Binary Tree, a provider of software solutions for migrating to Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Office 365, has formed a partnership with Mimecast to deliver a unified solution.

Mimecast's surveyed 500 IT/email system decision makers on their plans for email migration, and found over half (57%) of companies planned to make their migration in the next year, with 62% of these companies planning to move to Microsoft Exchange 2010 on-premise.

Additionally, the average mid-sized business plans to migrate over 100GB of data from one email system to another.  These migrations will see approximately 6.36 petabytes of data - the equivalent of 127.2 million four-drawer filing cabinets of text - transported from one location to another in the next 12-18 months.

Mimecast and Binary Tree will integrate their respective solutions to assist migration from older versions of Microsoft Exchange to newer on-premise, cloud or hybrid environments.

Steven Pivnik, CEO of Binary Tree, said, “Most customers we've talked to who are moving to Exchange 2010, both on-premise, or in the cloud, are inquiring about archiving and security, so partnering with a best of breed provider like Mimecast makes perfect sense to meet these market needs."