Mimecast, the leading supplier of cloud-based e-mail archiving, security and continuity for Microsoft Exchange, Hosted Exchange and Office 365, has revamped its cloud archiving capabilities, with end-users now able to access their personal archives from their chosen e-mail client or mobile device. Mimecast has also introduced file archiving, and now provides users with the ability to search their archived documents from within Outlook, Mimecast Personal Portal (Web) or iPad. The company's new iPad app, Mimefiles, displays all of a user's documents stored in e-mail, as well as Box, Dropbox, SharePoint, network shares and home drives (My Documents).
Mimecast has also added tight integration between SharePoint and e-mail, with users able to search their e-mail 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 E-mail 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 e-mail, 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."
The key elements of today's announcement are:
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 full access to their entire archive history from within Outlook. Users can browse their historical e-mail folders or use the archive search feature, which enables quicker decision-making and transforms responsiveness. They can also drag and drop e-mails to their inboxes 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 e-mail archives from within SharePoint.
Mimecast Personal Portal is a Web mail portal that allows users to search e-mails and files in their personal archives, manage their permit/block lists, and continue to send and receive e-mail in the event of a mail server outage.
Mimefiles, which will be available from the Apple AppStore in November, is a custom-built iPad app that provides users with a unified view of all their files from Box, Dropbox, SharePoint, network file shares and e-mail attachments. Users can also view the audit trail associated with each file - who e-mailed whom and when - and can preview the e-mail that the file was associated with.
More information on Mimecast's File Archiving solution is available here.
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