The market for cloud-based IT infrastructure services delivered in a software-as-a-service model continues to grow. IDC research indicates this model of IT delivery is disrupting traditional licensed software markets and changing how archiving, backup, recovery, and security technologies are procured. Adoption of these services is also impacting how and where businesses consume their storage capacity. 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.
V E N D O R P R O F I L E S V P . 2 6 : M i m e c a s t U n i f i e s E m a i l S e c u r i t y , A r c h i v i n g , a n d C o n t i n u i t y S e r v i c e s i n t h e C l o u d Laura DuBois
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This Vendor Profile is part of the Small Vendor Profile (SVP) Series, a special IDC initiative of IDC's storage hardware, storage software, semiconductor, and compliance infrastructure groups. The goal of the SVP Series is to profile smaller
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Founded in 2002 and headquartered in the United Kingdom, Mimecast is a provider of unified email archiving, security, and continuity services delivered in a software-as-a-service (SaaS) or online model to the enterprise. The company is privately held, with early equity provided by company founders Neil Murray and Peter Bauer and more recently by private investors and Dawn Capital. Mimecast currently has approximately 145 employees with operations in the United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Sweden, the Channel Islands, and South Africa. Mimecast has been focused on providing a breadth of infrastructure services targeted at enterprise email environments. These IT infrastructure services include:
! Email archiving
! Email continuity
! Email security
Note: Mimecast also offers email policy management, email marketing, and email attachment management services. However, the focus of this document is on its archiving, continuity, and security services. C o m p a n y S ... [download for more]
