Mimecast Updates Cloud Service Offering

Mimecast
Services
Ltd.
has revamped its cloud archiving capabilities, with end users now
able to access their archive from their email client or mobile
device.

It has also introduced file archiving, and provides users with
the ability to search their archived documents from within Outlook,
Mimecast Personal Portal, or iPad. The company’s iPad app,
Mimefiles, displays all of a user’s documents stored in email, as
well as Box, Dropbox, SharePoint, network shares and home drives.

Mimecast has also added integration between SharePoint and email,
with users able to search their email archive from within SharePoint,
or their SharePoint documents from Outlook.

"The archive is now so much more than just a dusty data
store," comments Grant Hodgkinson, product director, Unified
Email Management, at Mimecast. "We see it as a highly
available, highly secure, but most of all incredibly useful source of
information for IT professionals and their end users. And not just
for occasional eDiscovery cases but for day to day interactions. The
Mimecast archive can now store more than just email, but perhaps more
importantly we’re providing users with the tools to be able to find
what they need, quickly, in ways that suit their personal
preferences, whether they are iPad users or Outlook junkies. In
short, archiving is not just about what goes in; it’s how useful it
is when it comes out."

Elements of the announcement:

• Mimecast File Archive provides a solution for archiving files
  from SharePoint, Box, Dropbox, network shares and home drives, with a
  single point of eDiscovery and management that supports regulatory
  compliance needs.

• Mimecast Services for Outlook Version 4 gives users access to
  their archive history from within Outlook. Users can browse their
  email folders or use the archive search feature, which enables
  quicker decision-making and enhance responsiveness. They can also
  drag and drop emails to their inbox when browsing, or view, reply and
  forward messages returned by the archive search.

• Mimecast Services for SharePoint is designed to allow users to
  search their email archive from within SharePoint.

• Mimecast Personal Portal is a web mail portal that allows
  users to search emails and files in their personal archive, manage
  their permit/block lists and continue to send and receive email in
  the event of a mail server outage.

• Mimefiles, which will be available from the Apple AppStore in
  November, is an iPad app that provides users with a unified view of
  all their files from Box, Dropbox, SharePoint, network file shares
  and email attachments. Users can also view the audit trail associated
  with each file – who emailed whom and when – and can preview the
  email that the file was associated with.