News | March 18, 2009

Mimosa Extends Relationship With Microsoft To Deliver Enhanced Value For Office SharePoint Server 2007 Users

Mimosa Systems, a leader in next-generation email and file archiving solutions, recently announced that it has extended its enterprise email and file archiving solution, Mimosa NearPoint, to offer complete content archiving, data protection and eDiscovery support for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Mimosa NearPoint for Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides the industry with a unique content archive solution that delivers enhanced information management capabilities to address critical requirements for storage cost optimization, recovery, information access, and eDiscovery in a single offering.

The dramatic adoption and widespread proliferation of Office SharePoint Server 2007 sites is creating a critical challenge for enterprises trying to protect content, control storage costs, and preserve and search vital content repositories in the face of stringent discovery requirements. According to Microsoft, Office SharePoint Server 2007 has seen a year-over-year growth of 35 percent, with 100 million licensed seats shipped to more than 17,000 customers since its introduction.

As organizations continue to generate large volumes of mission-critical information on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, the need to archive, protect and enable eDiscovery on this data becomes increasingly important. Mimosa NearPoint for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 transforms this data into a comprehensive, intelligent archive to streamline information management and discovery processes while substantially lowering storage costs.

"Government and commercial organizations are increasingly challenged with efficiently managing the tremendous quantity of email, documents and file information created by today's information workers," said Greg Urquhart, General Manager, Microsoft US National SI & ISV Partners. "Our customers are looking for solutions that will help ensure their systems are always meeting compliance regulations and eDiscovery obligations across all records of business. Mimosa NearPoint's next generation archiving architecture supports Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with new levels of operational efficiency, information reliability and compliance for today's evolving business needs."

"Through our partnership with Microsoft, Mimosa continues to raise the bar by which all other archiving vendors are measured," said Scott Whitney, Vice President Product Management, Mimosa Systems. "The addition of support for Office SharePoint Server 2007 by Mimosa NearPoint gives joint customers the most comprehensive archiving and protection solution to manage email, files, and Office SharePoint Server 2007 content in a single, unified repository. For organizational requirements to affordably retain, recover and discover data across the enterprise, this is a must-have solution."

About Mimosa NearPoint
Mimosa NearPoint addresses critical customer requirements around email archiving, e-Discovery, regulatory compliance, business continuity, and storage optimization in a unified solution. Mimosa NearPoint proactively captures email, files, Office SharePoint Server 2007 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 Office SharePoint Server 2007 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, e-Discovery, 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.

SOURCE: Mimosa Systems