Mimecast, the holistic e-mail management company offering SaaS-based e-mail archiving, continuity, security and policy control, has partnered with local data security solutions provider J2 Software to expand its reseller base in South Africa.
J2 Software managing director John Mc Loughlin says considering that J2 Software is focused on information security and data leak prevention, Mimecast is a perfect addition to its list of products and services. “We are really happy that we have found such a powerful product which also falls into our goal of adding genuine business value to our clients. The solution really does lower cost, complexity and management overhead.”
Mimecast is a rapidly expanding software as a service (SaaS) company; it provides an online technology platform that radically improves the way companies manage their most important business communication and data.
According to Mimecast South Africa's business development and alliances director, Grant Hodgkinson, Mimecast takes care of millions of e-mails and documents for thousands of companies around the world every day. “As Mimecast is delivered using the cloud computing or software as a service model, clients gains immediate control over their e-mail management systems and their budgets. Their expense is purely the monthly per seat fee, with no need for additional spend on hardware, software or training.”
Mimecast's Unified Email Management service provides a comprehensive solution for administering all aspects of e-discovery and e-mail archiving services. Mimecast also provides e-mail anti-spam and e-mail filtering services, e-mail compliance solutions, and e-mail governance.
Hodgkinson says by connecting existing in-house e-mail servers to Mimecast, organisations can benefit from the carrier-grade infrastructure, and services including data leak prevention solutions, e-mail archiving, and e-mail continuity. “Because we offer a new way of doing things that is cheaper, faster, more secure and simply put - more intelligent, Mimecast has grown to be a very popular business service with clients ranging from smaller businesses with under 10 seats, to 18 000-seat implementations from the public to private sector.”
“The offering has achieved almost instant success with our latest clients added onto the Mimecast service, being McEwan Advertising and Grotto Manufacturing. The list is growing fast and we have also added traction to our client list as a result of our expansion to Cape Town and Durban,” concludes Mc Loughlin.
For more information, contact J2 Software on 0861 00 J TWO (5896) or e-mail john@jtwo.co.za.
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J2 Software is a leading South African IT security company. While most organisations are now starting to realise the impact of data theft and abuse of IT resources by employees, J2 recognised the need to protect against this activity some time ago. J2 Software was born after the founders identified an opportunity in the IT market in South Africa and the rest of Africa. They saw a growing need for information security solutions that were comprehensive, simple to deploy, easy to use and good value for money. After tireless searching and investigation, J2 Software was officially launched in 2006.
Shortly after inception, the customer list of J2 Software started to grow rapidly; and this continues to be the case to this day. J2 Software has provided services and solutions to numerous renowned, forward thinking companies with sites running in South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
J2 Software provides solutions and services to various organisations that have a requirement to secure their sensitive information as well as implement, monitor and enforce internal security policies. In recent times organisations are placing a far higher priority on the security, accountability and control of their most prized asset, their information.
Adding to this is the ever-growing pressure being placed on companies and their directors' to maintain the security and control of the sensitive data of their clients, as well as the necessity to conform to various local and international compliance regulations.
With the continued rise of identity theft and confidential data leakage the need for our product offering is not only and advantage, but an absolute necessity.
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