Mimecast, a holistic e-mail management company offering SaaS-based e-mail archiving, continuity, security and policy control, today announced it has formed a technology partnership with Iron Mountain Digital, the leading provider of storage as a service solutions for backup, recovery and archiving.
The partnership is a key step in the growth of the Mimecast Partner Programme and allows the company to further broaden its presence and coverage in North America. Under this agreement, Iron Mountain will leverage Mimecast technology to power its hosted Total E-mail Management suite.
Mary Kay Roberto, SVP and General Manager at Mimecast North America, said: “Our partner ecosystem is expanding according to our plans. The technology partnership with Iron Mountain Digital demonstrates Mimecast's fulfilment of its strategic objective to expand the Mimecast Partner Programme in North America. This technology partnership will enable enterprises to control unmanageable e-mail storage and mailbox growth, manage unpredictable costs, and give IT departments peace of mind with sophisticated security controls and end-user continuity and search tools.” Mimecast was included in Gartner report: “Cool Vendors in E-mail Archiving 2009”, published 3 March 2009. *
Mimecast has experienced increased demand for its SaaS e-mail management services from the partner community, demonstrated by 318% revenue growth in the first nine months of fiscal 2009.
“Iron Mountain Digital's storage as a service model offers secure, cost-effective storage and access to digital information, including e-mail,” said John Clancy, president of Iron Mountain Digital, the company's technology business unit. “The Total E-mail Management Suite, powered by Mimecast technology, helps companies further manage their digital information and securely retain, recover, discover and delete e-mail at the end of its life cycle, while also providing continuity and hosted in Iron Mountain's data centres. With the new e-mail management solution, businesses benefit from storage within Iron Mountain's secure data centres, representing a tighter chain of custody and protection of business data.”
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Mimecast delivers SaaS-based enterprise e-mail management for archiving, discovery, continuity, security and policy. By unifying disparate and fragmented e-mail environments into one holistic solution that is always available from the cloud, Mimecast minimises risk and reduces cost and complexity, while providing total end-to-end control of e-mail. Founded in the United Kingdom in 2002, Mimecast serves more than 2 000 customers worldwide and has offices in Europe, North America, South Africa, Scandinavia, the Middle East and the Channel Islands. http://www.mimecast.com
* Mimecast was included in Gartner report: “Cool Vendors in E-mail Archiving 2009”, published 3 March 2009. The report was authored by: Carolyn DiCenzo, Kenneth Chin, Adam W Couture.
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