Mimecast unifies email security, email archiving and continuity services in the cloud

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.”

Key Findings:
•    IDC opinion on market for cloud-based services
•    Overview on company strategy & background
•    Evaluation of email services
•    Differentiators of Mimecast online archiving vs on-premise archiving
•    IDC future outlook

IDC contrasts Mimecast’s cloud-based alternative to on-premise message archiving providers, as “providing capital and operating budget relief by offering a flexible and predictable subscription-based pricing model by eliminating the ongoing IT administration and troubleshooting of on-premise archiving software, servers, and storage.”

When making comparisons within the cloud-based marketplace, IDC’s research highlights Mimecast’s differentiator as “providing scalability with a grid-based software architecture allowing for growth in capacity and/or performance as needed” and one key element of Mimecast’s sustainability is “eliminating third-party dependencies by owning all the intellectual property enabling the service”.

About Mimecast: Mimecast's unified email management cloud-based service provides email archiving, email continuity and email security (including anti-spam and anti-virus) to thousands of organizations around the world.