Mimecast Cloud Added Functionalities on Top of Office 365

Mimecast Services Ltd has announced services to support enterprises moving to Microsoft Office 365 by addressing risks associated with data redundancy, HA and the need for protection against targeted attacks.

The services build on Office 365’s benefits – lower TCO, greater agility, reduced complexity and improved collaboration – by providing CIOs with additional cloud services that mitigate the risk of moving applications like email, as well as corporate data, to a single cloud vendor.

Orlando Scott-Cowley, director of technology marketing, Mimecast, commented: “Increasing numbers of organizations want to move their messaging, email and archiving to the cloud. But moving these critical services to a single cloud vendor then raises additional concerns for many that still need to be addressed before they are willing to move. The combination of Microsoft and Mimecast cloud services means even the most conservative of enterprises can embrace the cloud, and decommission the expensive on-premises solutions that have built up on the LAN.“

He continued: “Moving to the cloud doesn’t negate the need for a broad and effective BC plan. With the combined strength of Mimecast’s targeted set of solutions and Microsoft’s industry-leading cloud platform, organizations now have the ability to choose services from more than one vendor, spreading the risk and protecting both their data and end users. Mimecast’s new services for Office 365 are the last piece in the puzzle needed to enable enterprises to make the move to the cloud without further delay.“

Mimecast’s Office 365 services include:

• HA Email Gateway for Office 365 – A continuity platform for Microsoft Office 365, delivered from the Mimecast Cloud. The service delivers email to end users during planned or unplanned outages of any part of their email infrastructure, including Office 365 – a BC and DR planning consideration.

• Broad Spectrum Email Security for Office 365 – An email gateway that overlays Office 365 and Exchange online protection to give customers a blended cloud security solution. This approach to security includes the company’s anti-spear-phishing targeted threat protection offering, and supports protection in a changing threat landscape.

• Journal Archiving for Office 365 – An independent perpetual archive of all email to a cloud archive for added data resilience and backup purposes. Content can be accessed by end users and eDiscovery workers for improved productivity and to satisfy eDiscovery requirements.

• Legacy Archive Data Management for Office 365 – Allows historical email archive content to be ingested into the Archive, and be accessible to support improved productivity, eDiscovery and compliance needs. It helps remove the cost and complexity of managing legacy on-premise archives.

• Large File Send for Office 365 – The Large File Send (LFS) is available for Office 365, making email attachment size limits irrelevant through the ability to send and receive large files via email.

• Federated Enterprise Services for Office 365 – Provides unified policy administration and control across environments. This supports hierarchical policy inheritance, unified administration logon and discovery, and archive isolation of view requirements.