Email archiving services simplify email retention.

Archiving email is an essential part of business operations today. Because email serves a vital role not only in communication but also in documenting contracts, negotiations, purchases, and commitments, email archiving is critical to managing data effectively and protecting your organization from risk.

But implement an in-house email archiving solution can be a significant drain on IT resources. Creating the central repository necessary for an email archive can be expense and technically complex, especially as the number of mail servers and geographic locations increase. With the volume of email and the size of attachments growing rapidly, an in-house solution presents ever greater need for hardware and quickly consumes a disproportionate amount of IT resources.

Email archiving services can simplify this task by outsourcing archiving operations. With email archiving services, you can avoid the expense of purchasing and deploying expensive in-house archiving solutions and the associated costs of maintaining and upgrading them to keep up with growing volumes of email data.

Mimecast email archiving services reduce complexity.

Mimecast is a software-as-a-service company with a rapidly expanding customer base and an approach to unified email management and email archiving services that is simpler, cheaper, faster, and more secure.

Mimecast email archiving services are immediately affordable, provide predictable ongoing costs, and can be switched on instantly. As an email archiving solution, Mimecast stores all incoming, outgoing, and internal email-in a secure location offsite. You can store email for up to 10 years and search archives easily from Microsoft Outlook or through an online webmail facility. Searches are fast-response times are less than a second-because Mimecast's email storage grid can handle traffic from thousands of organizations at once. And because Mimecast solves the email archiving dilemma with services rather than hardware or software, equipment costs can be avoided and administrative expenses can be greatly reduced.

Improve email archiving compliance with audit services.

Because email is so vital to business communication, email archiving services serve as a crucial tool for compliance with corporate regulation. From Sarbanes-Oxley to PCI, companies are under stricter requirements for the retention of data and communications. Mimecast services provide a complete audit trail on not only every search but also every access to retained email. Mimecast also tracks access to the system, as well as the creation of email retention policies and subsequent changes to them.

Unified email management includes archiving services.

Email archiving services are but one aspect of Mimecast's unified solution to email management. Mimecast provides critical tools for email data leak prevention. Innovative solutions for email GRC and email spam protection are included. Mimecast offers a powerful anti-virus email solution, as well as the tools to manage email monitoring throughout the organization.