Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Mimosa Systems Sees Rapid Growth Throughout Asia Pacific Region As Demand For Email, File And SharePoint Archiving Accelerates

Leader in Next-Generation Archiving Experiences Strong Customer Growth Across Asia Pacific in Key Industries Including Energy, Finance, Government, Manufacturing and Retail


Santa Clara, Calif. – Mimosa Systems, the leader in next-generation email, file and SharePoint archiving solutions, today announced rapid adoption in the Asia Pacific region for the company’s next-generation Mimosa NearPointTM archiving solution. Customers throughout the region in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand and Singapore continue to select Mimosa NearPoint as their archiving solution of choice for email, file and SharePoint information management to address discovery, retention and recovery in a unified offering.

With its Asia Pacific regional presence continuing to grow, Mimosa has partnered with storage partners throughout the region, including Dell, HDS, HP and NetApp. By working closely together, Mimosa and its partners are helping Asia Pacific businesses and government organizations face mounting challenges around data privacy, legal and regulatory compliance and ever growing data storage requirements.

“As a Microsoft Gold Certified partner, Mimosa Systems is equipped with the latest technologies and skills that in turn can help deliver better solutions for its customers,” said Vice President (Asia), for Small and Mid-market Solutions and Partners at Microsoft Corporation, Chris Atkinson. “Customers of Mimosa Systems can be assured of the quality, expertise and professionalism that the company delivers in integrated archiving and eDiscovery solutions that use Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft SharePoint Server. We look forward to Mimosa System’s continued partnership in driving growth in Asia Pacific.”

Mimosa’s customer growth throughout Asia Pacific countries spans multiple vertical markets from energy, finance, manufacturing, retail, transportation and government. Significant customers for Mimosa in the Asia Pacific region include: East China Electric Power Design Institute, China Career International Consulting, and AllTrust Insurance Company of China Limited in China; Provident Capital Limited in Australia; Mydin Mohamed Holdings in Malaysia; National Oxygen Pte, Ltd., and STATS ChipPAC, Ltd. in Singapore.

Customers Standardize on Mimosa as Unified Content Archive of Choice
“Mimosa NearPoint is a next-generation email archiving solution that solves multiple problems for managing Microsoft Exchange storage,” said A. Muthumariappan, IT manager, National Oxygen Pte, Ltd. “Using NearPoint we can remove unwanted emails from Exchange while end-users enjoy self-service access to all their archived email content. We can also use NearPoint to archive offline PST files which solves major legal and storage issues for us. It is exactly the comprehensive archiving solution we were looking for.”

“Mimosa NearPoint has helped us solve critical issues around email recovery, archiving and storage management,” said Lee Teck Guan, director corporate IT, STATS ChipPAC, Ltd. “We selected Mimosa NearPoint over other vendors for its next-generation architecture, seamless integration with Microsoft Exchange and recovery features. Overall, NearPoint has proven successful in solving our critical Exchange challenges, providing us with real productivity gains.”

“We have been using Mimosa NearPoint for a year now and we have had a great experience with this product,” said Nick Corrie, IT director, Provident Capital Limited. “Our days of corrupted PST files and lack of central control over email archiving are over, and we have also made use of some of the compliance features of the product. We are very impressed by the engineering support that Mimosa offered us either over the phone, or locally in Australia. I’d highly recommend this product to anyone wanting to take efficient and rigorous control over their Exchange archival and compliance requirements.”

Mimosa NearPoint is a superior solution for businesses and government organizations throughout Asia Pacific because it offers a unified approach for integrated content archiving, storage optimization, information access and search, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, data protection, and disaster recovery. The solution also enables litigation readiness, business continuity and end-user search while reducing overall operational costs. For companies in China and Japan, NearPoint has been localized for Traditional and Simplified Chinese, and Japanese.

“The Asia Pacific region is an area rich with tremendous opportunity for Mimosa,” said T.M. Ravi, CEO, Mimosa Systems. “We are seeing exponential growth in customers in the region and a solid brand presence that will propel our continued success.”

As part of its continued expansion strategy, Mimosa is actively recruiting potential partners and resellers in each country throughout the Asia Pacific region. For more information, please contact: asiasales@mimosasystems.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 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.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Chichester School District Prepares For eDiscovery With Mimosa Next-Generation Content Archive

Pennsylvania K-12 Public School District Optimizes their Microsoft Exchange Environment for eDiscovery, Disaster Recovery and Data Retention with Mimosa NearPoint

Santa Clara, Calif. – Mimosa Systems, the leader in next-generation email, file and SharePoint archiving solutions, today announced that the Mimosa NearPointTM next-generation content archiving solution has been selected by Chichester School District to help them prepare for eDiscovery while supporting their email management, disaster recovery and record retention requirements.

With 4,000 K-12 students supported by a staff of 700, the Chichester School District in Boothwyn, Pa. has a mission to educate students by wisely managing finite resources. To support their mission and beliefs, Chichester School District places high important on the efficiency of its IT infrastructure. Designed to support email, financial applications, student management applications, and a parent portal website based on Microsoft SharePoint, Chichester’s IT infrastructure is the core of its educational operations.

To run its infrastructure, the school district has 40 servers, a HP Procurve backbone and a NetApp StoreVault SAN designed to support its data backup applications. Yet, the district still found that it needed a more comprehensive solution to better safeguard its email content while enabling simplified eDiscovery in support of new regulations for the U.S. Department of State Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

“We found that eDiscovery requests could bury our IT staff for up to two weeks,” said Tim McGrath, senior network administrator, Chichester School District. “We had to restore old Exchange backups from tape in order to search for requested information. The process was like finding a needle in a haystack–with no guarantee we would find what was needed.”

Chichester’s Exchange archiving needs went beyond eDiscovery. The school district was experiencing 35 percent growth rate per year in email volume. To deal with the increasing data volume Chichester instituted Exchange mailbox quotas making it difficult for users to retain the data they wanted to keep.

“We needed an archiving solution that would not only simplify our eDiscovery process,” added Tim McGrath, “we also needed to free our users from mailbox limit constraints and reduce our overall storage needs. Mimosa NearPoint was the only solution we evaluated that could deliver it all in one comprehensive solution without impacting the performance of our Exchange server. Plus, it integrated seamlessly with our NetApp storage solution.”

After evaluating Symantec, CommVault and Proofpoint, Chichester School District selected Mimosa NearPoint because it offered the following:

• Next-Generation Architecture: Mimosa NearPoint's unique architecture does not require journaling or any agents on either the Exchange Server or user desktops. This will simplify Chichester School District’s deployment and ensures that there is no impact on production Exchange Server performance.

• Efficient and Comprehensive eDiscovery: Mimosa NearPoint offers several features to expedite Chichester’s eDiscovery process by leveraging complete content capture including 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 workflow.

• Mailbox storage management: With NearPoint, Chichester has reduced storage requirements on its Exchange Server by nearly half by migrating or extending attachments based on policies of age, document size, or mailbox size.

• Automated, Application Intelligent Disaster Recovery: NearPoint reliably protects Chichester’s Exchange information through non-invasive, continuous application shadowing. This preserves the consistency and integrity of Exchange data, and enables "one-click" full email data and service recovery when needed.

• Turnkey Deployment and Support Services – Mimosa NearPoint’s ease of implementation and expert support services had the Chichester School District up and running within two days and with just two phone calls.

“By delivering all of the archiving, eDiscovery, disaster recovery and storage management capabilities Chichester needs in a single solution, NearPoint helps to support their mission to wisely manage finite resources,” said Scott Whitney, vice president, product management, Mimosa Systems. “We are pleased to enable resource-constrained public school districts like Chichester better protect, manage and recover their critical content with Mimosa’s integrated archiving solution.”

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.