Mimosa NearPoint 4.0

Mimosa Systems, Inc. announced Mimosa NearPoint 4.0, the fourth major version of its comprehensive solution for archiving, eDiscovery and business user productivity.

Including new capabilities for expedited eDiscovery in very large enterprise deployments and support for multiple data capture methods, NearPoint 4.0 also offers significant new functionality for today’s information worker that unifies information from all content types into a powerful personal productivity and business decision platform powered by an intelligent archive.
 
“An organisation’s information archive is the living, breathing record of its business,” said Laura DuBois, IDC. “If properly implemented and managed with the right solutions and processes, the enterprise archive can become the pivotal business productivity and decision platform for optimising a business’ intellectual capital for informed business analytics. Customers should definitely evaluate Mimosa NearPoint 4.0 which delivers significant new capabilities for eDiscovery and enterprise business productivity– all key components of tomorrow’s intelligent enterprise archiving platform.”

Expedited Electronic Discovery
Mimosa NearPoint 4.0 decreases the time to identify, collect and preserve electronically stored information with advanced case management and workflow tools that leverages attorney work products between cases. As a result, legal and Compliance teams can work together efficiently to assess the case, determine legal strategies, place item-level litigation holds, and complete pre-reviews or internal audits quickly.

Key eDiscovery features included in NearPoint 4.0 include:

• Unified eDiscovery across email, file system, and SharePoint content.
• Workflow tools to organise and share complex search queries, review list, legal holds and tags across cases or teams.
• Delegate sensitive workloads such as search and pre-review from IT to legal teams.
• Search automation and federation across geographies and domains with granular permissions.
• Scheduled searches to automatically populate a case with new content received into the archive.

Advanced Information Access
for Today’s Enterprise Information Worker
To take the value of archived data a step further, Mimosa NearPoint 4.0 adds unified and offline information access to email and file system content allowing information workers to search or browse their archive, find their relevant content, and get on with the task at hand. New NearPoint 4.0 Information Access features include:

• Unified access to email and file system content that is presented in a familiar Outlook, OWA or browser user interface.
• Advanced offline access to archived content through a secure cache.
• Windows Desktop Search (WDS) integration presents active and archived content in a single view.
• Highlighting of query terms in the search results.

Multiple Capture Methods
Mimosa NearPoint 4.0 now provides a generalised framework for multiple capture methods from a variety of data sources. The framework is designed to support server, device and network methods for capture of on-premise and hosted email. In addition to its unique Continuous Application Shadowing based on Microsoft’s ESE (Extensible Storage Engine), Mimosa NearPoint 4.0 adds a broad set of additional capture methods for Microsoft Exchange. Designed to support a broad range of customer configurations, NearPoint 4.0 enables the richness and flexibility of multiple capture mechanisms so organisations can best leverage their infrastructure. NearPoint 4.0’s new multiple capture method features include:

• Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) based Continuous Application Shadowing which speeds the log application process by an order of magnitude. 
  Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) option combined with Exchange Journaling. Customers can choose this configuration as an alternative to Continuous Application Shadowing. Exchange 2007 Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) passive node capture which enables organisations to use third-party software for shadowless archives.
• Extensible framework to add capture methods in the future using device snapshots, backup copies, Exchange Web Services (EWS) and Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP).

Extended Features for the Large Enterprise
Mimosa NearPoint 4.0 features a host of new features developed for large enterprise deployments that significantly reduce overall storage requirements including compression, delta storage for distribution list changes, compaction of message headers, and enhanced support for de-duplication devices such as those from Data Domain. NearPoint 4.0 is also certified for use with VMware and Hyper-V for integration into virtual datacenter infrastructures. For large organisations that want to migrate away from legacy archive products into a next-generation archive, or integrate upstream eDiscovery or records management applications with a enterprise archive, NearPoint 4.0 also features an enhanced software development toolkit (SDK) as part of the Open Mimosa Developer Program. Vendors such as Procedo and TransVault have partnered with Mimosa to build migration tools to accelerate migrations from first generation archives. Other eDiscovery and records management vendors including Oracle, PSS, and Kazeon are leveraging the SDK to apply record management policies and legal holds in place, without the need to move or copy the original content.
 
About Mimosa NearPoint
Mimosa NearPoint addresses critical customer requirements around archiving, eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, business continuity, and storage optimisation in a unified solution. Mimosa NearPoint proactively captures email, files, SharePoint content and instant messages; and provides legal search workflow, case management, employee supervision, immediate high fidelity coarse and fine grain recovery, disaster recovery, and self-service search and access in one solution. By leveraging cost-effective storage and advanced classification rules, NearPoint also optimises content storage and reduces overall infrastructure costs.