Sendmail and Mimecast announced a new strategic partnership that provides additional enhanced options for integrating and configuring e-mail management solutions, which are needed to meet the growing hybrid-cloud e-mail deployment requirements of large global enterprises.
This strategic partnership allows global enterprises to combine the proven on-premises Sentrion Email Integration Platform with Mimecast's leading in-cloud Unified Email Management in a hybrid-cloud architecture for complete e-mail security, archiving and business continuity with any on-premises or in-cloud e-mail system.
"Gartner has long maintained that enterprises moving e-mail to the cloud may have unique requirements that cannot be entirely fulfilled with cloud-only provisioning," said Matt Cain, Vice-President, Gartner. "Large organisations, therefore, may require a flexible on-premises/cloud combination that can support a variety of unique e-mail deployment options for mailboxes, security, archiving, routing, and policy management."
Many large organisations are looking to benefit from the cost, flexibility and other gains of cloud-based e-mail deployments, but e-mail-to-cloud migrations cannot be done without also managing the large number of machine-generating e-mails from business systems that rely on on-premises e-mail infrastructure. Adding to the challenges for global enterprises are the wide range of security, regulatory compliance and corporate e-mail policy requirements.
"Our customers have been asking for scalable cloud e-mail applications that can easily integrate with our on-premises Sentrion Email Integration Platform with single provider support," said Glen D Vondrick, Sendmail President and CEO. "We are impressed by the proven Mimecast platform which offers the integration opportunity to deliver the hybrid-cloud architecture options enterprises need in order to consolidate multiple point products, reduce number of vendors, and further simplify the management of business e-mail complexity."
Sentrion is the de facto standard on-premises e-mail infrastructure platform deployed by major Fortune 1000 enterprises around the globe to manage the complexity of policy-based routing and integration of machine-generated e-mail with human collaboration e-mail. Mimecast's Unified Email Management platform is the only cloud-based e-mail management solution designed specifically to deliver a broad range of e-mail management capabilities in a tightly integrated high performance SaaS platform. Mimecast in the cloud supports more than 6 000 businesses worldwide.
"Sendmail's proven success in providing on-premises e-mail infrastructure to Fortune 1000 organisations makes them an ideal global enterprise partner for Mimecast," said Peter Bauer, CEO, Mimecast. "Businesses are being driven toward evaluating and adopting cloud-based e-mail solutions to control cost and complexity, which can be quite challenging in high volume machine generated e-mail environments.By combining Sentrion on-premises with Mimecast in the cloud, organisations can garner the advantages of the cloud while continuing to meet their business systems requirements. The option of a hybrid configuration means no matter what size of business and no matter how complex the requirements, we can enable the ideal e-mail management solution."
"This partnership will be of great benefit to organisations that are looking to gain the benefits that cloud computing has to offer for their important e-mail traffic, but are concerned about the security implications and the complexity of doing so," explained Fran Howarth, senior analyst, Bloor Research. "By combining Sentrion's on-premises capabilities with Mimecast's cloud-based unified e-mail management platform, organisations will gain the advantages offered by Mimecast's security capabilities, including its mail transfer agent technology that proves the integrity of messages being sent and received, as well as additional features that include archiving and continuity."
Sentrion Cloud Apps Powered by Mimecast are available now from Sendmail. Those applications include: Mimecast Email Security, Mimecast Email Archiving, and Mimecast Email Continuity. Deeper enterprise-specific integration between the two platforms is currently under way.
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