Binary Tree and Mimecast in Partnership

Binary Tree, provider of software solutions for
migrating to Microsoft Exchange and Office 365, has formed a
long-term strategic partnership with Mimecast,
supplier of cloud-based email archiving, continuity and security for  Exchange and Office 365.

Under the agreement, the two companies will deliver a unified solution
for enabling legacy Exchange customers to manage and automate the
migration of their email data to a new Exchange platform and to
Mimecast’s cloud-based archive.
 
Mimecast’s Great Email Migration Report, which surveyed 500 IT/email
system decision makers on their plans for email migration, found over
half (57%) of companies planned to make their migration in the next
year, with 62% of these companies planning to move to Exchange 2010
on-premise. Additionally, the average mid-sized business plans to
migrate over 100GB of data from one email system to another. These
migrations will see approximately 6.36PB – the
equivalent of 127.2 million four-drawer filing cabinets of text –
transported from one location to another in the next 12-18 months.
 
The partnership will integrate the two
companies’ existing solutions to help businesses simplify the transition
from older versions of Exchange to newer on-premise, cloud or hybrid
environments. Additionally, this unified solution will ensure all email
data is migrated securely and with minimal risk and downtime. The two
organisations will also encourage channel pull-through by offering
existing partners a migration readiness kit, as well as conducting joint
recruitment events around the world to support Microsoft’s mission to
migrate customers to the latest versions of Exchange and Office 365.
 
"Our products and solutions are so complementary that it was an obvious
value proposition to bundle them for customers," stated Steven Pivnik,
CEO of Binary Tree. "The tremendous uptake we are seeing in the market
for migrating to the latest version of the Microsoft messaging platform
cannot be ignored. And that includes moving to the cloud-based versions
like Office 365. Most customers we’ve talked to who are moving to
Exchange 2010, both on-premise, or in the cloud, are inquiring about
archiving and security, so partnering with a best of breed provider like
Mimecast makes perfect sense to meet these market needs."
 
Peter Bauer, Mimecast’s CEO, added: "With more than 80% of Exchange
customers still running on legacy 2003 and 2007 systems, the question is
not if, but when they will migrate to Microsoft’s latest email
platforms. The only real mitigating factor in play is fear; fear of data
loss, fear of downtime, fear of the cost and headache of moving data
from one system to another. Almost every customer Mimecast has
on-boarded in the last six months has involved a migration, either to
Exchange 2010 or Office 365, so businesses are already seeing us as an
insurance policy through the migration process and an ideal companion to
the Exchange platform, on-premise or in the cloud. By partnering with
Binary Tree, both organisations can offer a seamless, end-to-end
migration experience that truly does take fear out of the equation."
 
Mimecast and Binary Tree showed their joint solutions in the Mimecast
booth, and in a vendor session titled Think EaaSy – Make Exchange
Migrations EaaSy, atDevConnections, from 26th to 29th March, in Las
Vegas.