One of California’s Fastest Growing Counties Standardizes on Mimosa™ NearPoint™ Providing Rapid eDiscovery in Under 30 Minutes and Shrinking Exchange Storage Usage by 40 Percent
Santa Clara, Calif. – February 26, 2008 – Mimosa Systems, a leader in Live Content Archiving solutions, today announced that Madera County of California has deployed the next-generation Mimosa NearPoint for Microsoft® Exchange Server for rapid eDiscovery, retention, protection and recovery of its vital email data. Madera County, located in the heart of the agricultural belt in the Central Valley is one of California 's fastest growing counties.
According to the State of California, Employment Development Department, Labor Market Information Division, the county of Madera's population is projected to grow over 150 percent by the year 2020. Manufacturing, services, and government are the key industries that will provide most of the jobs in Madera's future economy and the County of Madera continues to scale its infrastructure to meet increased growth and demand.
To meet these challenges, Madera County needed a comprehensive archiving solution for rapid eDiscovery of records, business continuity and exchange storage optimization. The growing population coupled with expanded government services was generating huge volumes of email. This made rapid discovery nearly impossible and exchange storage was exceeding its' threshold impacting both system and end-user performance.
“We were completely out of storage space on our Exchange Server, and with no user policies and no mailbox quotas in place, we had no way to get storage growth under control,” said Information System Supervisor for the County of Madera, Bruce Lorimer. “My users were using Exchange as a file system to store all their email attachments, which was helping them work more efficiently, but it was causing a major storage problem on Exchange. “NearPoint fulfilled everything I was told it would do and more including rapid eDiscovery, storage optimization and seamless disaster recovery in a single solution.”
Madera County standardized on Mimosa NearPoint to address their storage, retention and discovery issues and has become an invaluable eDiscovery tool, allowing IT to respond quickly and easily to requests for public records in minutes versus days and weeks . In addition, the County has seamlessly reduced mailbox size to only email that is less than 90 days old while shrinking Exchange storage usage by 40 percent, without impacting users' productivity. With fingertip search and browse, users are now empowered to quickly access older email with a single click on the ‘Mimosa Archive Folder' eliminating the need for IT intervention or user training saving both time and resources.
Key Mimosa NearPoint features that were particularly important to the City of Madera include:
"Mimosa continues to see significant growth in the government sector and we are pleased to add the County of Madera to our growing roster,” said T.M. Ravi, CEO of Mimosa Systems. “Madera County serves as a model for other growing municipalities as they scale to meet rapid growth and solve their eDiscovery, disclosure, data retention and protection challenges now and in the future."
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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