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Requirement
A UK railway organisation needed an alternative solution to Mimecast to cost effectively archive and search 12TB of email data for compliance enforcement. Proofpoint was selected as the preferred replacement for ongoing email retention and search.
TrueSwift was engaged to export the data from Mimecast and prepare the data for import into the Proofpoint archive tenancy, in a secure, efficient and cost-effective manner. Upon completion, the legacy Mimecast solution was no longer required as all historical and ongoing email content was secured and accessible in the Proofpoint platform.
Key Challenges
Bulk extraction of data from Mimecast is not a standard, built-in feature. For a fee, Mimecast offers to perform a mass data extraction, but this can be prohibitively expensive and is rarely possible at short notice.
Once extracted, the data can’t be natively ingested into a new target platform without an element of post extraction data processing.
Our customer 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 securely transfer the data to Proofpoint for ingestion.
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 Mimecast before presenting to Proofpoint for ingestion.
TrueSwift's close working relationship with the Proofpoint technical team ensured a seamless migration.
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 Proofpoint 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.
