Premier League Football club Bolton Wanderers has
upgraded to aweb-based e-mail management systemto
halve administration time, ensure business continuity, and improve
security.
"Since moving to the web-based service from Mimecast, viruses
and spam are blocked at source and, therefore, do not waste
valuable disk space and bandwidth," said Dave Atkinson, IT manager
for Bolton Wanderers.
"A key attraction for the web-based service was that e-mails are
stored on triple-redundant servers at geographically remote
locations and offer a continuous service even if there is a server
outage," he said.
The move to the software-as-a-service model is part of an
upgrade of the club's local area network to an IP-centric
environment.
Bolton Wanderers has also opted for
Mimecast's archival service to provide an audit trail that
could be used in court to defend the club's reputation should the
need arise.
"The club wanted to be able to provide evidence of all
electronic communications between players, agents and the club,"
said Atkinson.
An expected benefit of the system, he said, was that it enabled
the corporate hospitality and marketing departments to send
targeted, branded e-mails and measure response rates.