An email continuity solution aids email disaster recovery

Access to email is critical to business operations and employee productivity. When email servers go down, the negative consequences can be significant. Communication between employees is halted. Customers grow quickly frustrated. Opportunities are lost and organizational reputation suffers. Since email disaster is inevitable at some point - no system is foolproof - having a solution in place to maintain access to email during disaster recovery s necessary.

For continuous email access during email disaster recovery, email continuity solutions have emerged as a strategy that is superior to alternative solutions. For example, availability solutions are oriented toward providing redundancy in the hope of preventing disaster or outage, but these solutions are typically very expensive and cannot deliver access to email should the system fail. Recovery solutions focus on quickly getting systems back up and running - they tend to be less costly but still cannot guarantee continuous access to email during email disaster recovery. Email continuity solutions, on the other hand, deliver access to email through alternative means while the system is done, giving IT departments the time they need for the email disaster recovery process.

Mimecast delivers a leading email continuity technology that not only delivers 100 percent access to messages during email disaster recovery, but that provides a unified approach to email management that is simple, powerful and affordable.

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Mimecast: an SaaS-based solution for email disaster recovery

As a Software-as-a-Service company, Mimecast provides a unified email management service that includes continuity technology for access to email during disaster recovery. When email servers go down, Mimecast enables users to continue to access and respond to new incoming messages, write new outgoing email, work with email already in their inbox, and search an archive of up to 10 years of email data.

As a continuity service for email access during email disaster recovery, Mimecast requires no investment in software or hardware - it is immediately affordable, offers predictable costs for ongoing service and integrates easily with existing IT infrastructure.

How Mimecast delivers email access during disaster before recovery is complete

During an outage, Mimecast delivers 100 percent access to email by automatically sending new incoming email to an email disaster recovery inbox rather than to the failed email servers. Users can access their mail via Microsoft Outlook or through Mimecast's webmail facility. When email servers have been recovered, queued email and any email the user has created during the outage are sent to the user's regular inbox.

A unified approach to email management

In addition to email access during email disaster recovery, Mimecast provides comprehensive tools for managing email, including:

• Email archiving services - Mimecast's email archiving Software-as-a-Service solution automatically stores up to 10 years of email and enables users to perform sub-second searches from their desktop. This Exchange archive solution also provides a complete audit trail of searches of and access to email for compliance reporting and eDiscovery.
• Email spam filter - using an innovative "on the wire" technology, Mimecast stops 99 percent of spam before it enters the system.
• Email data leak prevention (Email DLP) - Mimecast email monitoring technology can help prevent both inadvertent and malicious data leaks.

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