Interview: MCAS Training and Certification

Starting in early February, we began offering all registered MailStore partners the opportunity to demonstrate their expertise with regard to MailStore Server through certification as a MailStore Certified Archiving Specialist. In a short interview, Rick Armitage of Medhurst IT tells us what led him and his colleagues to take part in the certification process.

Please briefly introduce your company.

Medhurst provides a wide variety of IT solutions tailored to small and medium sized business needs. We are infrastructure specialists and our products include hardware and software, virtualization, support, internet and cloud services, networking and security, mobile and VOIP phone solutions. We were founded in 2005 and there are 8 staff members in our Frodsham office.

How long have you been using MailStore Server?

Around 2 years now.

How did you learn about MCAS training and certification?

We initially took the qualification provided by Zen software who we buy MailStore from. They called up and told us that the qualification was now more official and offered by MailStore themselves.

Why did you carry out certification?

Mainly so that we can use the logo for publicity to help with sales but also simply down to personal pride.

How many of your employees are MailStore Certified Archiving Specialists?

Currently three

Did you use the MailStore study guide? If so, was it helpful?

All of us did use to the study guide to refresh any holes in our knowledge of the product. Pretty much all of our installations are Exchange server based so the use of a proxy is not something we come across too often. The guide is really useful to refer to on an ongoing basis.

To what extent has your technical background knowledge of MailStore improved after becoming certified?

We’ve all learned several new things, in some cases from each other, and in other cases from the study guide material. It has been a useful learning experience.

Are you currently a registered partner with an interest in becoming certified? Then please contact your distributor or our sales team via email.

MailStore at InfoSecurity Europe

MailStore Software Corp. is proud to announce participation at InfoSecurity Europe trade show, courtesy of UK distributor Zen Software Ltd. The No1 information security event in Europe will take place in London, Earls Court, 24th-26th April. Over 300 exhibitors from major names in the industry will be on-site.
Infosecurity Europe attracts media attendance from across Europe and UK and this year’s event will be covered in nearly 800 IT industry publications and National Press across UK and Europe.

Come along and visit us at stand K94, and to arrange a personal demonstration of the latest version of MailStore Server – the standard in email archiving – please contact Zen Software using sales@zensoftware.co.uk.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Exchange 2010 and Email Archiving

A few days ago James Steel form UK’s Zen Software blogged about 10 reasons to choose MailStore over Exchange 2010 archiving. To be honest finally he gave his readers 13 examples of differences between these two important opportunities to archive company emails. He did so to help people currently weighing up the various archiving options available. And to to avoid common misunderstandings as that there are no needs to use an external archiving solution – since Microsoft’s Exchange Server has a built-in feature with its latest versions.

Furthermore we want to recommend to visit Zen Software’s YouTube channel. They are always hard at work to provide their customers and all people interested with helpful tutorials – not at least about MailStore Server.