CASE STUDY

COMPANY BACKGROUND Renowned for integration of high-tech fabrication, function and

fashion, Spyder is the world’s leading skiwear and mountain-based

apparel brand. Based in Boulder, Colorado, Spyder products are

distributed in over 50 countries worldwide.

BUSINESS CHALLENGESAs more and more companies shift to the cloud and host internal

content on Google Sites, a recurring question stumps IT professionals:

how to get all of their fi les from existing fi le servers or SharePoint

environments to Google Apps for Work? Without an automated

bulk upload solution, the only way to do this is to save and upload

each fi le, and then go through each fi le and folder to reconstruct the

original folder hierarchies in Google Sites. This process is prone to

human error, and – since it doesn’t keep a record or log summary of

the migration process – errors arediffi cult to track.

HEADQUARTERS Boulder, CO

INDUSTRYRetail

NUMBER OF USERS170

SERVICES RENDEREDBulk File Uploader

Cloud Sherpas Helps Spyder Streamline

to Google Sites Using Bulk File Uploader

bulk uploads

CASE STUDY

2 | CASE STUDY - CLOUD SHERPAS HELPS SPYDER STREAMLINE BULK UPLOADS TO GOOGLE SITES

Spyder found itself dealing with these issues. Upon migrating

to Google Apps for Work, Spyder saw great potential in

the use of Google Sites to facilitate project collaboration

and fi le sharing with employees,

contractors, and vendors around

the world. However, most of the fi les

Spyder wanted to share were already

contained in a structured internal fi le

system, and certain fi les needed to

be revised and uploaded to Google

Sites regularly.

According to Brian Kasid, Spyder’s IT

Infrastructure Manager, “Prior to our

migration to Google Apps and using

Google Sites, we were using FTP for

sharing these fi les. It did the trick

but didn’t provide the many other

useful features, like versioning, that Google Sites provides.

However, a big problem we encountered was that, unlike

FTP, a user could only upload a single fi le at a time into the

File Cabinet of a Google Site.”

Spyder needed a tool that could not only quickly upload a

large number of fi les, but also allow users to select exactly

which fi les and folders to upload, so as not to upload

duplicative content.

SOLUTIONSpyder turned to the Bulk File Uploader (BFU) by Cloud

Sherpas to address this challenge. The BFU transfers all

selected fi les from clients’ servers into Google Sites while

maintaining existing folder structures. The product turns a

resource-intensive, manual task into an automated process

free from human error, and generates a log fi le summary

so IT administrators have a detailed record of the migration.

Because users can select or deselect specifi c fi les and

subfolders to upload, BFU allows for archival housecleaning

as IT managers can choose which fi les to upload to Google

Sites and which to leave behind. Thus, by using the BFU,

Spyder was able to separate fi les they wanted to publish on

Google Sites from fi les they wanted to keep internally (such

as revision fi les or excess logs) but not share.

RESULTSFor Spyder, the use of the Bulk File Uploader yielded

considerable time and cost savings. Uploading an entire

repository of fi les and structuring them into 20 diff erent

Google Sites, a task that would have originally taken several

hours, could now be done in a matter of minutes.

As Spyder’s Brian Kasid comments, “When we calculated the

cost in terms of employee time spent uploading multiple

fi les and revisions into multiple sites throughout the season,

it was a clear and easy decision to go with the Bulk File

Uploader from Cloud Sherpas. Cloud Sherpas has developed

a great tool and I would recommend it to any organization

migrating to Google Sites with a lot of fi les to transfer.”

Spyder continues to use the BFU to upload fi les to Sites and

client extranets. The Bulk File Uploader is a strong example

of how Cloud Sherpas facilitates effi cient and eff ective

migrations to the cloud.

“Cloud Sherpas has

developed a great tool

and I would recommend

it to any organization

migrating to Google

Sites with a lot of fi les

to transfer.”

— Brian KasidIT Infrastructure ManagerSpyder

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