Mimecast Takes Home Gold at the Midmarket CIO Forum

I recently attended the Midmarket CIO Forum in Tucson, AZ, a three-day event for IT executives and solution providers. CIOs attending the event were asked to pick a Vendor Excellence award-winner within six categories, based on strategy and innovation. We’re pleased to announce that Mimecast was honored in the “Best Midmarket Solution – Service” category, recognized as an established service that has been exemplary in specifically meeting the needs of the midmarket.

The award ceremony took place on the third night of the Forum, following a few days of networking and boardroom sessions. I led one session titled, “The Future of Email – On Premises, Hybrid or Cloud?” in which I spoke about how organizations can remove the risk, complexity and cost of their email environment. IT managers are tasked with providing uninterrupted, ubiquitous email access to all employees amid the growing threat of malicious attacks like spear phishing, as well as downtime and data leaks.

As I noted in my session, and Vendor Excellence award voters recognized, this makes it necessary for organizations to have a solution, like Mimecast’s Unified Email Management (UEM), that extends their email platform’s core capabilities. For an organization with Microsoft Office 365, for example, Mimecast helps to enhance the solution’s key benefits, while mitigating the risk of the organization being reliant on a single cloud provider. With the strength Mimecast’s targeted set of solutions, like broad spectrum email security and journal archiving, alongside Microsoft, organizations ensure the constant availability of their email with a business continuity plan in the cloud.

We’re proud to have received this recognition from Midmarket CIO Forum and feel it validates not only our technology but our desire to support mid-market organizations around the world move to the cloud and improve the protection of their critical data and email. If you’d like to learn how organizations have worked with Mimecast to support their primary email environment, I invite you to check out these case studies.