The Boston Celtics are more than a basketball team - they are an institution. The team flies more title banners from its rafters than any other NBA franchise, and boasts 17 NBA championships. The Celtics franchise operates as a large enterprise with large company visibility, revenues, and IT expectations, but with a relatively small front-office staff. Technology plays a key role in keeping operations running smoothly.

The once reliable email management system that had been used for years before on Exchange 2003 began to show its age as traffic increased and the infrastructure grew more complex, causing hang-ups and email downtime in the front office.

Mimecast provides the only end-to-end solution for unified email management in the cloud - a fully SaaS based solution that covers archiving, discovery, business continuity, security and policy management. More than 2,000 companies around the world have replaced multiple, on-premise point solutions with Mimecast subscriptions in order to significantly reduce the risk, complexity and overall cost of email management.

This case study documents how the Celtics IT administration team, led by Jay Wessel, performed the cutover to Mimecast without a hitch for its entire front office staff.