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Requirement
A leading UK construction firm using Mimecast to archive and search email was seeking a more cost effective solution. The Barracuda Archive platform was selected as the preferred replacement for ongoing email retention and searching.
The Mimecast environment contained 6TB of historical email data that needed to be retained for compliance purposes within the new Barracuda platform.
TrueSwift was engaged to export the data from Mimecast and import it into the Barracuda Archive tenancy in a secure, efficient and cost effective manner. Upon completion, the legacy Mimecast solution was no longer required, significantly reducing annual running costs.
Key Challenges
Bulk extraction of data from Mimecast is not a standard feature built into the Mimecast platform. For a fee, Mimecast offers to perform a mass data extraction but this can be prohibitively expensive.
Once extracted, the data can’t be natively ingested into a new target platform without an element of post extraction data processing. Ingestion then needs to be fast and efficient.
The construction firm had a limited period before the Mimecast subscription expired and all data had to be exported by that date. They required a service that did not rely on access to any internal resources, either personnel or infrastructure.
The Solution
The use of the TrueSwift Migration Factory™ (TMF) solution was contracted to address all the firm's needs.
In addition to professional services and specialist migration tools, the TMF solution included the required infrastructure to deliver the project, including network servers and storage to extract, process and transfer the data into the target Barracuda Archive tenancy.
As all the infrastructure requirements were provided by TrueSwift, the lead time for engagement was just 24 hours and extractions from Mimecast were started within 48 hours.
The fully hosted, fully managed solution facilitated the swift and efficient extraction of data from the Mimecast platform to the client's Barracuda Archive environment.
About The Engagement
Once initiated, the extraction was scheduled to run 24/7. Network bandwidth and data storage was configured to optimise this phase of the project.
Once extracted, the TrueSwift ArchiveX tool processed the data and stored it in a format optimised for fast ingestion into the Barracuda environment.
The migration was also managed 24/7 to ensure the quickest throughput and reduced project timeframe. Throughout the engagement, weekly calls were held to keep the customer up to date with progress and to discuss any issues (including migration failures). Weekly reports were also generated, providing detailed insight into performance and other throughput metrics.
