Every service and upgrade you’ve ever added to your email environment made sense at the time. Collectively, though, what did it build into? Too often, the answer was a tangled collection of disparate systems, software, hardware and vendors. Managing and maintaining this level of complexity is a strain on time and resources, and can limit flexibility by making it hard to change the way the business operates.
Moving to Mimecast cuts through all of this complexity at a stroke. You keep your mail server, while everything else is delivered through the cloud, leaving you with a single management console and a single SLA covering your email environment.
Without Mimecast vs With Mimecast
Radically simplified maintenance
Cloud-based services mean you buy services by the user. This eliminates the complexity of maintaining and running a huge amount of on-premise hardware – hardware that, typically, will be running far below optimum efficiency or providing unnecessary duplication of services.
Less work to support
Most email environments are an amalgamation of different systems for secure email, archiving email, and email uptime. Keeping everything running properly can be a complex and time-consuming task for support staff. Mimecast delivers email as it should be: a simple, seamless, reliable service.
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Fewer systems, easier to manage
IT as a business enabler
Managing the complexity of an email system – simply ‘keeping the lights on’ – sucks up IT resources and reduces your ability to focus on projects that really add to your bottom line. That’s why cloud computing is increasingly seen as a key way of IT becoming a business enabler, rather than a support service.
Simpler procurement
Moving to the cloud allows you to step off the treadmill of endless hardware refreshes, software upgrades, procurement processes and overlapping vendor lifecycles. Just as Mimecast reduces complexity for frontline staff, it also reduces it for senior staff – cutting the amount of time you need to commit to research, meeting vendors and exploring project options. Instead, you can keep IT aligned to your strategy and make the most of available technologies.
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