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Sunday 13 July 2014

What Does Mimecast Have to Offer?

Mimecast

We are proud to be a Mimecast partner and are taking this opportunity to tell you about the fantastic email security services we can offer our new and existing customers.

Mimecast offers three key services:
•             Email Security
•             Email Archiving
•             Email Continuity




Email Security
As the range of email threats has grown significantly over the years, systems for email security and encryption have become ever more complex. With users demanding ever higher levels of protection, along with expecting business enabling functionality, businesses are left spending significant amounts trying to secure email systems. Mimecast Email Security provides the most comprehensive, cloud-based email risk mitigation available in today’s market.

Mimecast Email Security protects against both inbound and outbound email-borne threats, including malware, spam, phishing, DHA & DDoS attacks, deliberate or accidental data leaks, outages and social engineering attacks.

Email Archiving
Email archiving is a critical requirement for every organisation, but it’s more than just email storage for record keeping and compliance. Mimecast Email Archiving cuts the cost and complexity of secure, accessible email archiving, giving users instant access to every email they’ve ever sent or received, while also giving you central control of email retention policies.

As much storage as you need, whenever you need it. No more email backups.

Mimecast’s cloud-based platform stores all your email, internal and external, in a highly secure and resilient archive, giving you as much space as you need. Data for all employees past and present is also retained, for your reference.  All this is charged by the number of users and offers a perpetual storage period, providing you with predictable storage costs. 

End User Benefits:
•             Bottomless mailboxes for end users
•             Personal email archive access from MS Outlook
•             'Drag and drop' between Outlook and Mimecast archive
•             Near real-time search
•             Familiar personal folder structures     
•             Personal email archive access through mobile devices.

Email Continuity
While email is now a critical from of business communication, its reliability does not always match its importance. Businesses can no longer afford email outage for any length of time, which is why Mimecast Email Continuity delivers always-on, seamless email availability through automatic service failover and failback in near real-time during an email outage. 

Mimecast Email Continuity is the only cloud based solution that steps in automatically to deliver email to end users during outages of your Microsoft email service, making it an essential part of your business continuity plan. It integrates seamlessly with Microsoft outlook, allowing you to continue using email safely and securely, whether the email outage is planned or not.

On top of giving users uninterrupted access to live email from Outlook during an outage, plus direct access to 58 days’ worth of archived email and up to 10 years when combined with Mimecast Email Archive. Also its flexible browser-based access through the Mimecast Personal Portal provides calendar information. All of this is managed from a single administration console, with no additional on premise hardware required. Therefore simplifying your network and reducing administration.



Unified Email Management (UEM)
Mimecast UEM simply amplifies the benefits of all three services mentioned above, by delivering them as a single, tightly integrated, cloud-based service. Thus, radically simplifying the complex world of email management, removing the need to deploy, integrate and manage multiple third party systems, leaving you with a high performance Exchange server to manage.

Mimecast UEM is offered in two packages; UEM Express and UEM Enterprise. UEM Express combines Mimecast’s Email Security and Email Continuity. While UEM Enterprise combines all three of the services mentioned above, in order to deliver maximum benefits to end users.

Mimecast UEM Enterprise
Mimecast’s UEM Enterprise is the only email management solution to offer fully unified email security, continuity and archiving services, building on the basis of the UEM Express service by adding powerful archiving to the combination.

As well as ensuring that both email availability and security are maintained during outages, UEM Enterprise also delivers tight integration between:
Security and continuity – ensuring that security and DLP policies are consistently enforced, even during outages.

Archiving and security – Providing context and help in the event of a security breach, while also being able to establish whether the data leak was accidental or malicious.

Continuity and archiving – ensuring that administrators and end-users enjoy uninterrupted access to the entire email archive, even on mobile devices (Android, Windows, iPhone and Blackberry), at all times even during an outage.



For more about Mimecast core services:

or to arrange a Mimecast live webinar, contact Andy Potts, our Business Development manager, by phone on 01723 587240 or by email at andy@practicalnetworks.co.uk

Friday 11 July 2014

Why Cloud Networking?


Cisco Meraki Cloud Networking


Meraki was set up with a goal to change the way in which we access the internet, leading them to become leaders in cloud controlled Wireless, Routing and Security. Unlike network products from other vendors, Meraki’s products are centrally managed through a cloud based portal, providing centralised management, visibility and control, all without the complexity and expense of on-premises controlled appliances or management software.


Why Cloud Networking?
The cloud increases IT efficiency and aids manageability and scalability, by offering easy installation and management, designed for immediate use. Cloud integration also keeps features up to date, reduces operational costs and is perfect for small and large scale wireless networks.



Cisco Meraki access points are able to offer faster connections, greater user capacity, more coverage and fewer support calls, as they are built from the highest grade components which are optimized carefully to create a seamless user experience. 

Key Features & Benefits:

  • Meraki APs are self-configuring for easy deployment
  • You can manage your Access Points from anywhere in the world
  • Monitor and control iOS (iPhones, iPads), Android devices, PCs and Macs using the free Meraki Systems Manager
  • Meraki offers a remote troubleshooting feature to reduce call outs and downtime
  • Seamless firmware and software upgrades
  • Built in support for BYOD - making it easier to securely support employees own devices and limit bandwidth for applications such as video and Facebook
  • Guest wireless access with Splash pages that can include billing through PayPal
  • Meraki supports the latest standards, such as 802.11N (up to 900Mbps) and the new fast 802.11AC (up to 1.75Gbps)

For more information and to qualify for a free Meraki AP, call us on: 01723 587240