Mimosa NearPoint RCO Automatically Classifies Email and Files Based on Policy to Determine What Content Should be Retained, Tagged or Disposed
Santa Clara, Calif .– December 16, 2008 –Mimosa Systems, a leader in Live Content Archiving solutions, today announced the new Mimosa NearPoint Retention and Classification Option (RCO) which provides the ability to intelligently and automatically classify and tag archived content. An add-on module to the Mimosa NearPoint™ platform, Mimosa RCO helps organizations lower storage costs and expedite eDiscovery by enabling intelligent, consistent, automated management of user-generated content based on policy.
“Our research suggests that organizations are going to archive over 27,000 petabytes of email over the next four years,” said Brian Babineau, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “Rising storage costs and flat IT budgets drive the need for more efficient archiving management. Data classification solutions like Mimosa NearPoint RCO provide the necessary capability for IT to automate many of the information management tasks that need to be carried out in email archive environments.”
Facing exponential increases in user-generated content, such as email and files, organizations need an effective solution to classify this content to better manage compliance and optimize storage costs. Without an ability to automatically classify content based on business rules, many organizations have instituted time-consuming manual classification processes with inconsistent results that can potentially heighten security breaches and put critical data at risk.
“We attempted to perform massive clean-up campaigns to get more control over our growing email repositories,” John VanNice, IT director of the City of Lenexa. “This manual process was extremely labor intensive and took us away from our critical path. We needed an intelligent, automated way to manage the volume and reduce our management costs. The Mimosa NearPoint RCO will enable us to significantly reduce our storage requirements while assuring that we are retaining all critical information with relevant tags, so it can be easy to search and recover if needed. It's precisely the solution we need to streamline our archiving process.”
Mimosa NearPoint RCO helps to reduce or completely eliminate the need for manual end-user classification of user generated content. The new option uses granular business rules to automatically set retention periods and apply specific tags to content. These tags can drive multiple actions such as marking a piece of content as potentially responsive to an ongoing investigation or legal matter, or explicitly declaring content a business record as part of the company file plan. Delivering faster eDiscovery through more consistent, defensible and executable retention policies, NearPoint RCO:
“To better manage storage costs and expedite eDiscovery, companies are eager to institute more granular classification and retention policies,” said Scott Whitney, vice president of product management for Mimosa Systems. “Mimosa NearPoint RCO gives companies an automated retention management solution that is more consistent, defensible and executable so that they can eliminate the need for manual classification. And, by classifying content, organizations can benefit from dramatic storage cost reduction advantages by eliminating content that is not important to their business.”
Mimosa NearPoint RCO is the latest option available for Mimosa NearPoint, the next- generation content archiving solution for immediate email and file system archiving, eDiscovery, recovery, disaster recovery and storage management in a single solution. For more information, please visit: http://www.mimosasystems.com/html/sol_rco.htm.
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, 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 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, 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, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Japan, China, Australia, and India. For more information, see www.mimosasystems.com.
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