Mimecast is an international company specializing in cloud-based email management for Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Office 365, including security, archiving, and continuity services to protect business mail.
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History
Mimecast was founded in 2003 by Peter Bauer and Neil Murray. It has offices in London, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Cape Town, Johannesburg and Melbourne.
In January, 2010, the company raised $21 million in Series B financing from Index Ventures and Dawn Capital.
By June 2015 Mimecast had 14,500 customers, up from 7,000 in 2007.
In September 2012 Mimecast raised $62m in a Series C funding round, led by New York-based Insight Venture Partners.
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Founding
Mimecast co-founder and CEO, Peter Bauer, previously founded FAB Technology in the mid-nineties and sold it to Idion. Earlier, Peter trained as a Microsoft systems engineer and worked with corporate messaging systems.
Mimecast co-founder and CTO is Neil Murray, previously CTO at Global Technology Services and founder of Pro-Solutions, he leads the development of all the company's technology, overseeing the architecture of Mimecast's service and sets out the overall technical vision and strategy for the service.
Other executives include Mimecast Chief Scientist Nathaniel Borenstein, who was amongst the original designers of the MIME protocol for formatting multimedia Internet electronic mail - he sent the world's first e-mail attachment on 11 March 1992.
Technology
The service uses a massively-parallel grid infrastructure for email storage and processing through geographically dispersed data centers, enabling it to offer a 100% uptime service level agreement on all services. Its Mail Transfer Agent provides intelligent email routing based on server or user mailbox location.
Email Security
- Secure Email Gateway: user optimized spam protection, malware, DoS and DHA protection. Real-time diagnostic and reporting; data loss prevention, secure message delivery, email branding and disclaimer management, document conversion and metadata management, real-time online queue management, large attachment management, advanced routing and spooling.
- Targeted Threat Protection: URL rewriting at the gateway with time-of-click scanning for malicious content before being opened.
- Large File Send: send and receive large files from Outlook, with encryption, optional access key and custom expiration dates.
- Secure Messaging: secure email channel for sensitive information either user-initiated or policy-driven.
Enterprise Information Archiving
- Cloud Archive for Email: Encrypted cloud storage which saves emails in triplicate in an immutable storage system. Users can access and search emails through an Outlook desktop client. Archive access is available via a Mac desktop app and apps for Android, BlackBerry, iOS and Windows Mobile devices.
Mailbox Continuity
- Continuity: During primary mail system outages, email can be accessed via Microsoft Outlook, through a web browser and via mobile devices.
Awards
- Best Cloud Specialist Vendor of the Year 2014 - CRN Channel Awards.
- 2013 Healthcare IT Summit XCellence Awards.
- 2013 Deloitte Technology Fast 50.
- One of London Stock Exchange's '1000 companies to inspire Britain' 2013.
- Computing Security Awards 2012: Messaging Security Solution of the Year.
- Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference: Innovative Customer Advocacy Partner of the Year.
- Sunday Times Tech Track 100 2012: Ranked 45th.
- UK Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2012: Ranked 20th.
- Computer Reseller News Channel Awards 2012: Security Vendor of the Year.
References
Source of article : Wikipedia
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