Case Study: Gearhouse Group achieves 45,000-email/day spam reduction and always-on email with Mimecast

Mimecast Unified Email Management reduces spam by more than 45,000 emails a day

Gearhouse, a South African events, staging and production services provider with headquarters in Johannesburg and about 250 email users across multiple offices and temporary sites, needed fast, reliable communications and airtight message archiving to support time‑critical productions. The company sought a SaaS partner to deliver email continuity, secure archive and strong hygiene across multiple domains while cutting IT administration and avoiding costly false positives.

Mimecast’s Unified Email Management delivered bottomless cloud archiving, continuity, attachment‑linking, smart folders and non‑content‑based spam filtering. In the first month Mimecast rejected an average of 45,000 illegitimate emails per day—leaving roughly 2,500 inbound messages to onsite servers—saving storage and bandwidth, improving message retrieval and compliance, and reducing IT email management from about an hour a day to an hour a week.

Gearhouse Group

Lourens Steyn

Head of IT Department