Email continuity software or an online service

Because email has become such a pervasive and important part of business communication, having constant access to email is critical to your business. Yet all email systems will fail at some point for some reason-hardware failure, software errors, storage problems, human error, utility outages, or even natural catastrophes. Your ability to maintain email continuity during any kind of email system failure will have a direct effect on productivity and business success.

There are several strategies for providing email continuity. High availability solutions focus on keeping email servers up and running, requiring investment in resilient and redundant infrastructure. These approaches may deliver near 100 percent availability but at a significant cost. Email disaster recovery solutions are designed to get servers back up quickly after a failure. They may offer a less costly approach but can't deliver 100 percent continuity. Only email continuity software is able to deliver 100 percent continuity without prohibitive investment in software and hardware.

Mimecast delivers a superior email continuity software solution that simultaneously reduces costs and minimizes complexity.

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Mimecast: the leading email continuity software-as-a-service solution

Mimecast is a software-as-a-service company that offers email continuity software as part of a unified email management system. With Mimecast software, you can easily and affordably achieve 100 percent email continuity. As a service, Mimecast requires no hardware or software to be purchased-it is immediately affordable and can be implemented in as little as one day. And Mimecast's continuity software service offers predictable ongoing costs that simplify budgets for IT resources.

How it works

All you need to do to take advantage of Mimecast's email continuity software is to connect your email server to the Mimecast service. If your email servers go down for any reason, all incoming mail is automatically queued and delivered to a hosted inbox that users can reach via Outlook or a webmail facility. Users can read, reply, forward, and create new email. When your system has been recovered, all new incoming and outgoing email is delivered to the mail server and to each user's inbox.

Software-as-a-service for continuity, security, and email archiving

Mimecast's unified approach to email management delivers software-as-a-service solutions for a variety of messaging challenges:

• Email archive solution. With Mimecast's email archive software, you can automatically archive email for retrieval at any time. Store up to 10 years of email and perform sub-second searches directly from your desktop.
• Email spam protection. Mimecast offers an excellent Microsoft Exchange server spam filter, leaving 98.5 percent of spam undeliverable at the source.
• Email governance. Mimecast offers an end-to-end approach for data leak prevention and for complying with regulatory and legal requirements to produce documents.

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