Mimecast, a holistic e-mail management company offering SaaS-based email archiving, continuity, security and policy control, has solved some of the toughest e-mail management challenges for more than 2 000 customers for the past four years.
With this success, it has made a significant advancement in the 'greening' of enterprise IT by collectively eliminating more than 8 300 power-intensive servers for e-mail management worldwide, reducing their numbers by nearly 30 to one, with a more efficient service that manages enterprise e-mail security, continuity, archiving, and storage 'in the cloud'.
Mimecast also today unveiled collective energy savings realised by its customers from moving their in-house servers to the Mimecast SaaS-based system, representing sufficient energy savings to power more than 3 700 US households for a year.
Using the software as a service (SaaS) model, Mimecast offers a way to change how business communication and data is managed. While maintaining on-site control of their mail server, companies can migrate all other mail services offsite, thereby eliminating the security, compliance, archiving, storage and continuity headaches associated with comprehensive e-mail management. However, the power savings represent a significant 'green' benefit.
To fully grasp the impact that SaaS-based unified e-mail management can deliver, Mimecast examined typical operational environments to illustrate its customers' impact on the global ecosystem. The findings were dramatic:
* Mimecast customers have to date removed 8 349 servers from data centres worldwide by aggregating unified e-mail management from their premises into the Mimecast cloud, where multi-tenant grid architecture enables a server utilisation ratio of nearly 30 to one.
* To ensure these servers are retired and not simply switching ownership, the company leverages a secure, true multi-tenant grid system to optimise the amount of hardware necessary for its services.
* Looking at the energy savings a little differently, Mimecast customers replace enough servers to save the equivalent energy used to power 3 780 US households per year, and the equivalent of hundreds of barrels of oil and tons of raw materials annually.
* Mimecast users save as much on carbon emissions as 320 000 passenger cars using two million gallons of fuel.
With the data centre representing a prime opportunity to combine green IT initiatives with measurable cost and resource savings, companies that reduce this hardware footprint, specifically - those servers dedicated to e-mail management - are taking important steps to improving data centre practices and reaping the complimentary green benefits.
According to the August 2008 Gartner research: “Green IT: Immediate Issues for Users to Focus On”, it says: “More than 70% of Global 1000 enterprises will face significant data centre problems, such as limited power and floor space, during the next four years, requiring substantial capital costs to build new facilities or refurbish existing ones. Without such investments, these organisations will struggle to provide adequate and efficient IT services.” Moreover, “the immediate focus of green IT spending should be around data centre power, cooling and facilities problems”.
Commenting on this compelling business case, Mimecast CEO, Peter Bauer added: “The operational and energy efficiencies enterprises stand to gain from SaaS-based unified e-mail management are compelling. With energy efficiency and green IT issues front-and-centre in today's business environment, our unique approach to server reduction, and the tangible savings it provides, is borne out through the data and enabled through our secure, multi-tenant grid computing system. These savings represent yet another way in which customers can take control of their e-mail infrastructures and reduce the associated maintenance costs to ensure continuity while practicing resource conservation.”
For additional information regarding the green IT benefits of e-mail server reduction in the data centre, and examples of customer successes, please visit http://www.mimecast.com/us/customer-success/.
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