Savage Co needed its Proofpoint email archive in Mimecast. The archive held 176 million emails and 40TB of uncompressed data. The engagement ran through 2025 and 2026, across a business with more than 4,000 people and over 200 locations.
Savage did not need another project sitting on its IT team. The Possibility Partnership ran the migration with eMXport. There was no software for Savage to install, and no migration servers for its team to deploy or maintain. Savage’s IT and leadership teams joined regular progress meetings. We got on with the work.
The size of the job
Founded in 1946, Savage provides transportation, logistics, materials handling and industrial services around the world. Moving the archive was not a spring clean.
Every part of that data had to move safely, with chain of custody maintained throughout. Volume on that scale is a responsibility, not just a number.
What Savage actually had to do
Savage handed over access and stayed informed. It did not operate the migration platform.
Using eMXport, we managed the Proofpoint to Mimecast route: the architecture, the jobs, the exceptions and the reporting. For Savage, the six months were refreshingly uneventful. For us, they were the work.
What was handed back
About six months later, the archive was in Mimecast. All 176 million emails and 40TB of uncompressed data had been through the migration. Day-to-day operations carried on without disruption.
The published result was an error rate of 0.01218%. Savage also received a chain-of-custody certificate and summary reports of what had been migrated. The team did not have to take our word for it. They had the paperwork.
The Possibility Partnership made a lengthy and time-consuming process feel seamless. We handed off access, stayed informed with regular check-ins, and they delivered everything we needed at the end – no burden on our team, no disruption to operations, and a complete chain of custody throughout. We were very satisfied and would partner with them again if the need arises.
Julie Phillips, Director of Systems Administration, Savage Co
If you are leaving Proofpoint for Mimecast, the useful question is the same one Savage answered: who runs the migration, and what evidence comes back at the end.