An email continuity policy delivers 100 percent access to email.

Delivering constant access to email must be a high priority for any business. Email has become not only a primary form of communication, but also a way of handling purchases, conducting transactions, documenting negotiations, and much more. When timely delivery of email is hampered, the business can suffer losses in productivity, reputation, and the bottom line.

An email continuity policy can help deliver constant access to email. An email continuity policy differs from other approaches in that it offers 100 percent uptime and yet remains affordable. High availability strategies, for example, provide constant or near constant access to email through costly investments in infrastructure to create resilient and redundant systems. A recovery policy, on the other hand, provides fast recovery of email servers in the event of an outage-this approach is less costly but is not designed to provide 100 percent uptime.

For companies seeking the technology to implement a cost-effective email continuity policy, Mimecast offers a solution that is both powerful and affordable, and that reduces IT complexity as well.

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Mimecast provides the tools for a highly effective email continuity policy.

Mimecast, a software-as-a-service company, provides a unified email management system that enables businesses to quickly and easily put an email continuity policy in place. Mimecast's email continuity service requires no purchase of hardware or software, so it is immediately affordable while also offering predictable ongoing costs.

Mimecast supports the email continuity policy of your company by ensuring access to email at any time. Regardless of the nature of the catastrophe-human error, software problems, hardware failures, and even natural disasters-Mimecast provides a way for users to read and respond to email and to create new messages throughout any outage.

When you connect your email servers to the Mimecast continuity service, Mimecast uses proprietary MTA tools to automatically queue and provide access to new email when your primary email system fails.

Users can access their email directly through Microsoft Outlook or via Mimecast's webmail facility, using any computer with Internet access. When your email servers are recovered, Mimecast routes all email received and created to the inboxes of the appropriate users.

Email solutions for continuity, antivirus, and antispam policy

In addition to supporting your email continuity policy, Mimecast's unified email management system provides tools that let you:

• Archive emails. Mimecast's Outlook and Exchange archive solution lets you automatically store up to 10 years of email at a secure offsite location.
• Stop spam. With Mimecast's email spam filter, you can cut out 98.5 percent of spam at the source.
• Prevent leaks. Mimecast's email DLP (data leak prevention) tools help you protect your business from inadvertent or malicious leaks.
• Thwart viruses. Mimecast's anti-virus email protection has a 100 percent track record in stopping viruses.

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