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Are you weighing up a move to Mimecast, or looking for an alternative to Mimecast? Here’s how our email archiving solution compares with theirs.

Are you weighing up a move to Mimecast, or looking for an alternative to Mimecast? Here’s how our email archiving solution compares with theirs.

While Mimecast is an excellent product, it’s not for everyone. You may find Cryoserver’s features and benefits better suit your business’s needs.

As a specialist in email archiving, Cryoserver has developed a best-of-breed solution - one that provides you with:

An evidential email repository
A forensic, tamper-evident archive, giving you maximum control of sensitive data with role-based access and audit trails (our customers rave about these)
A stringent review process for SAR and FOI requests
More ways to find what you’re looking for, including a facility that enables searches based on spelling mistakes (words that look or sound similar)

We offer you advantages over Mimecast in these particular areas:

Pricing - Cryoserver is considerably less expensive, especially when you compare our fees for exporting data to Mimecast’s.
Speed of search and retrieval - an average search query time of only 2.3 seconds (through 5 years’ of emails) versus Mimecast’s 7 seconds.
Deployment - Cryoserver is more flexible, offering you on-premise and cloud options.
Support - read some typical Cryoserver customer feedback.

Now, we’ll compare our products in detail.

	Mimecast Email Archiving	Cryoserver Email Archiving
What it is?	This is an email archiving solution designed for long-term data storage. Three tamper-proof encrypted copies protect your content from data loss.	A best-of-breed email archiving solution. Independent of your mail server, it stores a copy of all emails sent and received in a tamper-evident archive. It turns this data into a useful repository for everyday use.
Speed	❌ 7 Seconds	✅ 2-3 Seconds
Pricing	❌ Expensive	✅ Low/Moderate
Deployment	✅ Cloud ✅ SaaS ✅ Web ❌ On-Premise ❌ Mobile Apps ❌ Desktop Apps	✅ Cloud ✅ SaaS ✅ Web ✅ On-Premise ✅ Mobile Apps ✅ Desktop Apps
Training	✅ In Person ✅ Webinars ✅ Documentation ❌ Live Chat	✅ In Person ✅ Webinars ✅ Documentation ✅ Live Chat