Smartsheet Goes Pure Cloud with Mimecast www.mimecast.com | ©2020 Mimecast | All Rights Reserved |US-2583 1 Case Study Challenge When Mark Peterson joined Smartsheet as VP of IT, Real Estate and Facilities, three years ago, he immediately noticed something strange. Smartsheet sells a cloud platform, but, ironically, the company had bought several hardware appliances for deploying on-premise email security. “I was not in favor of taking on the cost and management overhead of hosting our own hardware, so we put an end to that project,” Peterson says. The fast-growing company was evolving from its roots as a SaaS project-management and collaboration tool, to becoming the modern cloud “enterprise platform for dynamic work.” It also was headed toward a 2018 IPO - which would i

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