Basic Energy Services has two datacenters, with its primary datacenter located in Midland, Texas, and a recent secondary colocated datacenter with Verizon in Irving, Texas. The company has about 125 remote office locations that are spread across the country and are connected by Verizon-managed multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) network. Each of these remote office locations can have anywhere from 4 to 100 employees working in them, and email is the primary mode of communication across these locations.

The company has approximately 100 servers that are predominantly Windows based. Less than 10% of the server infrastructure is virtualized today; however, the company is actively engaged in a server virtualization and consolidation project. An SAP ERP system is used as the primary back-office application that supports functions such as finance, accounting, fleet management, and supply chain management. All of the company's data is backed up offsite to a cloud-based recovery service.

Below are some of the challenges that Basic's IT organizations faced, which influenced their evaluation criteria, and ultimately, the choice of the Mimecast solution:

• Avoid business disruptions
• Need for email continuity with zero downtime
• Data and storage growth
• Slow search and retrieval

This case study explains how Basic was looking for a solution which could give it email continuity, the ability to respond to eDiscovery requests, and more efficiently search for information within its email stores. Basic needed to achieve these business objectives while also addressing the storage, data growth, and infrastructure costs with its primary Exchange environment.

Read on to learn more about how Basic Energy Services deployed the Mimecast solution and how Mimecast's secure gateway also provided antivirus and antispam protection, which satisfied the Basic's goal of having a single solution for both email archiving and security.