Of course, there are certain qualification restrictions that organizations that want to switch to OneDrive Business Services for free require a minimum of 500 users, and they are not currently consumer users of OneDrive for Business or Office 365. The free service sign up starts today at June 30 end.
Microsoft said the move will help organizations quickly and smoothly transition to OneDrive for Business or Office 365 using FastTrack services.
Justin Litherland, vice president of IT retail at Lowe's,
'The FastTrack team has helped us provide best practices, documentation, and pre-migration checklists, and it makes sense for us to work with as many people as we want, as we are going to migrate.'
In addition to Lowe's, Accenture is another Microsoft cloud-based company that employs over 400,000 employees on OneDrive. In fact, Microsoft said more than 350,000 organizations are using OneDrive, and the number is continuing to grow.
In fact, Microsoft has been pushing its cloud services business, and recently the company added a feature to OneDrive for Business that allows files to be restored to a point in time to prevent similar ransomware attacks from happening The feature was first announced at the Ignite conference in September last year.