Organisations have been migrating from Mimecast to reduce costs, achieve seamless integration with existing platforms (especially Microsoft 365) and centralise security. A more streamlined, cost-effective, and holistic approach to email security, archiving and compliance can be achieved within their existing cloud infrastructure.

An analysis of our overall client base (completed projects or in the pipeline) and the revenue represented demonstrates the ongoing trend of a year-on-year increase. Specifically, there has been 200% growth in the

PST files are still causing serious security, productivity, and compliance challenges for organisations, with the risks of near impossible eDiscovery procedures leading to hefty fines.

By eliminating PSTs for good, data security, enhanced user productivity and effective eDiscovery is possible. Compliance risks are mitigated, and IT workload and costs significantly reduced.

Enormous Search Costs

If data is held in PST files, it’s essentially off the grid, not searchable by centralised IT, and can easily be

 Public Folders in Microsoft Exchange enable email and documents to be shared between multiple people.

Organisations that are transforming their underlying email platform, by migrating from Exchange to Office 365 for example, need to migrate the contents of Public Folders (PF) to new targets including SharePoint. Each project has its unique technical challenges as PF usage varies by customer.  Business processes that may work well in PFs don’t necessarily translate easily to Shared Mailboxes, Office

This blog series explains some of the specific aspects that make migrations very complex. 

We start with chain of custody: what is it and why is it so important in data migrations? 

A chain of custody is the complete, documented, chronological history of the possession and handling of a record throughout its lifetime - from creation to destruction and it needs conscientious handling. Proper chain of custody registers through whose hands the information has passed

In 2019, I wrote a blog asking the question whether Enterprise Vault (EV) had a future. Well, Veritas believes so as they have continued to develop the product and have released version 14

(no version 13 for the superstitious out there!) as of 16^th November 2020. 

In my previous article, (https://www.trueswift.co.uk/resources/blog/futureev) I described migration trends and why an organisation may require an archive, but also why EV still has a role to play.