Mimosa Systems Expands Proactive eDiscovery Capabilities With Industry's Most Comprehensive Enterprise Archiving

SANTA CLARA, CA, Jun 30 (MARKET WIRE) --
Mimosa Systems, the leader in next-generation email, file and SharePoint
archiving solutions, today announced Mimosa NearPoint(TM) 4.0, the fourth
major version of its comprehensive solution for archiving, eDiscovery
and business user productivity. Including new capabilities for expedited
eDiscovery in very large enterprise deployments and support for multiple
data capture methods, NearPoint 4.0 also offers significant new
functionality for today's information worker that unifies information
from all content types into a powerful personal productivity and business
decision platform powered by an intelligent archive.

"An organization's information archive is the living, breathing record of
its business," said Laura DuBois, IDC. "If properly implemented and
managed with the right solutions and processes, the enterprise archive
can become the pivotal business productivity and decision platform for
optimizing a business' intellectual capital for informed business
analytics. Customers should definitely evaluate Mimosa NearPoint 4.0
which delivers significant new capabilities for eDiscovery and enterprise
business productivity -- all key components of tomorrow's intelligent
enterprise archiving platform."

Expedited Electronic Discovery

Mimosa NearPoint 4.0 decreases the time to identify, collect and preserve
electronically stored information with advanced case management and
workflow tools that leverage attorney work products between cases. As a
result, Legal and Compliance teams can work together efficiently to assess
the case, determine legal strategies, place item-level litigation holds,
and complete pre-reviews or internal audits quickly.

"The downturn in the economy has increased litigation, particularly around
employment and shareholder issues. Companies are well advised to consider
a proactive plan for dealing with litigation before it ensues. Business
should strive to avoid liability where possible and mitigate costs when
litigation is necessary. Because of the amorphous nature of Electronically
Stored Information (ESI), eDiscovery often drives litigation costs.
Compliance with eDiscovery requirements very often means ensuring complete
ESI data capture to a searchable ESI archive," said William Savarino,
Partner in the Washington DC Law Firm of Cohen Mohr LLP. "Bringing the
eDiscovery process in-house through the use of case management and
delegated administration tools like those offered by Mimosa NearPoint
eDiscovery allows corporate legal departments to save cost and time."

Key eDiscovery features of NearPoint 4.0 include:

-- Unified eDiscovery across email, file system, and SharePoint content.
-- Workflow tools to organize and share complex search queries, review
list, legal holds and tags across cases or teams.
-- Delegate sensitive workloads such as search and pre-review from IT to
legal teams.
-- Search automation and federation across geographies and domains with
granular permissions.
-- Scheduled searches to automatically populate a case with new content
received into the archive.

"We need to continue to expedite our eDiscovery practices while
ensuring complete content capture to our archive," said Michael Lawrence,
CISO & Senior Network Administrator, City of Lenexa. "Mimosa NearPoint
supports our need to perform individual item-level legal holds and
conversation and proximity analysis. NearPoint's case management and
delegated administration will allow users to run their own searches and
escalate sensitive content to Legal for review. We have been a long time
Mimosa user and the product continues to be on the cutting-edge. It's the
most powerful solution we have found for archiving and enterprise
eDiscovery."

Advanced Information Access for Today's Enterprise Information Worker

To take the value of archived data a step further, Mimosa NearPoint 4.0
adds unified and offline information access to email and file system
content allowing information workers to search or browse their archives,
find their relevant content, and get on with the task at hand. New
NearPoint 4.0 Information Access features include:

-- Unified access to email and file system content that is presented in a
familiar Outlook, Outlook Web Access (OWA) or browser user interface.
-- Advanced offline access to archived content through a secure cache.
-- Windows Desktop Search (WDS) integration presents active and archived
content in a single view.
-- Highlighting of query terms in the search results.

Multiple Capture Methods

Mimosa NearPoint 4.0 now provides a generalized framework for multiple
capture methods from a variety of data sources. The framework is designed
to support server, device and network methods for capture of on-premise
and hosted email. In addition to its unique Continuous Application
Shadowing(TM) based on Microsoft's Extensible Storage Engine (ESE), Mimosa
NearPoint 4.0 adds a broad set of additional capture methods for Microsoft
Exchange. Designed to support a wide range of customer configurations,
NearPoint 4.0 enables the richness and flexibility of multiple capture
mechanisms so organizations can best leverage their infrastructure.
NearPoint 4.0's new multiple capture methods include:

-- Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) based Continuous Application
Shadowing(TM) which speeds the log application process by an order of
magnitude.

-- Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) option combined
with Exchange Journaling. Customers can choose this configuration as an
alternative to Continuous Application Shadowing(TM). Exchange 2007 Cluster
Continuous Replication (CCR) passive node capture which enables
organizations to use third-party software for shadowless archives.

-- Extensible framework to add new capture methods in the future using
device snapshots, backup copies, Exchange Web Services (EWS) or Simple Mail
Transfer Protocol (SMTP).

Extended Features for the Large Enterprise

Mimosa NearPoint 4.0 features a host of new features developed for large
enterprise deployments that significantly reduce overall storage
requirements including compression, delta storage for distribution list
changes, compaction of message headers, and enhanced support for
de-duplication devices such as those from Data Domain. NearPoint 4.0 is
also certified for use with VMware and Hyper-V for integration into
virtual datacenter infrastructures. For large organizations that want to
migrate away from legacy archive products into a next-generation archive,
or integrate upstream eDiscovery or records management applications with a
enterprise archive, NearPoint 4.0 also features an enhanced software
development toolkit (SDK) as part of the Open Mimosa Developer Program.
Vendors such as Procedo and TransVault have partnered with Mimosa to build
migration tools to accelerate migrations from first generation archives.
Other eDiscovery and records management vendors including Oracle, PSS, and
Kazeon are leveraging the SDK to apply record management policies and
legal holds in place, without the need to move or copy the original
content.

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, case management, employee supervision,
immediate high fidelity coarse and fine grain 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 enterprise 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 consolidation, and recovery with 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.

Mimosa Systems
3200 Coronado Drive
Santa Clara, California 95054
www.MimosaSystems.com
408.970.9070

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