Mirapoint Simplifies Disaster Recovery for Enterprise Email With New Remote Site Replication Solution

Business Wire, April 2, 2007

Solution Provides Remote Replication to Ensure Business Continuity

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Mirapoint, the secure messaging expert, today introduced the Mirapoint Remote Site Replication (RSR) solution designed to provide enterprises and higher educational organizations with a proactive disaster recovery solution for protecting critical email. RSR provides continuous access to email and remotely replicates a copy of all business critical email activity. As a result, organizations can avoid downtime protect the integrity of their data, and store historical data for regulatory and compliance requirements. RSR easily deploys with Mirapoint's mail and security appliances and provides enterprises with a cost effective solution to ensure business continuity.

According to David Hill, CEO of Mesabi Group and author of the 2007 report Data Protection: Adapting to the Sea Change, "Depending on the level of severity, without a proactive disaster recovery solution in place, the ability of processes and people to work successfully is jeopardized, if not impossible. Mirapoint's approach to disaster recovery reduces downtime and ensures that data is always available. As a result, businesses can eliminate disaster recovery vulnerabilities and maintain business continuity."

"Deploying a disaster recovery solution is essential for enterprises today," said Barry Ariko, CEO, Mirapoint. "Mirapoint is committed to providing our customers with a complete email infrastructure solution that allows them to eliminate risk and protect the integrity of their email assets. Mirapoint's RSR ensures that a copy of critical email is available remotely allowing enterprises to minimize downtime and maintain business continuity in case disaster strikes."

Disaster Recovery for Enterprise Email

A natural disaster such as a hurricane, earthquake or fire, or more mundane failures such as power, air conditioning, or human error can be damaging for businesses, resulting in loss of intellectual property and revenue. Email is mission critical for conducting business today and can be vulnerable in event of a disaster. Without email most businesses would come to a grinding halt. With the increasing importance of email, even the slightest disruption in service can have significant financial impact on a business. Gartner predicts that by the end of 2007, 75 percent of Global 2000 companies will have emergency systems for employee communication as part of disaster recovery plans in the event of a crisis. As a mission critical part of an organization's communication infrastructure, disaster recovery for email systems must be a standard requirement rather than an afterthought.

A Complete Messaging and Disaster Recovery Solution

Mirapoint's RSR provides businesses with the security of a dual-site system at a very affordable price. RSR ensures that the services, along with a copy of email, calendaring and contact data is available at a remote location so that recovery can happen with minimal downtime. RSR adds to an already broad range of available Mirapoint business continuity solutions, ranging from backups to SAN snap shots to hot-spare appliances to mail store clusters.

Mirapoint's Message Server provides a standards-based platform that intelligently serves, secures and manages messages and schedules with multi-mode client access. Message Server appliances scale to support tens of thousands of users and their ever-expanding mailboxes. Mirapoint Message Server also offers carrier-class, 99.999 percent uptime reliability and the industry's lowest total cost of ownership.

"Mirapoint provides the peace of mind we were looking for in a disaster recovery solution," said, said Marc Palano, director of IT for ITW. "We know that if anything happens, planned for or unplanned, we have the right solution in place to ensure we do not experience any downtime."

Pricing and Availability

The Remote Site Replication solution is an add-on software license to Mirapoint's Message Server and is priced starting at $15,000.00 and available today. For more information, visit www.mirapoint.com/RSR.> About Mirapoint

Founded in 1997, Mirapoint is the market leader in appliance-based solutions for secure message networks in enterprise, service provider, and education organizations, with more than 115 million mailboxes served and secured worldwide. Customers use Mirapoint appliances to build the messaging infrastructure that intelligently serves, secures and manages email. Mirapoint is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. For more information on Mirapoint, visit its Web site at www.mirapoint.com.