Mimecast launches Mid-East operations

The UK-based Software as a Service (SAAS) company is setting up a free zone office in Dubai, as its market entry strategy into the burgeoning UAE market. Mimecast is also participating at Gitex 2008 as part of its strategy to target the wider Middle East region.

Mimecast Services, which was founded in 2002 is the world's largest online archiver and provides email continuity and security via an online email management platform. The organisation, which has recorded a 300% year on year growth, now has its operations in North America, Europe, South Africa and Offshore.

Commenting on Mimecast's announcement to set up its presence in Middle East, Naqui Mirza, Regional Director, Mimecast Middle East, said:

"We are extremely excited to launch our operations in the Middle East region, where we will operate with a channel focused expansion strategy to emerge as a leading provider in the region's email management space."

He further added, "Mimecast offers organizations a globally scalable email solution with tremendous control and granularity at a local level driving cost and infrastructure efficiencies in the process."

Mimecast's sophisticated Unified Email Management technology tightly integrates with Microsoft Exchange, Outlook and Windows Mobile. The technology can be deployed in a day and offers a sub-second search to locate individual mails in up to 10years of archived corporate mail.

Every day Mimecast takes care of millions of emails and documents for thousands of companies around the world. This technology extends across all vertical markets, from finance to football clubs, professional services to retail outlets, 40% of the top UK law firms have adopted Mimecast in the last 12 months.

Mimecast offers a service that removes the growing risks and complexities of corporate email management and transforms it into a robust business tool. The service provides email archiving, security, continuity, search and data leak prevention delivered on a Software-as-a-Service model. This is all based on a single platform developed by Mimecast which is massively scalable and provides true multi-tenant support for customers.