Archiving the hard way. In-house.

Fitzrovia IT have discovered that in-house email archiving projects tend to consume a disproportionate percentage of budgets relative to other IT initiatives. Data volumes simply grow too large too quickly to store and secure effectively within budget, time and technology constraints.  This information is also expected to be online, searchable and instantly retrievable by the business at all times.

Limitations of in-house archiving:

• Complexity of back-up

Email data must be stored on resilient hardware and be backed up, ideally in real-time, to one or more offsite locations. As data volumes grow, traditional backup and recovery strategies or disk to disk replication approaches become less effective.

• Fast growing and unpredictable data volumes

In-house email archiving systems do not scale at a software level and cannot perform adequately when required to handle large and rapidly growing volumes of data. Mistakes can be costly as large volumes of data inevitably encounter a performance degradation threshold.

Archiving the easy way. Mimecast.

Mimecast's online archiving service is immediately affordable, has predictable ongoing costs and requires less maintenance than in-house archiving methods.

• Scales to support your growing data needs

Mimecast automatically stores email securely offsite and lets you access and search your archive online.  It stores all incoming, outgoing and internal email for up to 10 years with no requirement for hardware or software.  Our storage grid is designed to manage the traffic of thousands of customers simultaneously.

• Search and retrieve archived email in seconds

All of your email is searchable with sub-second response times. Employees can search their own personal email archives and authorized managers, for example select HR or legal professionals, can have access to the whole database. Accessing email is easy and intuitive either directly through Microsoft Outlook or online via the webmail facility.

• A unified email solution

Archiving ideally should be part of a unified system,  not just another siloed application.  Gaining the full benefit of your email data is possible when all key functions are unified as a single solution and not doing so risks leaving the business with an incomplete set of data. 

That's why a Unified Email Management approach is critical.  An email service cannot be optimally managed, monitored and called upon when different components of an email reside in fragments across separate email technologies that are not inter-operable or linked.  Mimecast addresses this by bringing together email archiving, security, and continuity into a single best practice service.

• Compliant and secure

Mimecast gives IT administrator’s control over exactly who can see what in the archive. It also keeps full audit trails on every search and every access to email as well as system access, policy creation and changes.