IBM vs Mimecast

International Business Machines Corporation is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation, with headquarters in Armonk, New York. IBM manufactures and markets computer hardware, middleware and software, and offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. The company originated in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company through a merger of the Tabulating Machine Company, the International Time Recording Company, and the Computing Scale Company.

Mimecast is a software as a service company specialising in unified email management and Email filtering. Mimecast was founded in 2003 by Peter Bauer and Neil Murray. It is headquartered in London and maintains offices in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Melbourne, Austin, Dallas, Chicago, San Francisco and Boston. In January, 2010, the company raised $21 million in Series B financing from Index Ventures and Dawn Capital.