. The tool is purpose built to handle the migration of thousands and millions of hyperlinks and ensure accurate preservation in the destination cloud.
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