Awards & Analyst Recognition
IDC Vendor Profile: Emerging cloud-based email services
Laura DuBois, Program Director for IDC Storage Software Practice
Leading analyst research from IDC, offers insight on emerging cloud-based vendor Mimecast in the email archiving, security and continuity market. Laura Dubois, Program Director for IDC's Storage Software practice evaluated Mimecast in an IDC Vendor Profile.
IDC highlights, “The market for cloud-based IT infrastructure services delivered in a software-as-a service model continues to grow. Given the current economic climate, budget-sensitive organizations are looking at the capital and operating expense relief benefits of cloud-based archiving, recovery, and security IT infrastructure services.”
Mimecast Named in Gartner "Cool Vendors in Archiving, 2009"
According to the Gartner report, “The archiving market continues to expand as cool vendors enter with new storage options and services that make archiving more cost-effective and ease the migration of older data. IT organizations should continue to evaluate new, cool vendors as part of ongoing efforts to continue to update and modernize their services.”
Read Gartner's 'Cool Vendor in Archiving, 2009'.
Winner: Online Product of the Year
The Legal Technology Awards. London
Mimecast was announced winner of the ‘Online Product of the Year’ at a prestigious awards ceremony in London on January 29th 2009.
The Legal Technology Awards are dedicated to the strategic implementation of technology within law firms, recognising the success of the firms and suppliers who are at the cutting edge of this continuously developing area of law firm practice management.
Winner: LTN’s Bronze Award
Legal Technology News, New York
Awarded LTN’s Bronze Award at LegalTech® New York. For its sixth annual awards program, LTN editors asked the publication’s more than 40,000 subscribers to identify products and vendors in 25 categories that represent outstanding achievement in legal technology.
Winner: SC Magazine Award
SC Magazine, London
"Mimecast offers an amazing degree of control over the operation of the service, with policy options on every aspect of mail delivery, handling and management. The array of controls is daunting, but presented in a very effective interface that even includes a fully fledged web mail client."
"Mimecast deserves kudos for its extensive controls and features. It might be new to the scene, but it has built a product worthy of attention. Unlike many others, 24x7 support is included without extra charge, and long-term archival is part of the service."
"With no intervention required from users, we were expecting a very simple management GUI, but were astonished at what is actually provided."
Winner: 'Online Product of the Year: Highly Commended"
Legal Technology Awards, London
The Legal Technology Awards 2008 are dedicated to the strategic implementation of technology within law firms, recognising the success of the firms and suppliers who are at the cutting edge of this continuously developing area of law firm practice management.



