Case Study: Virgin Active achieves 100% email uptime and near-elimination of spam with Mimecast

SA’s gym partner Virgin Active meets its best IT Partner yet in Mimecast

Virgin Active South Africa, part of the international Virgin Active health-club group with over 100 gyms and several thousand email users, faced a complex mail challenge: migrate toward a Microsoft platform while retaining a decade-old Lotus Notes infrastructure, cure frequent outages, curb employees’ use of personal Gmail (a compliance and e-discovery risk), and reduce the heavy day-to-day admin burden required to keep mail running.

Mimecast delivered a tailored, cloud-based mail management solution that integrated with both Microsoft and Lotus Notes, providing security, continuity, archiving and e-discovery in user-specific profiles. Since deployment (Nov 2012) Virgin Active has seen 100% mail uptime, near-elimination of spam, simplified administration and richer visibility into email activity, allowing IT staff to focus on strategic projects and strengthening compliance and ROI.

Virgin Active

Andre Mostert

Head of IT Operations