Analyst Recognition & Whitepapers
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.”
Gartner Recognition
Mimecast Named 'Cool Vendor 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.”
Email Archiving: SaaS Strengths vs. On-Premise Solutions
A comparative review of SaaS vs On-premise Archiving:
- Ease of installation
- Simplicity of system management
- IT staffing
- Installation costs
- TCO of On-premise
- Predictability of SaaS costs
IDC Whitepaper
EXCLUSIVE IDC REPORT: Using a Hosted Service for Holistic Email Management
Download this whitepaper to find out more about reducing the cost & complexity of email management. Read IDC's prediction of the ‘3S’ technology wave called - the merging of storage, security and systems management.
Blocks & Files
READ the Analysis on Mimecast's parrallel grid-base mail archive in the cloud.
"You don't need to have Google's billions to take a Google-like approach to building an extreme scaleout storage infrastructure. E-mail archiver Mimecast has done and is doing it, so well that it is adding 50TB - 70TB of customer data to its storage grid, its cloud-based Unified Email Management archive service, every month......"
Ferris Research
Snapshot Review by Ferris Research
"Competitive Strengths as Perceived by Company
- Unified, easy-to-use administration. A single console is used for all functions.
- Close Outlook integration, providing a natural and familiar user experience; e.g., all searches are conducted within Outlook.
- Underlying platform. The software is all developed by Mimecast, with the exception of components that are naturally from third parties, such as selected virus filters. This means that 1) Mimecast can respond quickly to new market requirements; and 2) Pricing can be kept low."
Osterman Research
The Impact of Messaging and Web Threats 2008
An Osterman Research Whitepaper
Published April 2008
An analyst paper reviewing emerging security issues in 2008; techniques used to combat spam & attacks; comparisons of delivery models including SaaS; and new defense approaches.
CBR & Ovum : 4 more law firms working with Mimecast
Mimecast, provider of web-based email management services, has announced partnerships with four UK-based law firms. Mimecast now supplies email management services to one-in-three UK law firms.
Osterman Research
A Guide to Messaging Archiving
An Osterman Research White Paper
Published January 2008
This paper investigates the reasons to deploy messaging archiving and important factors to consider when selecting an archiving system.
Ovum
Analyst Mike Davis commentary on Mimecast's announcement that it will be using its hosted platform to provide services for Microsoft Outlook users, with plans for additional services to support Exchange and SharePoint deployments.
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