Leading Law Firm Enables Powerful eDiscovery and Dramatically Reduces Email Storage with Mimosa NearPoint; Kirton & McConkie Uses Mimosa NearPoint to Reduce Email Storage by 84%

Business Wire, August 16, 2006

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Mimosa Systems(TM), a leader in unified information management solutions for enterprise content, today announced that the leading Salt Lake City law firm, Kirton & McConkie, has selected Mimosa NearPoint(TM) for Microsoft(R) Exchange Server to address their email archiving, self-service eDiscovery and mailbox management requirements.

For attorneys and additional support staff at the law offices of Kirton & McConkie, email is the most important record of business. The high-profile law firm uses email as a primary method to communicate with internal staff, clients, investigators and others essential to their cases. As a result, emails have become valuable case records that require immediate and complete access in the event of a detailed legal discovery request. With Mimosa NearPoint's intuitive eDiscovery functionality, staff auditors work collaboratively to easily discover any email communication they require and even recreate point-in-time communications between individuals when necessary.

"With NearPoint's eDiscovery and compliance functionality, we can now empower our internal auditors to easily and quickly conduct granular searches on their own, alleviating the burden on our IT staff while preserving individuals' privacy," said Joel Woodall, network administrator, Kirton & McConkie. "Speed and ease of complex searches across mailboxes over time translates into dramatic cost savings. With NearPoint's unique full data capture methodology, we are confident that our eDiscovery processes are comprehensive."

Before Mimosa NearPoint, Kirton & McConkie's email mailboxes continued to grow at rapid rates and storage management quickly became a significant challenge. Not only were the backup windows increasing, but the time to recover in the event of a disaster would be unacceptable. Kirton & McConkie couldn't reduce email services, but at the same time they needed to regain control over their email server's storage requirements while ensuring that all of its data remained secure and protected.

"Mimosa NearPoint became a critical necessity as we had adopted a 'save everything' email policy, creating 'super-sized' mailboxes. Our partners and staff are experiencing the benefits of limitless mailboxes while our Exchange storage has been reduced by 84% of its original size," said Woodall.

Mimosa NearPoint quickly became the solution of choice for Kirton & McConkie based on the following key advantages:

--Advanced eDiscovery Workflow: NearPoint gives Kirton & McConkie auditors the ability to collaborate on investigations and provides access to a complete view of email information, allowing for easy reconstruction of complex events and user behavior for litigation support and forensics.

--Mailbox Management: The NearPoint Mailbox Extension feature allows Kirton & McConkie to define mailbox extension policies that stub messages in Exchange reducing storage requirements on the Exchange Server while still giving users seamless access to the email. As a result, NearPoint was immediately able to reduce the law firm's email database size from 120GB to 20GB.

--PST File Elimination: NearPoint has eliminated the need to impose mailbox quotas on any user and in turn, it eradicates PST files which further reduces storage demands on desktops and file servers while protecting against the common problem of PST file corruption.

--Agent-less Architecture: NearPoint does not require agents on either the Exchange Server or user desktops which ensures that granular email data protection comes without any impact to the law firm's Exchange Server performance.

"Before Mimosa NearPoint the risk of losing pertinent email information was oppressive," said Woodall. "Managing email data and storage while maintaining seamless access to archived information had become a mission-critical task for our IT services team. Now, with NearPoint I have true peace of mind because I have confidence that our valuable data is secure, simple to access and easy to manage."

About Mimosa NearPoint

Mimosa NearPoint addresses critical customer requirements around email information archiving, eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, data protection, disaster recovery and storage optimization. Mimosa NearPoint provides 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 e-mail storage and reduces overall infrastructure costs.

About Kirton & McConkie

As one of Utah's largest law firms, Kirton & McConkie provides its clients with a full range of legal services both in the United States and internationally. Specifically, the firm has substantial practices in corporate, corporate taxation, finance, banking, and lender liability; intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, and copyrights; creditor rights and bankruptcy, construction, real estate, real estate finance, and land use and development; healthcare and medical malpractice defense litigation, insurance defense litigation, business litigation, environmental, international and immigration, probate and estate planning, including wills and trusts, legislation and lobbying, workers' compensation, employment and labor relations; public utilities and administrative law; pension and profit-sharing plans; mergers and acquisitions, private and public offerings, and constitutional, religious and appellate law. The firm takes pride in providing quality legal work at a reasonable price to all of its clients, whether they are individuals, small businesses, large corporations, or multinational institutions. Kirton & McConkie has received the highest rating for professional and ethical standards by Martindale-Hubbell, and is listed in the prestigious Bar Register in its list of "preeminent law firms" in the United States.