Monday, 23 May 2005 17:39 EST

Mimosa Addresses Information Immediacy, Discovery and Continuity Needs for Critical Enterprise Information

Santa Clara, Calif. -- May 23, 2005 – Mimosa Systems™, Inc., today announced the release of Mimosa NearPoint™ for Microsoft® Exchange Server, a unified data management solution for Microsoft Exchange. Mimosa NearPoint addresses critical customer requirements around email recovery, storage optimization, legal discovery and regulatory compliance. A comprehensive solution for email data management, Mimosa NearPoint provides immediate mailbox and message recovery, disaster recovery, email archiving and self-service search and access in one solution. By leveraging cost-effective storage, NearPoint™ also optimizes email storage and reduces overall infrastructure costs.

Mimosa Systems provides information immediacy, discovery and continuity for the new generation of critical enterprise information by enabling fingertip access to vast information by users; powerful and rapid search and retrieval of corporate historical information by auditors; and uninterrupted access to corporate information in the midst of failures and errors. Mimosa™ is focused on data management of unstructured and semi-structured information, including email, documents, and other new data types.

Mimosa’s initial focus is on email. Email is a mission critical application that requires continuity and immediate recovery. Email has become a business record that needs to be managed with proper retention and discovery capabilities. As the primary tool for communication and collaboration, email is the most valuable business productivity tool for business users. Email servers have become the storehouses of large amounts of business record data causing an explosion of storage on email servers. For example, across all messaging systems, storage is growing at an average of 32% annually (Osterman Research) and email accounts for over half of electronic information requested in litigation.

Peter Gerr, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group said, "No one will argue that email is critical to business today. When email servers are down, company productivity comes to a halt. In addition, IT and business professionals need better email data management and data protection for corporate governance. Companies can spend millions in conducting just one search of back up tapes to recover historical emails. Mimosa's NearPoint for Microsoft Exchange is a unique, purpose-built solution that can solve both these issues, combining data protection and archiving of email in an easy to deploy package without significantly changing the end-user experience."

"We use unified messaging where email, fax, and voicemail are combined within Exchange. This makes Exchange a mission critical application for us and data management has simply become unmanageable," said Bill Bragg, Director of Information Systems for Sears' Home Improvement Division. "Whether it was restoring mailboxes to aide in email discovery for litigation support, dealing with mailbox quotas to manage storage growth, or database level disaster recovery, the built-in Microsoft Outlook Archival tools and our tape backup solution were just not robust enough for users in a large enterprise. Any one of these email challenges took hours if not days to address, and at a prohibitive cost to our business. Mimosa NearPoint for Exchange addressed our email data management problems with its immediate recovery and archival features that include management of email retention along with user self-service search and retrieval. It is really impressive that Mimosa’s one integrated solution addressed all of our email management challenges!”

Unified Solution
Mimosa NearPoint for Microsoft Exchange provides unified data protection, email archiving and storage management in a single solution. It affords the following capabilities for customers:

* Fine-grained recovery of Exchange databases, mailboxes and messages
- Application-aware continuous data protection reduces loss of data in the event of a disaster
- Immediate disk-based recovery reduces application downtime
* Real-time email archiving
- Retention and disposition management supports corporate email policy and compliance efforts
* Discovery for corporate and legal officers and auditors
- Advanced search of messages, calendar items, contacts, etc.
- Re-create complex message threads for forensics and legal discovery
* Self-service archival access for end users
- Seamless integration with Outlook/OWA interface
- Powerful “Google-like” search capability
* Reduces Exchange storage, improves performance and efficiency of the Exchange server
- End-user access to “infinite” mailboxes
* Radically simpler to deploy
- Zero footprint on Exchange and desktops
- Default policies



“Microsoft appreciates the depth of expertise that Mimosa Systems has in providing comprehensive solutions for litigation support, regulatory compliance, recovery, and infrastructure optimization for Microsoft Exchange customers,” said Donna Conner, Senior Product Manager in the Exchange Server Product Group at Microsoft Corp. “Mimosa NearPoint enhances Exchange Server with innovative archiving and data protection leveraging Microsoft technologies and standards. The seamless integration with Outlook helps increase user self-sufficiency and effectiveness.”

“Our goal at Mimosa is to make it simpler for corporations to manage email, documents and other enterprise content throughout their lifecycle,” said T.M. Ravi, President and CEO, Mimosa Systems, Inc. “Mimosa’s next-generation data management solutions will help transform everyday business processes and drive benefits across the organization, from CXOs to legal, HR, IT, and most importantly to employees.”

Pricing and Availability
NearPoint for Microsoft Exchange is available immediately, starting at $9995.

About Mimosa
Mimosa Systems, Inc. delivers next-generation data management solutions for information immediacy, discovery and continuity. Mimosa’s flagship product, Mimosa NearPoint™ for Microsoft® Exchange Server is the industry’s most comprehensive data management software solution for Microsoft Exchange, unifying email recovery, archiving and storage optimization. NearPoint assures e-mail continuity and regulatory compliance, while leveraging cost-effective disk technologies to optimize email storage growth. Mimosa is a privately held company whose investors include August Capital, Clearstone Venture Partners and Dot Edu Ventures. Mimosa was founded in 2003 and is based in Santa Clara, California and Pune, India. For more information see www.mimosasystems.com.
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