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MIMOSA SYSTEMS APPOINTS FORMER SYMANTEC VETERAN SCOTT WHITNEY AS VICE PRESIDENT OF PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

Market Demand for a New Class of Content Archiving Attracts Industry Veteran to Drive Innovation to Deliver Next-Generation Archiving Solutions

Santa Clara, Calif., February 12, 2008 – Mimosa Systems, a leader in Live Content Archiving solutions, today announced the appointment of former Symantec executive, Scott Whitney, as vice president of product management. Strong demand for a new generation of archiving solutions has fueled the company's ability to attract top talent like Whitney. The addition of Whitney to the management team continues to strengthen Mimosa's ability to deliver best-of-breed content archiving products that address critical customer requirements for integrated content archiving, eDiscovery, regulatory compliance and business continuity.

Whitney brings more than 15 years of operations and software leadership experience in the enterprise and consumer markets to his new position at Mimosa. In his new role, Whitney will leverage his product management expertise to translate customer and partner challenges into product requirements that advance Mimosa solutions for integrated content archiving and governance.

Leadership Through Innovation – The Mimosa Difference
Leading industry analysts predict enormous growth in content archiving as organizations seek greater information immediacy, discovery and business continuity of their email repositories. Radicati Group estimates the email archiving market, which was $796 million by year-end 2006, will grow to $7.8 billion by 2010, illustrating the significantly escalating demand for products in this space. 

Since its inception, Mimosa Systems has demonstrated technology excellence and product leadership with content archiving products that address critical information requirements. In 2005, Mimosa changed the email archiving landscape with the ground-breaking architecture of Mimosa™ NearPoint™, based on transaction log shipping to allow for comprehensive and seamless content and metadata collection. Last year, Mimosa introduced grid computing to Microsoft® Exchange email archiving environments, allowing for virtually unlimited scalability across the largest of enterprise environments. These and other product success milestones are the result of Mimosa leading through continuous innovation to deliver the industry's strongest archiving-based platform, along with best-in-class applications for content archiving, eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, data protection, disaster recovery and storage optimization.

“Market demand for a new era of content archiving and unstructured information is being driven by stringent compliance and legal regulations,” said T.M. Ravi, president and CEO of Mimosa Systems. “Enterprises are under immense pressure to ensure they can produce critical information in a timely fashion when facing corporate governance and legal discovery requirements. This requires fundamental changes in the litigation readiness and response strategies of corporations and counsel. Mimosa is committed to delivering the most advanced content archiving solutions to meet these needs. I am pleased to have Scott Whitney on board as he will play an instrumental role in driving Mimosa's next-generation live content archiving products that manage a wide range of electronic documents and unified communications including emails, files, calendar information, text and instant messages for rapid litigation discovery, regulatory compliance and business continuity.”

Prior to joining Mimosa, Whitney served at Symantec Corporation on the product management team of Enterprise Vault, an integrated content archive and eDiscovery software business. Before joining Symantec, Whitney led the product management team at Verity, which produced market-leading enterprise search and classification technology. Prior to serving at Verity, he led the product management team at Inktomi where he managed Ultraseek, the industry's first enterprise search product that could be downloaded and installed in less than 30 minutes.

“I am delighted to be on board with such a talented company whose vision, execution and product strategy are setting the standard for the content archiving market,” said Scott Whitney. “I look forward to playing an integral role within Mimosa to deliver advanced content archiving solutions for our customers and partners by driving product innovation across our portfolio of solutions.”

About Mimosa NearPoint
Mimosa™ NearPoint™ for Microsoft® Exchange Server addresses critical customer requirements around email information archiving, eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, business continuity, and storage optimization. Mimosa NearPoint provides legal search workflow, immediate mailbox and message recovery, disaster recovery, email archiving, and self-service search and access in one solution. By leveraging cost-effective storage, NearPoint also optimizes email storage and reduces overall infrastructure costs.

About Mimosa
Mimosa Systems, Inc. delivers next-generation information management solutions for information immediacy, discovery, and continuity. Mimosa NearPoint for Microsoft Exchange Server is the industry's most comprehensive information management software solution for Microsoft Exchange, unifying email archiving, recovery, and storage management. With options for eDiscovery and disaster recovery, NearPoint ensures litigation readiness and email continuity while leveraging cost-effective disk technologies to optimize email storage growth. Mimosa is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, recognized for its competencies in networking infrastructure solutions, ISV/software solutions, and advanced infrastructure solutions. Mimosa is a privately held company whose investors include August Capital, Clearstone Venture Partners, Dot Edu Ventures, JAFCO Ventures, and Mayfield Fund. Mimosa was founded in 2003 and is based in Santa Clara, California, with offices in Germany, the United Kingdom and India. For more information, see www.MimosaSystems.com.

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