Mimosa Helps Nation's Largest Diversified Industrial Real Estate Provider to Dramatically...

Mimosa Helps Nation's Largest Diversified Industrial Real Estate Provider to Dramatically Reduce E-Discovery Process and Email Management Costs

First Industrial Realty Trust Says Mimosa Systems' Live Content
Archiving Solution Ensures Business Continuity With "One-Click"
Disaster Recovery
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Mimosa Systems, a leader in Live Content Archiving solutions,
announced today that First Industrial Realty Trust reports that Mimosa
NearPoint(TM), has proven an invaluable tool for eDiscovery, business
continuity and 'one-click' disaster recovery in a single solution. The
company has dramatically reduced the eDiscovery process and eliminated
storage capacity limitations and data management expenses.

With headquarters in Chicago and offices serving more than 30
markets throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe, First Industrial
Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:FR) is a leading provider of industrial real
estate supply chain solutions. First Industrial leases, develops,
redevelops, buys, sells and manages industrial facilities. The company
owns, manages, and has under development more than 100 million square
feet of industrial space, including facilities in major sea and inland
port markets near intermodal facilities and transportation hubs.

Addressing Exchange storage management challenges was First
Industrial's initial objective in seeking an email archiving vendor.
The short-term solution of offloading PST files presented its own
management challenges, and the company soon began to search out a more
effective solution.

"We had performance problems because our data volumes were
reaching capacity and straining the limits of the Exchange database,"
said Nick Colakovic, Director of IT, First Industrial Realty Trust.
"Our helpdesk was dealing with daily issues that often took up to a
half-day to resolve for a single user request. This siphoned resources
away from more strategic projects and issues."

Colakovic's department found a 20 to 30 percent performance impact
when it tested traditional legacy archive vendor solutions, and these
products were unable to offer eDiscovery or disaster recovery options
in a single solution. "Mimosa impressed us because they had everything
under the hood including eDiscovery, Exchange storage optimization and
"one-click" rapid recovery," Colakovic said.

First Industrial ultimately opted for the Mimosa NearPoint content
archiving solution and found the installation fast and easy. According
to Colakovic, no client software had to be installed and it was
unnecessary to take the system down, so there was no impact on
end-user performance.

"We've been using NearPoint for two years now and think of Mimosa
as our Swiss Army knife, providing us with all the tools necessary to
do discovery, storage optimization, granular item recovery and
disaster recovery in a single solution. We have more than 30 satellite
offices to support and we have rapidly grown our company's
infrastructure, including adding offices internationally. We are
confident that Mimosa's grid architecture will play an important role
as we continue to expand," Colakovic said.

Key Mimosa NearPoint features that were particularly important to
First Industrial include:

-- Continuous Capture and Archiving of Exchange Data: including
all metadata, emails, folders, deletions, calendars, contacts,
notes, tasks to quickly identify relevant content as part of a
discovery or disclosure request.

-- Automated Exchange Storage Management: Mimosa NearPoint
reduces storage requirements by moving attachments, based on
policies of age and size, to the NearPoint server. The
NearPoint Mailbox Extension feature allows First Industrial's
IT staff to define policies that stub attachments in Exchange
while still giving users seamless access to the email.

-- Simple "One-Click" Recovery: Mimosa NearPoint gives First
Industrial continuous protection of all its Exchange
information. NearPoint preserves all Exchange information disk
and allows users to restore individual messages themselves via
Outlook and allows administrators to restore complete
mailboxes and databases with simple "one-click" operations.

"We are pleased that Mimosa NearPoint continues to provide strong
value to address all of First Industrial Realty Trust's content
requirements, in a highly scalable, easy to manage, unified solution,"
said T.M. Ravi, CEO of Mimosa Systems. "In today's complex,
multi-site, multinational data environments we continue to demonstrate
that our products provide major productivity and cost advantages."

About First Industrial Realty Trust

First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:FR) provides industrial
real estate solutions for every stage of a customer's supply chain, no
matter how large or complex. Across more than 30 markets in the United
States, Canada, and Europe, the company's local market experts buy,
(re)develop, lease, manage and sell industrial properties, including
all of the major facility types -- R&D/flex, light industrial,
manufacturing, and regional and bulk distribution centers. First
Industrial continues to receive leading customer service scores from
Kingsley Associates, an independent research firm, and in total, the
company owns, manages, and has under development more than 100 million
square feet of industrial space.

About Mimosa NearPoint

Mimosa NearPoint addresses critical customer requirements around
content archiving, eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, business
continuity, and storage optimization in a unified solution. Mimosa
NearPoint provides legal search workflow, immediate mailbox and
message recovery, content monitoring, disaster recovery, email,
instant message and file archiving, 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 content archiving
solutions for information immediacy, discovery, and continuity. Mimosa
NearPoint is the industry's most comprehensive unstructured
information management software solution for email, files, backup
tapes, 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 is a privately held company whose
investors include Clearstone Venture Partners, August Capital, JAFCO
Ventures, Mayfield Fund, and Focus Ventures. Mimosa was founded in
2003 and is based in Santa Clara, California, with offices in Germany,
the United Kingdom, Japan, China, Australia, and India. For more
information, see www.mimosasystems.com.

Mimosa Systems

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www.MimosaSystems.com

408.970.9070

Mimosa, Mimosa Systems, and Mimosa NearPoint are trademarks of
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