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Cloud Archive

byMimecast
in Digital Communications Governance and Archiving Solutions
4.5

Overview

Product Information on Cloud Archive

Updated 8th January 2024

What is Cloud Archive?

Mimecast Cloud Archive provides self-service, intuitive tools that empower your team to collect, discover, preserve, and review all types of collaboration data. Meet your growing information management challenges, including adherence to data retention requirements to support legal discovery and regulatory compliance. - Archive data is stored in triplicate across multiple geographically-diverse datacenters for optimum resilience - Secure and tamper-resistant email and metadata retention provide peace of mind - Employees can rapidly search their personal archives from virtually anywhere via desktop and mobile apps along with mailbox management and folder structure replication - Granular litigation hold, near real-time e-discovery search and reporting strengthen compliance - Rapid eDiscovery search and case management tools empower administrators to more easily identify critical data and perform early case assessments - Data can also be rapidly ingested to consolidate legacy archives

Cloud Archive Pricing

Mimecast Cloud Archive is licensed per active user.

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Overall experience with Cloud Archive

IT SUPPORT SPECIALIST
250M - 500M USD, Miscellaneous
FAVORABLE

“Mimecast Cloud Archive - A Great Data Archiving Solution For Business ”

5.0
Jan 5, 2026
Mimecast Cloud Archive makes it easy to consolidate email, files, and Microsoft Teams data into a single, secure, and scalable cloud storage. It ensures easy access to data, compliance, and data retention, all of which are critical for our business. In addition, it ensures easy e-discovery and it also reduces our IT overhead costs while also saving us costs related to on-premise hardware as it is a cloud solution.
System Administrator
500M - 1B USD, Services (non-Government)
CRITICAL

“Balancing Easy Email Management and SPAM Policy Enforcement in Mimecast”

3.0
Oct 16, 2024
Mimecast support is generally very responsive, I've only had 1 out of many cases in which I had to escalate to our account manager

About Company

Company Description

Updated 25th July 2024

Since 2003, Mimecast has stopped bad things from happening to good organizations by enabling them to work protected. We empower over 40,000 customers to mitigate risk and manage complexities across a threat landscape driven by malicious cyberattacks, human error, and technology fallibility. Our advanced solutions provide proactive threat detection, brand protection, awareness training, and data retention capabilities evolving workplaces need today. Mimecast transforms email and collaboration security into the eyes and ears of organizations worldwide.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Private
Year Founded
2003
Head office location
Broadgate, United Kingdom
Number of employees
1001 - 5000
Website
https://www.mimecast.com/

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Cloud Archive Likes & Dislikes

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I like the security features of Mimecast Cloud Archive. Scaling and customizing this cloud storage solution is always easy. It makes archiving our business data easy and e-discovery is easy too. The tool helps us remain compliant while also saving us resources as it is a cloud solution.

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It enables easy email archive access, it allows litigation holds, and allows easy management for e-discovery

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Affordable pricing of the software and general compliance. I like the reliability of the software in access control. The software has great data encryption capabilities and 24/7 support services. Ability to integrate with other tools and effectiveness in backup and compliance management. Ease of deployment and implementation.

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So far no bad experiences. Mimecast Cloud Archive has delivered.

Dislike

The web interface is sometimes very slow, the explanations for rejected messages could contain additional info, and sometimes the policy enforcement for SPAM is too 1098strong.

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I have nothing against Cloud Archive Software, it has met all our needs.

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4.5

(155 Ratings)

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  • IT SUPPORT SPECIALIST
    50M-1B USD
    Miscellaneous
    Review Source

    Mimecast Cloud Archive - A Great Data Archiving Solution For Business

    5.0
    Jan 5, 2026
    Mimecast Cloud Archive makes it easy to consolidate email, files, and Microsoft Teams data into a single, secure, and scalable cloud storage. It ensures easy access to data, compliance, and data retention, all of which are critical for our business. In addition, it ensures easy e-discovery and it also reduces our IT overhead costs while also saving us costs related to on-premise hardware as it is a cloud solution.
  • Customer Relations Manager
    50M-1B USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    Cloud Archive Supports Unlimited Email Archiving and Flexible Backup Management Features

    4.0
    Feb 8, 2026
    Cloud Archive is a great tool for archiving. The software helps us to easily retrieve archived emails and has unlimited archiving capabilities. It is well suited for backup management and can be easily tailored to meet specific user needs. The product also allows document tracking and indexing.
  • IT Associate
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Advanced Search Capabilities and Email Storage Details

    4.0
    Apr 14, 2025
    admin can perform advanced searches and emails are stored on configured retention
  • Accountant
    50M-1B USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    Best Tool For Business Data Archiving

    5.0
    Feb 9, 2025
    Data Archiving is critical to our business and Mimecast Archive has been our go to solution. It is very secure, and ensures fast access to archived data thanks to ease of searching.
  • Marketing Manager
    50M-1B USD
    Miscellaneous
    Review Source

    Easy And Secure Business Data Archiving

    5.0
    Jan 11, 2025
    Archive helps our business manage, organize and archive our data securely. In addition, searching, discovering and sharing data is easy.
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