Case Study: Boston Celtics achieves 5x faster email administration and 25% cost savings with Mimecast

Boston Celtics Reduce Complexity and Administrative Burden in Email Security Systems

The Boston Celtics, a high‑profile NBA franchise whose front office depends heavily on email for everyday operations and ticketing, faced increasing strain from an aging, complex on‑premises email stack built from multiple point solutions. That infrastructure created frequent reliability issues, lengthy troubleshooting, weekly service restarts, and limited archiving, discovery and disaster‑recovery capabilities—driving up administrative burden and risk.

The team moved email management to Mimecast’s unified SaaS platform for archiving, security, continuity and policy management, retiring multiple servers and on‑premise appliances. The cutover was smooth and since then the Celtics have run reliably with web‑based visibility, a 5x reduction in administrative time, about 25% lower operating costs, faster data retrieval, and greener IT through reduced hardware, power and cooling needs.

Boston Celtics

Jay Wessel

Vice President of Technology