What is archive storage?
Archive storage is a single, unified cloud storage solution that simplifies data retention and speeds search and retrieval of email, attachments, and other mission-critical data.
Why do we need archive storage solutions?
- Protect valuable intellectual property with a purpose-built, highly secure and trusted cloud platform.
- Ensure availability with a 100% service availability SLA and guaranteed data storage region.
- Improve the experience of your users with rapid search and content retrieval through a variety of desktop and mobile apps.
Simplify data retention with cloud archive storage
The amount of data your organization must manage and retain is growing rapidly, but cloud archive storage solutions from Mimecast can help to reduce the cost and complexity of managing business-critical information.
Your data and email archives are a highly valuable asset and a primary record of business communication. When this information is easily available, leadership can make more informed decisions, employees are more productive and administrators can streamline their response to compliance, e-discovery and litigation requirements.
Cloud archive storage from Mimecast provides a secure and perpetual storage and policy management solution that scales easily as your data volumes grow. Mimecast cloud archive storage makes it easy for administrators and employees to find information in their email archives and file storage whenever they need. And as a cloud archiving solution, Mimecast eliminates the need for the expensive hardware and software of an on-premises solution.
How do I choose the best cloud archive storage solution for my business?
- Evaluate organizations and pick a service provider with sufficient volume and experience
- Ensure the provider meets the cloud storage, backup, and recover needs of your organization
- Don’t compromise on security – your provider should be known for their cybersecurity capabilities
- Verify your providers uptime track record – they should be among the best in their industry
- Verify where and how your organization’s data will be stored
- Ensure your provider offers integrations that work for your organization
Benefits of Mimecast's archive storage solutions
With Mimecast archive storage solutions you can:
- Protect valuable intellectual property with a purpose-built, highly secure and trusted cloud platform.
- Ensure availability with a 100% service availability SLA and guaranteed data storage region.
- Improve the experience of your users with rapid search and content retrieval through a variety of desktop and mobile apps.
- Reduce the cost and complexity of archive storage solutions by relying on a single cloud platform.
- Support comprehensive compliance, e-discovery and litigation needs.
Long-term cloud archive storage from Mimecast
Mimecast Enterprise Information Archiving provides a single, unified cloud archive storage solution that simplifies data retention and speeds search and retrieval of email, attachments and MS Teams conversations. This cloud email archiving solution offers powerful search capabilities for employees and automated tools for administrators that simplify management of mailboxes, e-discovery and litigation support.
Mimecast's cloud email solution keeps multiple copies of every inbound, outbound and internal email, along with detailed meta-data and a copy of the email if it was changed by policy enforcement. Emails are encrypted for email security and stored in multiple geographically-dispersed data centers with triplicate copies for redundancy.
Additionally, Mimecast cloud archive storage provides:
- Rapid search and retrieval of archived emails.
- Access to personal cloud archive storage on any device, from any location.
- Pricing based on the number of employees rather than the volume of email, helping lower TCO.
- Flexible policy-driven retention at the organization, group, mailbox or published retention folder level.
- Complete archive access logging.
- Comprehensive compliance, e-discovery and litigation support, including legal hold, case management and data export.
