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Video Transcript below:
A single cloud platform gives us many benefits, especially when it comes to archiving. When you think about data and what its used cases are, things like backup come into that, the use of data for analytics, and obviously the use of data for eDiscovery and legal whole purposes. Those should be a single store. So, store the data once, then use those extensions to gain access to their data, so it becomes a multipurpose store, and our platform gives us an advantage because its structured exactly for that purpose. So, we don’t have to create different environments for data. A single environment, with multiple use cases, makes everything simpler, and means that it’s much more cost effective to the customer.
So, Mimecast started out with the concept of a platform. That platform is essentially a microservices arrangement of storage, components, interaction components, API components, visual display components, that sort if stuff. And those we term mime-os, that’s our collective name for our microservices environment that covers our security and our archiving capability, where that is beneficial, competitively, and technically is that its built for the cloud. So, it really got the scaling components inside it. We really know how to deal with the absorption of many many thousands of customers data in real time and the multipurpose access points, and use cases that address with that design. Our real advantage is that we started in the cloud, so we have the benefit of all the scaling ability that you get from many thousands of devices, answering you question in more or less real time, storing the absorption of data from thousands of companies in real time. That sort of scale doesn’t come in any other form other that your own platform in the cloud.
So, Mimecast has no limits on how long you can store data with us, our customers tell us how long they want us to store their data, some of those companies have regulations that require them to store it for a fixed period, but in general the most common is cases is that customers store it perpetually. So that is for as long as they are customers of ours we will store their data, if they ever leave, of course we will give it all back to them. We also have customers ha have very complex storage requirements. So, they may have some data that they may want to keep perpetually or some data that they delete immediately. So, we have the sophistication and controls to assist them in the configuration of their archives, so that they can achieve that.
We deal with the triple threats, so we think of them as technological failure, human error or malicious intent. Those are the three things that can affect data. A lot of people focus very much on the technical you know side of that, which is if your storing data in a third-party environment. That data is subject to how safe the environment is, is the code right, is there a bug in the code that could damage the data, and that’s really the only thing that the vendor can manage. When it comes to human error, and malicious intent, these are things that are outside of the scope of just the technical environment the data resides in. So, all three of those things can have an impact on your data. We don’t necessarily distinguish between each, because the recovery is all the same, but what we’re trying to provide is an environment where you can recover your data for one or many people, or the entire system as required under the circumstances where event such as that occurs. Whether its human error, technological error, malicious intent.
You need third party environments, we used to think of those as backups, but this is different, this is cloud land, so in cloud land a backup is actually a synchronized stream of information that’s being copied to a third-party environment, and recovery is that third party environment reconstituting the data back into a sass environment. This is a whole new world. Sync and recover plays a very important role in ransomware. So, we think of ransomware as, it’s any extortion based attack on data really. But part of our work at Mimecast is to prevent ransom ware from entering an organization, but we don’t cover all the area of ingress, so in some cases you make it effective throughout the means, and if that happens you really need to be in a position where you’re not paying the ransom. Where you have a good ability to put the data back as it was, and the only real way to do that is to have a third party putting the data back where it was immutable. So, we’ll even replicate the way it’s changing in real time.
