SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 26 -- Mimosa Systems, a leader in live content archiving solutions, today announced that it is bringing the promise of grid computing to e-mail archiving environments with the release of Mimosa NearPoint 3.0 for Microsoft Exchange Server software. The multi-node grid architecture is the most scalable architecture in the e-mail archiving industry -- enabling support for hundreds of thousands of mailboxes in a single system. Other industry-firsts in NearPoint 3.0 include version history for Active Directory, plus the combination of archiving, continuous data protection and disaster recovery for public folders.

Mimosa NearPoint 3.0 for Microsoft Exchange Server software is the only integrated solution for e-mail archival, eDiscovery, disaster recovery and storage management that can economically scale to meet the demands of today’s enterprise. It delivers maximum protection from risks associated with litigation and e-mail failures, scale to meet enterprise needs and low total cost of ownership.

“With the explosion of user-driven information and the ever increasing demands of legal discovery, corporate governance is no longer limited to select groups within an organization -- it is being applied across the enterprise, driving the need for archiving and e-Discovery scalability,” said Laura DuBois, research director of storage software at IDC. “With the initial introduction of unique email capture using transaction log shipping, and now with grid scalability, Mimosa has been an innovator in the e-mail archiving space.”

The new multi-node grid design of Mimosa NearPoint features a hot-plug modular architecture that allows servers to be added or taken away as required with no downtime. The grid is “self healing," with archiving tasks dynamically reassigned to other servers in the event of a node failure. Administrators have a single system view across the multiple nodes with single point configuration and policy enforcement. Servers can be configured in either a “superscalar” grid, where each node performs the complete range of e-mail archiving tasks; or in a “superpipelined” grid, whereby each node is dedicated specifically to e-mail archiving.

“Scalability of our e-mail archiving environment is a key requirement for us to accommodate future growth to meet our compliance and e-Discovery needs,” said Andrew Gahm, network architect at Virtua Health, a multi-hospital health care system headquartered in Marlton, N.J. “With Mimosa NearPoint, we feel better protected for e-Discovery situations by having instant archive access to all of our Exchange information, including public folders, offline PST files, calendars, contacts, notes and more.”

“Mimosa is once again revolutionizing the content archiving market by bringing the massive scalability of grid computing to Microsoft Exchange e-mail environments,” said T.M. Ravi, president and CEO at Mimosa Systems. “Mimosa NearPoint 3.0 combines the lowest total cost of ownership with the most scalable and modular e-mail archiving solution on the market. As a platform, it is designed to support not just e-mail, but other content types including Instant Messages, files, SharePoint and more.”

Mimosa NearPoint 3.0 includes:

• Disaster Recovery -- Support for warm standby disaster recovery for instantaneous recovery of Exchange and e-mail service to end-users in the event of a disaster. Offers new flexible configurations allowing optimization for provisioning cost, recovery speed or both.

• Enhanced Support for Exchange 2007, Live Communication Server (IM) and 64 Bit Servers -- Extends content management to include instant messaging and takes advantage of new Exchange 2007 features for disaster recovery, folder level retention and mailbox level journaling.

• Automated PST File Archiving -- New “crawler” automatically searches and retrieves PST files from servers, desktops and laptops based on administrator-defined policies.

• Active Directory Integration -- Leverages roles defined in Active Directory and provides a version history of Active Directory, including distribution lists. Contents of distribution lists are viewed as they appeared when an email was originally sent or received.

• Public Folder Archiving -- Performs archiving and continuous data protection for public folders and allow auditors to search all public folder content and re-create chain-of-custody for compliance and legal discovery.

• Scalable Storage and Reduced Archive Storage Requirements -- Redesigned to deliver improved scalability and performance for the archive server with support for multiple databases and extensible storage volumes.

• International Language Support -- Enables global enterprise scaling by providing support for German, French and Japanese.

• Pre-Installation and Configuration Tools -- New pre-installation checks verify the correct version for all required software for ease of installation, and post-installation tools allow archive system parameters to be changed using high level wizards.

About Mimosa Systems

Mimosa Systems Inc. delivers next-generation information management solutions for information immediacy, discovery and continuity. Mimosa NearPoint for Microsoft Exchange Server is the industry’s most comprehensive information management software solution for Microsoft Exchange, unifying e-mail archiving, recovery and storage optimization. NearPoint assures e-mail continuity and regulatory compliance, while leveraging cost-effective disk technologies to optimize e-mail storage growth. Mimosa is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner recognized for its competencies in networking infrastructure solutions, ISV software solutions and information worker. Mimosa is a privately held company whose investors include August Capital, Clearstone Venture Partners, Dot Edu Ventures, JAFCO Ventures and Mayfield Fund. Mimosa was founded in 2003 and is based in Santa Clara, Calif., with offices in Munich, Germany, and Pune, India. For more information, see www.mimosasystems.com.

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Source: Mimosa Systems Inc.