Migration Program to Move Legacy Email Archives to Mimosa NearPoint

Mimosa Systems announced a new turn-key migration program for customers that are facing the limitations of their first-generation email archiving solution and want to move to Mimosa NearPoint. Mimosa NearPoint is the industry’s most comprehensive unstructured information management software for email, files, and instant messages – enabling archiving, eDiscovery, storage management, and recovery in a unified solution. The new ‘Move to Mimosa’ Legacy Migration Program enables customers of first-generation archiving products to seamlessly upgrade to the next-generation Mimosa NearPoint platform, and combines bundled migration services at a significant promotional discount.

For the Cologne Germany-based transportation and logistics company, Häfen und Güterverkehr Köln AG, its legacy email archiving solution from Symantec was not delivering the protection they required for their employees. “We needed to ensure that our email data was both protected and searchable without fail,” said Sebastian Schmitz, IT administrator, Häfen und Güterverkehr Köln AG. “After already working with our existing solution, we opted to switch to Mimosa NearPoint. Its comprehensive features, including disaster recovery right out of the box, were everything we were looking for in an archiving product. Switching was a clear choice and we were up and running with zero production impact to our Exchange environment.”

“Legato, a first-generation email archiving solution, was not able to meet our expanding requirements for electronic discovery, end-user search and disaster recovery,” said Douglas Blackburn, email administrator, Orange County Sheriff Department. “After hearing about Mimosa NearPoint we took a closer look and found that it truly was a next-generation solution that could address all of our current and future requirements in a unified solution. Its self-service search is very powerful and because it doesn’t require journaling or agents on our Exchange Server it never impacts production performance like our old solution did. It’s simply the best choice for our organization when it comes to comprehensive email archiving.”

The ‘Move to Mimosa’ Legacy Migration Program
Customers of legacy archiving products face challenges due to the lack of performance and scalability, impact on Exchange servers, and high cost of operations. They are dissatisfied because of gaps between actual performance and what they were promised, the staleness of the technology, and feature limitations that they experience. The ‘Move to Mimosa’ Legacy Migration Program has been designed to help customers quickly embrace the value of today’s most powerful next-generation email and file archiving solution, Mimosa NearPoint. With aggressive pricing and complimentary services, the migration program will enable any organization to jump-start a more comprehensive archiving strategy without downtime.

The program includes:

A 50 percent license discount on Mimosa NearPoint until the end of June 2009 for customers replacing a first-generation archiving solution. Mimosa NearPoint includes:

• Next generation archiving of email, instant messages, public folders, calendars, and contacts with deep integration with Exchange and Outlook
• Flexible and granular retention management
• Intuitive and powerful eDiscovery
• Seamless end-user search and browse of archived email
• Instant search and access to email that has been protected, archived and extended via a standard Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Web Access user interface
• Integrated data protection and recovery for full database recovery, mailbox recovery and individual message restores
• Unprecedented scalability and availability based on grid architecture that leverages commodity servers and storage
• Zero footprint on production Exchange Servers of desktops

Free Migration Strategy and Solution Design
from Mimosa Professional Services
to transparently migrate archived content
into Mimosa NearPoint.
Mimosa is working with ‘Mimosa Certified Partners’ worldwide that have developed methodologies and practices for seamless upgrade and transparent migration with zero downtime. These partners have core expertise in email and file archiving and work with customers to export content from legacy archives and import that content into the NearPoint archive.

Key areas of focus include:

• Strategy for switching and migration based on customers use of legacy archiving and environment
• Efficient migration of large volumes of contents including any available metadata and context
• Address legacy stubbed content in a structured manner that does not result in temporary storage growth

“As a value added solution provider of email archiving solutions, we commonly see customers who implemented a first-generation email archiving solution which is no longer meeting their needs,” stated David Klein, CEO of Instant InfoSystems, an Elite Partner of Mimosa Systems. “For those companies,” continues Klein, “the ‘Move to Mimosa’ program offers an ideal opportunity to seamlessly migrate to Mimosa’s next-generation NearPoint platform in a manner which is both cost effective and protective of the company’s existing archived content.”

“Mimosa’s premiere content archiving solution in combination with Procedo’s leading data archive migration software will drive immediate value for customers who need to seamlessly transition from their legacy solutions,” said Joe Kvidera, CEO of Procedo. “Customers can no longer afford to deal with the complexity and performance issues associated with first-generation offerings.  With Mimosa NearPoint customers have the benefit of a comprehensive information management offering enabling archiving, eDiscovery, storage management, and recovery in a unified solution.”

“We are pleased to partner with Mimosa Systems to deliver comprehensive content archiving solutions that leap frog first-generation offerings," said Antoine Berthier, CEO of Optrium, leader in archiving solutions integration. “With Mimosa we will deliver a new breed of archiving solutions and bundled services to provide mutual customers with a seamless migration path from legacy solutions with zero impact on their production environment.”

“We are facing more and more demand from customers who want to replace their archiving solutions from companies including Autonomy, Symantec, EMC, and Quest and eliminate the pain, cost and risk they have experienced with legacy email archiving solutions,” said Christophe Culine, senior vice president of worldwide sales, Mimosa Systems. “To help, we have introduced our ‘Move to Mimosa’ Legacy Migration Program with aggressive pricing and packaged services so that customers can quickly benefit from the true value of a next-generation archiving solution like Mimosa NearPoint for content archiving, eDiscovery, business continuity and storage consolidation.”