Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Mimosa Systems Signs 1,000th Customer for Mimosa NearPoint Next-Generation Archiving Solutions

Customers Across Government, Healthcare, Financial and Energy Speak Out on the Value of Mimosa for Enterprise Archiving, eDiscovery, and Storage Optimization of their Email, File and SharePoint Data

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Mimosa Systems, the leader in next-generation email archiving, file archiving and SharePoint archiving solutions, today announced the addition of its 1,000th customer for Mimosa NearPointTM, resulting in a 43 percent growth rate in customers for the year. This milestone marks the conclusion of a record-breaking year for Mimosa, as organizations across multiple vertical industries – including state and local government, healthcare, financial, and energy adopt NearPoint for its unified approach to efficient email, file and SharePoint content archiving, eDiscovery legal hold, compliance readiness and storage optimization.

“In 2009, IT buyers only invested in solutions with tangible and discernible benefits,” said Brian Babineau, senior analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. “Mimosa's expansion proves that organizations find tremendous value in archiving content for electronic discovery, compliance, and IT efficiency reasons. It also demonstrates that customers are able to achieve these goals with Mimosa's comprehensive portfolio and unique underlying technology architecture.”

Mimosa has rapidly emerged as the industry leader in next-generation content archiving solutions. With mounting volumes of email data and information growth, Mimosa addresses the key areas of eDiscovery, regulatory compliance and storage cost optimization with a comprehensive archiving platform that leap-frogs traditional offerings. Mimosa has matched its product innovation with exceptional company sales execution on a global scale that leverages a large channel ecosystem as a strategic extension to the company’s sales model.

Key milestones and industry recognition for Mimosa and Mimosa NearPoint announced during 2009:

• Named Michael Sheridan, former CFO of Facebook, as Mimosa’s Chief Financial Officer

• Raised $10 million in new financing in the second half of 2009, demonstrating strong support from its base of investors as it enters 2010

• Released the fourth major version of Mimosa NearPoint with new delegated case management and tagging capabilities to expedite eDiscovery and lower costs across email, file and SharePoint content

• Delivered new, industry-leading capture technologies for Microsoft Exchange including support for Volume Shadow-copy Service (VSS) and SMTP – an ideal approach to capture from cloud-based mailboxes such as those offered by Microsoft and Google

• Added support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and announced plans to leverage new Exchange Web Service API for eDiscovery search, and retention policy tags for content moving into the archive for long-term retention and disposition

• Delivered Mimosa NearPoint Microsoft Office SharePoint Server for archiving, recovery, and eDiscovery workflow across all types of SharePoint content including document libraries, lists, blogs, site and site collections

• Increased growth in the Dell channel across the federal, healthcare and retail verticals

• Developed innovative partner integrations that decrease the cost of storage including NetApp Snap Manager for Exchange, EMC Data Domain for advanced block-level deduplication for archived content

• Recruited more than 25 ISV development partners as part of the Mimosa Developer Network to leverage the open NearPoint Software Development Kit to accelerate migrations away from first-generation archive products, and build connectors to records management and eDiscovery applications

• Named 2009 Community Choice award winner by SQL Server Magazine

• Recognized by InfoWorld as a key archiving solution for recovery, long-term retention, and eDiscovery for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

• Selected as one of the Best Channel Products and as a Best Channel Vendor of 2009 by Business Solutions Magazine

• Positioned in the “Visionaries Quadrant” of Gartner’s 2009 Magic Quadrant for Email Active Archiving, and received a “Positive” rating in Gartner’s 2009 E-Discovery MarketScope

• Recognized as a TiE50 Award Winner for its leadership in innovation, ingenuity and management excellence

• Info Security Products Guide named Mimosa Systems Winner of the Tomorrow's Technology Today Award for Email Content Management

• Mimosa NearPoint received top marks in Redmond Magazine MVP product review

• Named finalist in the SearchStorage.com and Storage Magazine Storage Products of the Year Awards

Partners and Customers Speak Out on the Value of Mimosa NearPoint Integrated Archive
“Our customers are increasingly challenged with efficiently storing, protecting, and managing the ongoing business risks stemming from the tremendous quantity of email and file information created by today’s information workers,” said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Solutions Marketing for NetApp. “Together, NetApp and Mimosa have partnered to develop an integrated solution that helps our customers address these issues when archiving their vital information. Our joint solution enables IT managers to capture and retain all email, calendar, and file information, protect that information, recover it quickly, and store the information efficiently and cost-effectively while meeting or improving business service levels for information access, search, and eDiscovery.”

Customers throughout multiple market segments continue to praise Mimosa NearPoint for the value and efficiency it brings to their organizations. With rapid growth in state and local government, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, financial and energy, companies have quickly realized significant benefits from deploying Mimosa’s integrated content archiving solutions.

In July 2009, North Carolina State Governor Beverly Purdue signed an executive order directing ITS to obtain an email archive system “as soon as practicable” for its 41,000 email users. The state required an email archive and eDiscovery solution to quickly respond to litigation-related matters, investigations and comply with public records requests. “Preserving state emails as a public record is vital to a transparent and accountable government,” said Beverly Purdue North Carolina State Governor. “Ultimately, a more transparent government will bring about a better government.”

The Department of Technology and Information for the State of Delaware archives more than 18,000 email users in all offices and government agencies of the state. “As part of our self mandated state litigation retention policy, we are currently saving all emails for a one-year period,” said Douglas Lilly, lead telecom technologist, Department of Technology and Information for the State of Delaware. “While we had a backup solution already, it wasn't robust enough for our eDiscovery search and recovery needs. We needed a more proactive approach that could capture everything including calendar items, messages, tasks and item histories. After looking at all the large players, we selected Mimosa because it was the only unified solution for eDiscovery, storage optimization and disaster recovery.”

South Jersey Healthcare (SJH), a nonprofit, integrated healthcare system, with two regional hospitals, numerous community health centers, and a range of home health and specialty services, implemented Mimosa NearPoint as part of the organization’s comprehensive archiving strategy to comply with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations. “Before we implemented Mimosa NearPoint we faced very slow email mailbox restore times,” said Andrew Gahm, systems and security engineer, SJH. “MAPI backup processes were slowing us down and we had no features to perform needed searching, PST archiving, or eDiscovery. Additionally, NearPoint cuts out many of the time consuming steps required for email recovery so we can perform operational recoveries much more quickly.”

Looking Forward to 2010
Mimosa’s vision is to provide an enterprise archive repository to support a variety of information access and compliance applications. Looking forward to 2010, Mimosa will provide its customers with the flexibility to choose how they want to deploy Mimosa NearPoint: on-premise, in the cloud, or a hybrid combination of both – providing an ability to balance goals for information management, risk and cost. Additionally, given the rapid adoption of content archiving to support today’s legal, HR and information security teams, Mimosa is targeting high cost aspects of the eDiscovery process with new tools to cull-down and filter archived content to quickly identify relevant content.

“In spite of the current business climate, Mimosa continues to set the standard as an industry leader in the multi-billion dollar archiving market,” said T.M. Ravi, CEO of Mimosa Systems. “The market for archiving continues to grow rapidly, driven by burgeoning information growth and stringent eDiscovery and regulatory compliance requirements that face both government and enterprise organizations. We are moving into 2010 with a line of exciting new products that raise the bar for next-generation archiving solutions that deliver strategic value for our customers.”

About Mimosa NearPoint
Mimosa NearPoint addresses critical customer requirements around archiving, eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, business continuity, and storage optimization in a unified solution. Mimosa NearPoint proactively captures email, files, SharePoint content and instant messages; and provides legal search workflow, employee supervision, immediate mailbox and message recovery, disaster recovery, and self-service search and access in one solution. By leveraging cost-effective storage and advanced classification rules, NearPoint also optimizes content storage and reduces overall infrastructure costs.

About Mimosa
Mimosa Systems, Inc. delivers next-generation email, file and SharePoint archiving solutions for information immediacy, discovery, and continuity. Mimosa NearPoint is the industry’s most comprehensive unstructured information management software solution for email, files, collaboration systems and instant messages, enabling archiving, eDiscovery, storage management, and recovery in a unified solution. Mimosa is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, recognized for its competencies in networking infrastructure solutions, ISV/software solutions, and advanced infrastructure solutions. For more information, visit http://www.mimosasystems.com.

Friday, October 16, 2009

MIMOSA SYSTEMS TO PRESENT SESSION ON RECORDS AND STORAGE MANAGEMENT AT MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT CONFERENCE 2009

Mimosa Expert and Microsoft MVP to Share the Differences Between a Records Archive and SharePoint 2010 In-Place Records


Attention: Technology writers and editors

What: Mimosa Systems expert and Microsoft MVP to present a session titled, “Records and Storage Management with SharePoint 2010”

Who: Presented by Martin Tuip, Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager, Mimosa Systems, author of www.archiving101.com, and nine-time Microsoft MVP for Exchange Server

When: October 21, 2009 at 9:00 – 10:15 a.m.

Where: Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009
(Surf 2 Conference Room)
Mandalay Bay Convention Center
Las Vegas, NV

Members of the media are invited to attend the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 breakout session titled, “Records and Storage Management with SharePoint 2010” to learn about the differences between a records archive and SharePoint 2010 in-place records and the benefits of archiving and eDiscovery leveraging unified data capture.

“Prior to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, records were managed by creating a Records Center site to serve as an archive, then copying documents to the archive when they became records,” said Tuip. “Whether a document was a record or not was determined by whether it lived in the records archive or elsewhere. With SharePoint Server 2010, you will now be able to manage records in an archive, or you can manage records in the same document repository as active documents.”

During the session, Tuip will discuss the Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 in-place approach. With this approach when a document has been declared as a record, the record remains in place, but Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 now manages it as a record. This process will be compared with a SharePoint records archive and its ability to support eDiscovery processes through unified data capture.

Martin Tuip has more than a decade of IT experience. He started out his IT career in system administration, but has focused mostly on archiving and compliance products. He is the webmaster of a few resource sites for Exchange and SharePoint and as well is the owner of some of the world's largest user communities for these products and writes on one of the few archiving software dedicated blogs at www.archiving101.com. Martin is a published author, a nine-time Microsoft MVP for Exchange Server. He currently works as the Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager for Mimosa Systems.

Editorial Opportunities
Company executives and leading email archiving experts are also available during the conference to discuss technology and trends in SharePoint archiving, eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, business continuity, and storage optimization.

Mimosa will be demonstrating the Mimosa NearPoint for SharePoint archiving solution at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009, booth No. 607.

About Mimosa NearPoint
Mimosa NearPoint addresses critical customer requirements around archiving, eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, business continuity, and storage optimization in a unified solution. Mimosa NearPoint proactively captures email, files, SharePoint content and instant messages; and provides legal search workflow, employee supervision, immediate mailbox and message recovery, disaster recovery, and self-service search and access in one solution. By leveraging cost-effective storage and advanced classification rules, NearPoint also optimizes content storage and reduces overall infrastructure costs.

About Mimosa
Mimosa Systems, Inc. delivers next-generation email, file and SharePoint archiving solutions for information immediacy, discovery, and continuity. Mimosa NearPoint is the industry’s most comprehensive unstructured information management software solution for email, files, collaboration systems and instant messages, enabling archiving, eDiscovery, storage management, and recovery in a unified solution. Mimosa is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, recognized for its competencies in networking infrastructure solutions, ISV/software solutions, and advanced infrastructure solutions. For more information, visit http://www.mimosasystems.com.

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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

MIMOSA NEARPOINT FOR SHAREPOINT NAMED BY INFOWORLD AS A KEY ARCHIVING SOLUTION FOR RECOVERY, LONG-TERM RETENTION, AND EDISCOVERY

Mimosa NearPoint for SharePoint Next-Generation Archiving Solution Delivers Continuous Data Capture, Rapid Recovery and Significant Storage Cost Savings for Microsoft SharePoint Content


SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Mimosa Systems, the leader in next-generation email, file, and SharePoint archiving solutions, today announced that InfoWorld has identified Mimosa NearPointTM as a key recovery and archiving solution for companies that need long-term data protection, retention management and eDiscovery for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.

In his October 7, 2009 article, “Don't be caught without a SharePoint recovery solution,” Peter Bruzzese comments, “Like Public Folders for Exchange, SharePoint has become a dumping ground for all sorts of content. And it must be protected… SharePoint has a built-in backup utility, but it has limitations, especially around recovery.”

His article continues to explore options between Microsoft's built-in utilities for SharePoint and System Center Data Protection Manager (SC DPM). He states that if a company’s SharePoint backup and recovery needs go beyond what the built-in tools provide including STSAdm, Web-based Central Administration backup and restore, SharePoint Designer, or SC DPM then third-party tools need to be considered.

“One tool I've had a chance to work with is Mimosa NearPoint, which provides continuous data capture, immediate recovery of items and sites (without the need for a recovery farm), eDiscovery and retention management, and single-instance storage,” added Bruzzese.

Mimosa NearPoint provides a holistic solution to manage and protect SharePoint Server data with integrated recovery and archiving capabilities, while maintaining easy end-user access to information, or advanced eDiscovery workflow to manage legal holds. In addition, Mimosa NearPoint offers the most comprehensive SharePoint Server data capture available.

Customers can capture all content types and associated metadata and attachments, perform continuous capture via Change Notification, and preserve the relationships between sites and content. NearPoint also provides full-text indexing and global single-instance storage on all archived content. This content can then be optionally offloaded from SharePoint Server to enable storage cost savings while maintaining seamless end-user access via stubbing. Mimosa NearPoint also manages the retention and disposition of SharePoint Server content across the archive in accordance with records management policies.

“As identified by Peter Bruzzese in his InfoWorld article, SharePoint data is growing at an incredible pace and it’s critical for organizations to build a solid data protection and archiving strategy for this increasingly vital platform for corporate records,” said T.M. Ravi, CEO, Mimosa Systems. “Mimosa has built NearPoint to be a unified archiving solution for the comprehensive protection, retention, eDiscovery and storage management of Exchange, files and now, SharePoint. As a result, companies can simplify their data retention strategies while assuring compliance and litigation readiness for their growing volumes of SharePoint data.”

About Mimosa NearPoint
Mimosa NearPoint addresses critical customer requirements around archiving, eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, business continuity, and storage optimization in a unified solution. Mimosa NearPoint proactively captures email, files, SharePoint content and instant messages; and provides legal search workflow, employee supervision, immediate mailbox and message recovery, disaster recovery, and self-service search and access in one solution. By leveraging cost-effective storage and advanced classification rules, NearPoint also optimizes content storage and reduces overall infrastructure costs.

About Mimosa
Mimosa Systems, Inc. delivers next-generation email, file and SharePoint archiving solutions for information immediacy, discovery, and continuity. Mimosa NearPoint is the industry’s most comprehensive unstructured information management software solution for email, files, collaboration systems and instant messages, enabling archiving, eDiscovery, storage management, and recovery in a unified solution. Mimosa is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, recognized for its competencies in networking infrastructure solutions, ISV/software solutions, and advanced infrastructure solutions. Mimosa was founded in 2003 and is based in Santa Clara, California, with offices in Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, China, Australia, and India. For more information, visit http://www.mimosasystems.com.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Orange County Sheriff-Coroner Department Automates Email Retention and eDiscovery Processes with Mimosa Systems' Unified Archiving Solution

Multi-Faceted Law Enforcement Agency Reduces Discovery Time by 70 Percent with Mimosa NearPoint without Impacting Exchange Server Performance

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Mimosa Systems, the leader in next-generation email, file, and SharePoint archiving solutions, today announced that the Orange County Sheriff-Coroner Department has automated its email archiving and eDiscovery request processes with Mimosa NearPointTM, which addresses critical customer requirements around archiving, eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, business continuity, and storage optimization in a unified solution. As a result, the large, multi-department California law enforcement agency has reduced the time it takes for staff to respond to eDiscovery requests by 70 percent, improving operations and lowering cost.

The Orange County Sheriff-Coroner Department is a multi-faceted law enforcement agency composed of approximately 4,000 staff members and over 800 reserve personnel. The Department consists of five organizational functions divided into 20 divisions. The core services provided by the Department are public protection, jail operations, technical services, administrative, and support services. In addition to patrolling the unincorporated areas of Orange County, 12 cities in Orange County contract with the Department to serve as those cities' police departments. The Department also provides security services for many agencies in Orange County including Orange County, the Orange County Superior Court, John Wayne Airport, Orange County Transportation Authority, Social Services Agency, and Health Care Agency.

As a very active sheriff’s department for one of the most populous counties in California, the Orange County Sheriff-Coroner Department must process numerous requests for information in support of internal affairs, court cases, and public and internal investigations. Because much of the department’s communications are performed via email, these eDiscovery requests were putting an increasing strain on the IT administrators that support the department’s Exchange email environment. Because they didn’t have an email archiving solution in place, the Sheriff’s Department was performing all of its’ email discovery manually and a typical request could take as much as 100 man hours to complete as researchers would comb through emails, line by line searching for specific words, phrases, or content to meet the discovery request. In an effort to streamline productivity, the Orange County Department began to evaluate email archiving solutions that would solve the eDiscovery needs of its Exchange mailbox environment.

“We were using an Outlook search tool that could find emails based on a phrase or word, but looking through our server data as well as searching through each employee’s local PST file, custodian by custodian, was taking an exorbitant amount of time,” said Doug Blackburn, systems programmer analyst, Orange County Sheriff-Coroner Department. “After finding and implementing the comprehensive email archiving solution from Mimosa, now the eDiscovery search process is reduced substantially. The system looks through multiple accounts at the same time and flags items of interest – all with less manpower.”

As a result of its new email archiving solution, the Orange County Sheriff-Coroner Department reduced its eDiscovery response time by 70 percent. Also important, was the ability for Mimosa NearPoint to meet its eDiscovery needs without adding any impact to the performance of its Exchange server. Because NearPoint doesn’t put any load on the Exchange server its overall email environment is much healthier.

Key Mimosa NearPoint features of value to the Orange County Sheriff-Coroner Department include:

  • Next-generation architecture: Mimosa NearPoint's unique architecture does not require journaling or any agents on either the Exchange Server or user desktops. This ensures that there is no impact on the Sheriff Department’s production Exchange Server’s performance.
  • Efficient eDiscovery: Mimosa NearPoint has several features that expedite the eDiscovery process by leveraging complete content capture. These features include individual item-level legal holds, conversation and proximity analysis, and an intuitive search within a search—while demonstrating chain of custody as archived content moves through the eDiscovery workflow.
  • Continuous capture and smart extraction of exchange data: When an eDiscovery or disclosure request is made, Mimosa NearPoint quickly identifies relevant content, including all metadata, emails, folders, deletions, calendars, contacts, notes, and tasks.

    “With the volume of discovery requests that are often part of every day operations for law enforcement agencies such as the Orange County Sheriff-Coroner Department, Mimosa NearPoint delivers the automation, reliability and ease of operation that can make IT teams exponentially more productive,” said T.M. Ravi, CEO, Mimosa Systems. “Mimosa NearPoint delivers a unified solution for email retention, protection, search and recovery that has today become a necessary component for public agencies and corporations alike.”

About Mimosa NearPoint

Mimosa NearPoint addresses critical customer requirements around archiving, eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, business continuity, and storage optimization in a unified solution. Mimosa NearPoint proactively captures email, files, SharePoint content and instant messages; and provides legal search workflow, employee supervision, immediate mailbox and message recovery, disaster recovery, and self-service search and access in one solution. By leveraging cost-effective storage and advanced classification rules, NearPoint also optimizes content storage and reduces overall infrastructure costs.

About Mimosa

Mimosa Systems, Inc. delivers next-generation email, file and SharePoint archiving solutions for information immediacy, discovery, and continuity. Mimosa NearPoint is the industry’s most comprehensive unstructured information management software solution for email, files, collaboration systems and instant messages, enabling archiving, eDiscovery, storage management, and recovery in a unified solution. Mimosa is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, recognized for its competencies in networking infrastructure solutions, ISV/software solutions, and advanced infrastructure solutions. Mimosa was founded in 2003 and is based in Santa Clara, California, with offices in Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, China, Australia, and India. For more information, visit http://www.mimosasystems.com.

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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Provident Capital Leverages Mimosa Systems’ Next-Generation Archiving Solution to Reduce Storage Requirements by 70 Percent

Mimosa NearPoint Helps Leading Australian Investment Group Improve Email Management and Optimizes Microsoft Exchange Environment

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Mimosa Systems, the leader in next-generation email, file and, SharePoint archiving solutions, today announced that Provident Capital, one of Australia’s leading investment groups, has delivered a powerful integrated archive for simplified content management, storage consolidation and self-service search in a single, unified offering.

Provident Capital is one of Australia's leading diversified finance and investment funds management groups, creating and managing high quality fixed interest investments and innovative mortgage lending. Provident has deep domain expertise in identifying the need for alternative methods of investment and finance and delivering innovative financial solutions.

After evaluating several archiving solutions including Symantec, Sunbelt and GFI, Provident selected Mimosa NearPointTM because of its next-generation architecture, storage management, and self-service search capabilities. Since deploying NearPoint ten months ago, Provident has reduced storage requirements by 70 percent, boosted Exchange performance, and cut email-related help desk calls by 90 percent – freeing the IT staff to focus on the strategic needs of the business. In addition, the company has transformed its email system without incurring the expense and hassle of upgrading to a larger Exchange Server, or having to add additional hardware.

“Our results with NearPoint have been fantastic,” said Nick Corrie, Head of IT for Provident Capital. “Nearly all of our problems with PST files -- corruption, loss, and general headaches – have been eliminated, without any negative impact on Exchange, and without forcing us to upgrade our system.”

“NearPoint has been a perfect solution for us in so many ways,” added Corrie. “It has enabled us to solve our email management problems cost-effectively with an integrated, out-of-the-box archiving solution that only Mimosa could deliver.”

The Mimosa NearPoint archiving solution has delivered value to Provident Capital in the following ways including:

• Next-generation architecture: Mimosa NearPoint's unique architecture does not require journaling or any agents on either the Exchange Server or user desktops. This ensures that there is no impact on production Exchange Server performance.

• Storage management and PST archiving: Using NearPoint, administrators define policies that allow mailboxes on Exchange Servers to be extended to the NearPoint server using parameters such as message size, age, and mailbox quota. For managing offline email contained in PST files, the NearPoint PST Archiving Option crawls and uploads PST files to the NearPoint archive, where they are centrally managed and searched for email discovery. PST files can be automatically deleted after they are uploaded to the archive or remain as files managed by NearPoint.

• Self-service search of archived data: Provident employees have seamless self-service access to their archived data, enabling them to find potentially lost or deleted messages and files without IT assistance.

• Turnkey deployment and support services – Mimosa NearPoint’s ease of implementation and expert support services had Provident up and running the same day.

“The beauty of Mimosa NearPoint is that it’s an intuitive, easy-to-install and easy-to-maintain integrated archiving solution that allows organizations to set it up and virtually forget about it afterwards,” said Scott Whitney, vice president product management of Mimosa Systems. “Provident Capital’s success with NearPoint is a text-book example of how well our technology performs in the real world.”

About Mimosa NearPoint
Mimosa NearPoint addresses critical customer requirements around archiving, eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, business continuity, and storage optimization in a unified solution. Mimosa NearPoint proactively captures email, files, SharePoint content and instant messages; and provides legal search workflow, case management, employee supervision, immediate high fidelity coarse and fine grain recovery, disaster recovery, and self-service search and access in one solution. By leveraging cost-effective storage and advanced classification rules, NearPoint also optimizes content storage and reduces overall infrastructure costs.

About Mimosa
Mimosa Systems, Inc. delivers next-generation enterprise email, file and SharePoint archiving solutions for information immediacy, discovery, and continuity. Mimosa NearPoint is the industry’s most comprehensive unstructured information management software solution for email, files, collaboration systems and instant messages, enabling archiving, eDiscovery, storage consolidation, and recovery with a unified solution. Mimosa is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, recognized for its competencies in networking infrastructure solutions, ISV/software solutions, and advanced infrastructure solutions. Mimosa was founded in 2003 and is based in Santa Clara, California, with offices in Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, China, Australia, and India. For more information, visit http://www.mimosasystems.com.

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Mimosa Systems
3200 Coronado Drive
Santa Clara, California 95054
www.MimosaSystems.com
408.970.9070

Mimosa, Mimosa Systems, and Mimosa NearPoint are trademarks of Mimosa Systems, Inc. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their registered owners.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Mimosa Partners with Global Storage to Deliver Hosted Email, File and SharePoint Archiving Solution to Australia

Global Storage Integrates Mimosa NearPoint into its Hosted ArchiveReady - Enterprise Managed Archival Service

SANTA CLARA, Calif. and MELBOURNE, Australia – Mimosa Systems, the leader in next-generation email, file, and SharePoint archiving solutions, and Global Storage, a leading Australian backup and disaster recovery specialist, today announced a strategic partnership for the integration of the Mimosa NearPointTM unified content archiving platform into Global Storage’s hosted ArchiveReady™ - Enterprise Managed Archival Service. The combined solution will offer Global Storage’s government, healthcare, professional services and corporate customers throughout Australia a comprehensive solution for the protection, retention and recovery of critical email, file and SharePoint data through a managed service supported by a state-of-the-industry data center.

“At Global Storage, we have vast experience and expertise in understanding the long term challenges of managing email and file data growth and regulatory compliance needs,” said David Duncan, CEO, Global Storage. “We have made a significant investment in archival infrastructure, process and methodology, and the dedicated resources to monitor and manage a customer’s storage archival processes. Mimosa NearPoint is a leading-industry solution for the complete retention and protection of this critical company data. By partnering with Mimosa and integrating NearPoint into our hosted ArchiveReady Enterprise Managed Archival Service, we provide the most comprehensive solution available for complete information protection.”

Mimosa NearPoint will provide the technology backbone for Global Storage’s ArchiveReady solution. ArchiveReady is a next-generation content archival service that provides an integrated content archive for email, file, and SharePoint, eDiscovery, local recovery, disaster recovery and storage management, all delivered as a fully managed service. ArchiveReady provides full text indexing on email subject line, message body, and attachments as well as SharePoint content, allowing customers to use powerful search and retrieval tools to find archived email or content quickly and efficiently when needed. ArchiveReady provides enhanced SLA levels, streamlined project management, proven methodology and processes, plus a dedicated team of archival specialists to manage and monitor day to day operations.

Key Benefits of ArchiveReady, which is powered by Mimosa NearPoint, include:

• Powerful indexing and search capabilities ensure regulatory compliance and legal discovery
• Provides rapid recovery and disaster recovery for Exchange, file, and SharePoint content
• Strong SLAs guarantee the long term archival and retrieval of valuable data assets
• Next-generation archiving provides single solution for email and file archiving, eDiscovery, disaster recovery and storage management
• Migrates email, PST files and aged file and SharePoint data, reducing primary storage and backup costs
• Reduces CAPEX requirement – service charged as Capacity on Demand monthly OPEX payment
• Improves Exchange, file, and SharePoint storage utilization and server performance
• Fully managed service frees up valuable internal IT resources
• High performance archiving provides continuous replication of email and SharePoint data

“The market for hosted archiving services is exploding and Mimosa is pleased to be partnering with Global Storage as the premier managed services leader in the Australian region,” said T.M Ravi, CEO, Mimosa. “Global Storage has built one of the most impressive and comprehensive email, file, and SharePoint data protection and disaster recovery service solutions available through a managed service, and its selection of Mimosa NearPoint is a true testament to the value and reliability of our solution. Now, customers throughout Australia can protect their mission-critical data while benefiting from the simplicity of a managed service.”

About Global Storage
Global Storage is a leading Australian provider of enterprise managed disaster recovery, backup and archival services out of the cloud. By offering specialised consulting on data protection requirements, Global Storage assists CIOs and IT managers with a strategy to mitigate business risk, deliver cost savings and improve efficiency. Global Storage’s expertise and specialisation in disaster recovery, backup and archival enables them to deliver enterprise class data protection to meet the most stringent business requirements for business continuity.

For more information, visit: http://www.global-storage.com.au.

About Mimosa NearPoint Mimosa NearPoint addresses critical customer requirements around archiving, eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, business continuity, and storage optimization in a unified solution. Mimosa NearPoint proactively captures email, files, SharePoint content and instant messages; and provides legal search workflow, employee supervision, immediate mailbox and message recovery, disaster recovery, and self-service search and access in one solution. By leveraging cost-effective storage and advanced classification rules, NearPoint also optimizes content storage and reduces overall infrastructure costs.

About MimosaMimosa Systems, Inc. delivers next-generation email, file and SharePoint archiving solutions for information immediacy, discovery, and continuity. Mimosa NearPoint is the industry’s most comprehensive unstructured information management software solution for email, files, collaboration systems and instant messages, enabling archiving, eDiscovery, storage management, and recovery in a unified solution. Mimosa is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, recognized for its competencies in networking infrastructure solutions, ISV/software solutions, and advanced infrastructure solutions. Mimosa was founded in 2003 and is based in Santa Clara, California, with offices in Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, China, Australia, and India. For more information, visit http://www.mimosasystems.com.

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Mimosa Systems
3200 Coronado Drive
Santa Clara, California 95054
www.mimosasystems.com
408.970.9070

Mimosa, Mimosa Systems, and Mimosa NearPoint are trademarks of Mimosa Systems. All other product and company names herein are or may be trademarks of their registered owners.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Mimosa Systems’ Next-Generation Email Archiving Solution Selected As One Of The Best Channel Products Of 2009 By Business Solutions Magazine

Resellers Recognize Mimosa NearPoint’s Reliability and Feature-Rich Functionality to Fuel Channel Opportunities in Multiple Markets

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Mimosa Systems, the leader in next-generation email, file, and SharePoint archiving solutions, today announced that Business Solutions Magazine has chosen Mimosa NearPointTM as one of the best channel products of 2009. The award recognizes Mimosa NearPoint’s product reliability and rich feature-set.
Mimosa NearPoint provides resellers with tremendous opportunities in many different markets. It enables resellers to quickly address various customer requirements around email archiving, eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, business continuity, and storage optimization in a unified solution. The product provides comprehensive content archiving, mailbox management, self-service recovery, “one-click” recovery, and end-user search in a single unified product offering.
In addition, Mimosa NearPoint provides content monitoring capabilities that deliver unmatched employee supervision and risk management to meet the demands of more vigilant corporate governance policies and regulatory compliance. The product is easy to deploy and maintain because there are no agents to install on Exchange or on user laptops or desktops.
"Resellers’ passionate enthusiasm for Mimosa NearPoint made it easy for us to include it on the Best Channel Products list," said Sue Bresee, publisher of Business Solutions Magazine. "Resellers rated Mimosa NearPoint very high overall in the Data Management Software category, and particularly high in richness of features/functionality and product reliability/durability."
“Business Solution Magazine’s recognition of Mimosa NearPoint as one of the best channel products underscores our commitment to the reseller community and validates our leadership in delivering next-generation archiving solutions that are easy to sell, install and maintain,” said Scott Whitney, vice president, product management of Mimosa Systems. “Mimosa NearPoint is definitely a big hit with our resellers. They consistently praise the product’s versatility, rich functionality, and ease-of-use.”
From May through mid June of 2009, Business Solutions Magazine surveyed more than 2,100 reseller subscribers online. The survey included questions on the reliability of the products, the richness of feature-sets and functionality, ease of integration and the VAR's ability to support and service. The top 15 percent of vendors in each technology category surveyed were selected as Best Channel Products.
“The response to our survey was astonishing,” said Bresee. “We generated 19,833 votes from 2,186 Business Solution Magazine's reseller subscribers. The 2,186 resellers represent an estimated $14.3 billion in annual sales, making this one of the largest surveys of its kind.”
Mimosa supports its channel partners through the comprehensive Mimosa Partner Advantage Program. The program offers three tiers of participation - Referral, Preferred and Elite - for value-added resellers, consulting services partners and system integrators. The Mimosa Partner Advantage Program is designed to provide comprehensive pre- and post-sales support for Mimosa NearPoint solutions. For more information on the Mimosa Partner Advantage Program please visit: http://www.mimosasystems.com/html/part_overview.htm
About Business Solutions Magazine Business Solutions Magazine inspires executives of IT channel companies (VARs, integrators, and solution providers) to grow their businesses by teaching them how to sell new IT products and services, penetrate thriving vertical markets, and integrate complementary technologies. Business Solutions delivers its insight through channel success stories and advice from industry analysts, vendors, and our expert technology editors. The magazine is published by Jameson Publishing, located in Erie and Wexford, PA. Jameson also publishes technology trade magazines Integrated Solutions, and Integrated Solutions for Retailers. Founded in 1980, the company now has 70 employees and generates over $13 million in annual revenue. More information is available at www.businesssolutionsmag.com.
About Mimosa NearPoint Mimosa NearPoint addresses critical customer requirements around archiving, eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, business continuity, and storage optimization in a unified solution. Mimosa NearPoint proactively captures email, files, SharePoint content and instant messages; and provides legal search workflow, employee supervision, immediate mailbox and message recovery, disaster recovery, and self-service search and access in one solution. By leveraging cost-effective storage and advanced classification rules, NearPoint also optimizes content storage and reduces overall infrastructure costs.
About MimosaMimosa Systems, Inc. delivers next-generation email, file and SharePoint archiving solutions for information immediacy, discovery, and continuity. Mimosa NearPoint is the industry’s most comprehensive unstructured information management software solution for email, files, collaboration systems and instant messages, enabling archiving, eDiscovery, storage management, and recovery in a unified solution. Mimosa is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, recognized for its competencies in networking infrastructure solutions, ISV/software solutions, and advanced infrastructure solutions. Mimosa was founded in 2003 and is based in Santa Clara, California, with offices in Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, China, Australia, and India. For more information, visit http://www.mimosasystems.com. ###