Mimosa and Nexsan Partner

Mimosa Systems and
Nexsan Technologies have partnered to provide an integrated, cost-effective
solution featuring next-generation, single-instance information storage
with integrity checking and full audit logging. The partnership will
focus on delivering advanced archiving solutions that will enable
organizations to create and enforce retention and disposition policies
to content such as email, instant messaging, and files while providing
a free text search index for content related to legal, regulatory, or
compliance issues.

Meeting compliance and litigation
requirements is an overwhelming challenge for companies that create and
manage large volumes of electronically stored information (ESI). All
too often, ESI is stored on multiple media across an organization, with
oceans of data stored on non-secured, difficult-to-search backup tapes.
This situation puts the organization at risk and creates countless
management headaches. As compliance regulations continue to grow in
volume and complexity, organizations around the world need solutions
that help them centralize retention policies while providing fast,
secure and cost-effective eDiscovery throughout the information
lifecycle. In fact, Forrester Research predicts that eDiscovery
spending “will grow to more than $4.8 billion by 2011 as enterprises
continue to prepare for electronic discovery.”

Together,
Mimosa Systems and Nexsan are bringing to market the industry’s most
comprehensive archiving and storage solutions for retention management
and eDiscovery in a cost-effective, intelligent, disk-based system.
Mimosa and Nexsan plan to target the specific eDiscovery challenges
faced by companies that create and manage ESI to meet legal
obligations. Nexsan’s Assureon® disk-based archiving solution offers
WORM (write once, read many) functionality, which ensures that stored
information cannot be inadvertently or purposely altered— a critical
component of compliance policy.

Mimosa NearPoint for
Microsoft Exchange Server addresses critical customer requirements for
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.

Nexsan’s Assureon secure storage
architecture delivers a comprehensive array of intelligent features
including constant monitoring of file integrity, lifecycle management,
file authentication, missing file alerts, and support for remote
replication, along with optional file-level encryption. The Nexsan
solution provides secure protection and immediate access to archived
content at a fraction of the cost of comparable legacy solutions.

“Partnering
with Nexsan will provide our customers with intelligent, secure,
cost-effective information storage solutions. NearPoint has been
integrated with Nexsan technology to archive email, IM and file system
content to Assureon devices enforcing retention policies, while
providing advanced tools to search and cull-down archived content to
quickly locate content relevant to a legal matter,” said Scott Whitney,
vice president of product management, Mimosa Systems. “We look forward
to working with Nexsan, which has earned its reputation as a leading
provider of intelligent, cost-effective, disk-based storage.”

“Our
partnership with Mimosa will allow us to offer our
customers robust eDiscovery capabilities that embody the idea of
storing information based on its value rather than the application that
created it,” said Bob Woolery, senior vice president, Nexsan
Corporation. “This relationship provides added value to our customers
on this critical business issue.”

Nexsan Technologies Corp.

Mimosa
Systems, Inc.