Archiving, eDiscovery, Recovery, & Storage Management
Mimosa NearPoint™ is a next generation content archiving solution for immediate email and file system archiving, eDiscovery, recovery, disaster recovery and storage management in a single solution. The NearPoint software solution for email archiving is based on standard Microsoft® technologies, and runs on standard Intel servers. It is an application-intelligent solution providing deep integration with Exchange and Outlook. Deployment is effortless as there is zero foot print on the Exchange Servers or desktops. Administrators perform immediate restores and configure policies using the standard Microsoft Management Console. Mimosa provides users and auditors instant search and access to email that has been protected, archived, and extended via a standard Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Web Access user interface.
Key Benefits
- NearPoint performs continuous capture of Exchange data, metadata, and context, including all email, folders, deletions, calendars, contacts, notes, tasks, and more.
- Mimosa NearPoint minimizes risks and costs associated with legal discovery through its comprehensive eDiscovery solution for Exchange.
- NearPoint protects against data loss and allows local recovery of Exchange information stores, mailboxes, and individual messages and disaster recovery of Exchange data to a standby Exchange Server.
- NearPoint optimizes Exchange mailbox storage by reducing the load attachments put on Exchange. Offline email stored in PST files can be easily migrated into the NearPoint archive.
- NearPoint Deployment Advantage™ means that zero agents on Exchange Server and zero client software are needed for advanced search and archive access.
- NearPoint streamlines data migration from legacy Exchange versions, including 5.5, 2000, and 2003, to Exchange 2007.
Continuous Application Shadowing
Mimosa NearPoint incorporates an innovative data capture method called Continuous Application Shadowing™. Continuous Application Shadowing captures Exchange log files the instant they are committed to disk and stores them “off-host” on NearPoint. Application Shadowing is an application-intelligent process and blocks corruption from the backup copy. All email content extracted from the log files is indexed and stored with single-instance storage. Application Shadowing captures complete Exchange mailbox information, as well as email stored offline in PST files and all email content found in public folders—a major advantage for eDiscovery and Exchange recovery.
Multi-Node Grid Architecture
Mimosa NearPoint's Multi-Node Grid Architecture is the most scalable architecture in the email archive industry and is provided standard in NearPoint. Utilizing a superscalar or superpipelined grid, NearPoint can support systems ranging from 100 mailboxes to tens of thousands of mailboxes in a single system. A hot-plug modular architecture allows servers and storage to be added or taken away as required to match performance challenges, without breaking the logical consistency of the archive information—an important capability for eDiscovery. Archive storage capacity grows on demand automatically, and default configuration and wizard-driven menus simplify deployment and management.
eDiscovery
Mimosa NearPoint minimizes risks associated with email and file system litigation readiness with a comprehensive eDiscovery solution, going beyond basic email to include every aspect of a mailbox—including public folders, offline PST files, calendars, contacts, notes, and more. Using the NearPoint Self-Service Access search tools available in Outlook and OWA, end users and auditors can quickly search complete archive information. For advanced legal discovery and workflow, the NearPoint eDiscovery Option is available. Mimosa NearPoint speeds legal discovery and increases search accuracy by providing a single location to search all current and historical email information.
Exchange Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
Mimosa NearPoint performs continuous data protection for Exchange data and supports rapid recovery of Exchange at all levels, including automated disaster recovery, full database recovery, mailbox recovery, and individual message restores. Exchange administrators perform database and mailbox recoveries using the NearPoint administrator console, while individual message restores are performed by users themselves via Outlook. The NearPoint DR Option supports automated disaster recovery and service recovery for Exchange and the archive.
Storage Management and PST Archiving
Using NearPoint, administrators define policies that allow mailboxes on Exchange Servers to be extended to the NearPoint server using parameters such as message size, age, and mailbox quota. Online and offline users have complete access to extended messages as they would normally through Outlook and OWA. For managing offline email contained in PST files, the NearPoint PST Archiving Option crawls and uploads PST files to the NearPoint archive, where they are centrally managed and searched for email discovery. PST files can be automatically deleted after they are uploaded to the archive or remain as files managed by NearPoint.
Contact Mimosa Systems
Call us at 408-970-9070 to learn how NearPoint can provide you the next-generation email archiving solution for managing all your Exchange data.
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