City of Chula Vista Dramatically Reduces Exchange Storage Requirements With Mimosa Systems' Live Content Archiving Solution.

One of the Nation's Fastest Growing Cities Relies on Mimosa NearPoint to Assure Retention & Recovery for Critical Email Data and Improve Exchange Storage Performance

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Mimosa Systems[TM], a leader in Live Content Archiving solutions, today announced that the City of Chula Vista, Calif., one of the nation's fastest growing cities, has deployed the next-generation Mimosa NearPoint[TM] for Microsoft[R] Exchange Server to assure the retention, protection and recovery of its vital email data.

The City of Chula Vista, with a population approaching 225,000, is San Diego County's second largest city. The majority of the city's business applications require email and as such Microsoft Exchange has become a vital part of Chula Vista's communications infrastructure.

With an increasing volume of email, Chula Vista city employees and elected officials were experiencing significant email performance degradation as users frequently sent large documents and PowerPoint presentation files. And, even though the city's IT organization had implemented a three month email retention policy to conserve server storage resources, users commonly saved all their historical emails in local .PST files which started to experience corruption and monopolized costly desktop storage space.

"We have some users that simply don't delete any emails," said Pat Garcia, MIS administrator at the City of Chula Vista. "Large mailboxes cause major operational problems. After evaluating a number of solutions, we selected Mimosa NearPoint for its comprehensive functionality and powerful architecture that places no load on the production Exchange system. Now, with Mimosa NearPoint, users with virtual mailboxes of 1.5GB just take up 115MB on our Exchange servers. Moreover all of our users have been impressed with the overall increase in our Exchange server performance."

Key Mimosa NearPoint features that were particularly important to the City of Chula Vista include:

* Automated Exchange Storage Management: Mimosa NearPoint has reduced the city's storage requirements by moving attachments, based on policies of age and size, to the NearPoint server. The NearPoint Mailbox Extension feature allows Chula Vista's IT staff to define policies that stub attachments in Exchange while still giving users seamless access to the email.

* Simple "One-Click" Recovery: Mimosa NearPoint gives the City of Chula Vista continuous protection of all its Exchange information. NearPoint preserves all Exchange information disk and allows users to restore individual messages themselves via Outlook and allows Admins to restore complete mailboxes and databases with simple "one-click" operations.

"Mimosa NearPoint has been particularly useful in recovering email to and from former city council members that are valuable as city records," stated Garcia. "Using NearPoint, these emails were fast and easy to retrieve. There's nothing better than a product that can make a quick, positive impact on your organization, while making you look like a hero. Mimosa NearPoint has been a true lifesaver."

About Mimosa NearPoint

Mimosa NearPoint addresses critical customer requirements around email information archiving, eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, data protection, disaster recovery 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.

About Mimosa

Mimosa Systems, Inc. delivers next-generation information management solutions for information immediacy, discovery and continuity. Mimosa NearPoint[TM] for Microsoft[R] Exchange Server is the industry's most comprehensive information management software solution for Microsoft Exchange, unifying email archiving, recovery and storage optimization. NearPoint assures email continuity and regulatory compliance, while leveraging cost-effective disk technologies to optimize email storage growth. Mimosa is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner recognized for its competencies in Networking Infrastructure Solutions, ISV Software Solutions, and Information Worker. Mimosa is a privately held company whose investors include August Capital, Clearstone Venture Partners, Dot Edu Ventures, JAFCO Ventures and Mayfield Fund. Mimosa was founded in 2003 and is based in Santa Clara, California and Pune, India. For more information see www.MimosaSystems.com.

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