Mimecast Leads the "Greening" of the Data Center

Company Eliminates 8,349 Servers from Clients` IT Footprint with SaaS-Based
Unified eMail Management Services
LOS ANGELES--(Business Wire)--
Mimecast®, a holistic email management company offering SaaS-based email
archiving, continuity, security and policy control, has solved some of the
toughest email 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 email management worldwide, reducing their numbers
by nearly 30 to 1, with a more efficient service that manages enterprise email
security, continuity, archiving, and storage "in the cloud." Mimecast also today
unveiled collective energy savings realized 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 U.S. 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 email management. However,
the power savings represent a significant "green" benefit.

To fully grasp the impact that SaaS-based unified email 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 centers
worldwide by aggregating unified email management from their premises into the
Mimecast cloud, where multi-tenant grid architecture enables a server
utilization ratio of nearly 30 to 1.
* To ensure these servers are retired and not simply switching ownership, the
company leverages a secure, true multi-tenant grid system to optimize 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 U.S. 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 center 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 email
management-are taking important steps to improving data center practices and
reaping the complimentary green benefits.

According to the August 2008 Gartner research, "Green IT: Immediate Issues for
Users to Focus On," "more than 70% of Global 1000 enterprises will face
significant data center 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 organizations will
struggle to provide adequate and efficient IT services." Moreover, "the
immediate focus of green IT spending should be around data center 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 email management are compelling. With energy efficiency and
green IT issues front-and-center 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 email infrastructures and reduce the associated maintenance
costs to ensure continuity while practicing resource conservation."

For additional information regarding the green IT benefits of email server
reduction in the data center, and examples of customer successes, please visit
http://www.mimecast.com/us/customer-success/.

About Mimecast:

Mimecast delivers SaaS-based enterprise email management including archiving,
discovery, continuity, security and policy. By unifying disparate and fragmented
email environments into one holistic solution that is always available from the
cloud, Mimecast minimizes risk and reduces cost and complexity, while providing
total end-to-end control of email. Founded in the United Kingdom in 2002,
Mimecast serves more than 2,000 customers worldwide and has offices in Europe,
North America, Africa, the Middle East and the Channel Islands.

www.mimecast.com

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