Mimosa Systems Named Platinum Sponsor for Microsoft's Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 Launch Tour

Business Wire, Jan 16, 2007

Announces Vision for Live Content Archiving; Support of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and 2007 Microsoft Office system

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Mimosa Systems[TM], a leader in unified information management solutions for enterprise content, today announced that it has been named one of 12 platinum launch sponsors for the Microsoft "Ready for a New Day" launch event for Windows Vista, Microsoft Office and Exchange Server 2007.

Directly relevant to the Microsoft launch events, Mimosa also announced plans to introduce new solutions later this year for the Mimosa NearPoint for Microsoft Exchange Server information management software platform. The new solutions will enable archiving and classification of 2007 Microsoft Office system documents that reside on servers, desktops and laptops; as well as for documents, portals, Wikis, forms, and other information living on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 servers.

The new NearPoint solutions will represent a major advance in the realization of Mimosa's vision to deliver live content archiving of all forms of enterprise content; including email, documents, blogs and other unstructured and semi-structured content. They also support the company's previously announced solution for archiving, data protection and disaster recovery of information for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.

"Our participation as a Platinum sponsor for the Ready for a New Day tour demonstrates our commitment as a Microsoft Gold Certified partner to providing live content archiving for the majority of the world's unstructured enterprise content," said T.M. Ravi, president and CEO at Mimosa Systems. "The new products from Microsoft provide a significant new way for enterprises to create and share content that Mimosa will help manage, archive and recover. Our event participation, along with today's product development announcements, are designed to enrich and enhance the value delivered by the new 2007 Microsoft Office system."

As a platinum sponsor of the Ready for a New Day launch event, Mimosa Systems will be a featured vendor during the 15-city launch tour that will be held today through February 21. Mimosa Systems is one of 12 vendors selected by Microsoft to be recognized with the Platinum sponsorship distinction. Other platinum sponsors include: HP, Dell, Intel, SAP, Citrix, Commvault, EMC, Hyperion, Quest Software, Unisys and Wipro.

"The Platinum Launch Sponsors for the 'Ready for a New Day' launch event represent Microsoft Gold Certified Partners that are adding tremendous value to the local IT market," said Microsoft US ISV Organization Director Jeffrey Kratz. "We are pleased to have Mimosa Systems among them."

As a Platinum sponsor, Mimosa will be prominently featured at each event on the 15-city tour. In addition to showcasing its next-generation information management solutions, Mimosa will also host a multi-city educational seminar series focused on the processes and technologies involved in live content archiving, and a series of event receptions.

The Mimosa NearPoint Live Content Archiving platform provides full life cycle management for structured and unstructured data, and delivers these valuable benefits:

* Enterprise Compliance - Mimosa NearPoint delivers centralized enterprise-wide policy enforcement for full corporate compliance across email, documents and other content; and integrates with new Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 folder-level retention for consistent policy enforcement.

* Powerful eDiscovery - With NearPoint legal staff can quickly perform large and sophisticated search and discovery of emails, documents, and all forms of unstructured information generated by Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Office system products.

* Secure Self-Service Search - End users enjoy Mimosa NearPoint's intuitive single search interface that provides secure end user access to all current and archived Office and Exchange information located across the enterprise.

* Unified Historical Archive - Administrators can manage all archived content, of any type, in one centralized repository that optimizes single instance storage across multiple applications and information types minimizing storage utilization and dramatically simplifying management.

* Simplified Migration - Whether migrating from legacy Microsoft Exchange Server versions or from file systems and Public Folders to SharePoint, NearPoint's centralized archiving repository facilitates and reduces the time for migration, provides a safety-net during migration, and provides seamless access to all information.

About Mimosa NearPoint

Mimosa NearPoint addresses critical customer requirements around email information archiving, eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, business continuity 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.