Case Study: UST Global achieves secure, compliant mobility with Microsoft Exchange Online and Office 365

UST Global’s 17,000 employees are empowered with a secure productivity environment on Office 365

UST Global, a professional services company with 17,000 employees, faced significant challenges with its outdated on-premise Microsoft Exchange 2010 infrastructure. Their major hurdles included limited mailbox storage, an inability to meet compliance and legal hold requirements, a lack of a proper disaster recovery solution, and high costs for maintaining over 45 servers worldwide. These issues created productivity bottlenecks, compliance risks, and a substantial financial burden for their IT department.

Microsoft provided the solution by implementing its Exchange Online and Office 365 cloud services. This migration empowered UST Global's global workforce with 100 GB mailboxes, unlimited archive storage, and robust compliance tools like eDiscovery and Legal Hold. The results were substantial, including an estimated cost savings of $6.1 million, a drastic reduction in data retrieval time from months to minutes, and guaranteed 99.99% uptime. Microsoft's solution provided the security, mobility, and administrative simplicity the company required.

UST Global

Sunil Kanchi

CIO