New Mimosa NearPoint Solution Expedites eDiscovery, Adds Multiple Capture Methods, and Provides End-users Offline Access to Archived Content
Santa Clara, Calif. – June 30, 2009 – Mimosa Systems, the leader in next-generation email, file and SharePoint archiving solutions, today announced Mimosa NearPoint™ 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 leverages 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:
“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:
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™ 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:
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.
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