Case Study: Mohawk Industries achieves rapid e-discovery and reduced storage costs with Mimecast

Mohawk Industries uses Mimecast to simplify email archival/retrieval, ensure effective AS/AV strategy

Mohawk Industries, a global flooring manufacturer with over 12,000 email users and a small IT team, faced growing email-management pain: an aging on‑premises IBM archiving platform, no retention policies or mailbox quotas, huge NSF/PST files (some 50 GB), weekly backups that took seven days and reached 10 TB, and slow, manual litigation‑hold searches that tied up staff.

Mohawk moved to Mimecast’s cloud email security and archiving in a staged rollout, integrating with Office 365. The SaaS solution centralized archiving and AS/AV, sped legal searches from days to under an hour, cut local storage requirements by more than 25%, eliminated backup needs, blocked roughly 70% of incoming spam before it hit the network, simplified upgrades, and allowed the company to retire servers while scaling the service across its user base.

Mohawk Industries

Colby Grueber

Infrastructure Director