Boston Medical Center Standardizes on Mimosa Integrated Archive for Its eDiscovery Workflow and Superior Capture

SANTA CLARA, CA, Jun 16 (MARKET WIRE) --
Mimosa Systems, the leader in next-generation email, file and SharePoint
archiving solutions, today announced that a leading academic medical
facility, Boston Medical Center (BMC), has selected the Mimosa
NearPoint(TM) next-generation content archiving solution to deliver
eDiscovery and integrated archiving for all business critical Microsoft
Exchange data including emails, calendars, contacts, tasks and deleted
items. Using Mimosa NearPoint, Boston Medical is able to meet its
objective to comply with preservation requests as part of the Federal
Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP).

Boston Medical Center is a private, not for profit, academic medical
center located in Boston's historic South End. The hospital is the primary
teaching affiliate for Boston University School of Medicine. Emphasizing
community-based care, BMC has a mission to provide consistently accessible
health services to all and is the largest safety net hospital in New
England. It provides a full spectrum of pediatric and adult care services
from primary to family medicine advanced specialty care. Boston Medical
also has the largest 24-hour Level One trauma center in New England.

The medical center, which is an expansive campus environment that covers
three city blocks, has an equally extensive information technology
infrastructure which includes an expansive number of Exchange email boxes.
The hospital's ITS department chose to implement Mimosa NearPoint over
several other archiving solutions for its next-generation capabilities,
ease of management, and reputation for superior customer service and
support. Mimosa NearPoint offered a seamless integration with the center's
Data Domain deduplication storage systems that provide efficient storage
reduction capabilities and enterprise-class backup and disaster recovery.

In addition, BMC needed to reevaluate its data retention policies which
had been originally developed to comply with the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act. The center wanted to take a proactive
approach to eDiscovery to ensure compliance with FRCP requirements and
assist with the center's long term data retention requirements.

"The FRCP requirements turned email into a critical business record," said
Brad Blake, director of IT for Boston Medical Center. "Our Legal and HR
departments now require the ability to discover all aspects of information
within our Exchange email environment. Not just emails, but calendar
items, task information as well as deletions, so that they can produce an
accurate history of each business record as part of an eDiscovery
request."

Initially the medical center spent about 20 hours per week to perform the
manual process of crawling tapes to meet discovery requests but the
process was time and resource intensive, costly, and didn't guarantee
that all information being requested would be found. That's when BMC
decided to execute an extensive RFP process to identify the best
solution. The BMC ITS group, working in conjunction with the Legal and HR
departments, evaluated several separate vendors identified through
Gartner's Magic Quadrant. Ultimately, the medical center was looking for
an email archiving solution that was easy for end users, that was
searchable, and that could manage litigation holds if needed. They also
sought a solution that would not impact overall Exchange server
performance.

"Ultimately, we chose Mimosa for its next-generation architecture and ease
of use," said Blake. "Other solutions were complex, costly and required
journaling which added overhead to our Exchange environment which we
simply couldn't afford. Mimosa NearPoint also stood out from an eDiscovery
perspective with its intuitive screens which have empowered our Legal and
HR staff to search for and gather this information themselves thus
eliminating the burden from ITS. NearPoint also has the intelligence to
manage all Exchange items which can't be done with a product that relies
on journaling technology."

Boston Medical Center selected Mimosa NearPoint because it delivered the
following key features:

-- 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 BMC's production Exchange
Server's performance.

-- Efficient eDiscovery: Mimosa NearPoint has several features that expedite
the eDiscovery process for Boston Medical Center 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.

-- Intuitive self-service search of archived data: Boston Medical's
employees have seamless self-service access to their archived data,
enabling them to find potentially lost or deleted messages without IT
assistance.

"We are pleased to have been selected by Boston Medical Center,
especially following their in depth selection process," said T.M. Ravi,
CEO, Mimosa Systems. "Increasingly stringent regulations have had a
significant impact in the healthcare market. As such, Mimosa is pleased
to deliver a comprehensive solution to meet their growing eDiscovery and
archiving requirements without impacting Exchange server performance or
straining IT staff resources."

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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www.mimosasystems.com
408.970.9070

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