Leading U.S. Homebuilder Solves Compliance Needs; Improves Operational Efficiency with Mimosa Email Archiving Solution.

Brookfield Homes Deploys Mimosa NearPoint Live Content Archiving Solution To Streamline Processes for Retaining Emails and Improving Overall Email System Performance

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Mimosa Systems[TM], a leading provider of Live Content Archiving solutions, today announced that Brookfield Homes, one of America's largest home builders, has deployed the Mimosa NearPoint(TM) for Microsoft Exchange Server email archiving solution to streamline its processes for retaining emails for regulatory compliance, while improving overall management and efficiency of its Microsoft Exchange email system.

Brookfield Homes is one of America's Top 25 residential homebuilders and land developers, creating homes and developing land in master-planned communities and infill locations located across California and the Washington DC metro area. The company designs, constructs and markets award-winning single-family and multi-family homes primarily to move-up and luxury homebuyers.

Brookfield Homes initially deployed the Mimosa NearPoint archiving solution to comply with several government regulations, including Sarbanes-Oxley, which stipulates preserving email for five years. In addition, the company also wanted a solution that would help reduce overall storage of emails and reduce the time required to backup the email system.

"For preserving email and managing it with retention policies, the native features of Microsoft Exchange were not enough," said Chris Formes, IT manager, at Brookfield Homes. "Mimosa NearPoint allows us to archive email for compliance for all employees without requiring Exchange journaling. The Mimosa solution eliminated the need to re-provision production Exchange systems with additional CPU, memory and storage that is required by first generation journaling-based archiving solutions. Another benefit of not journaling is we didn't have to move mailboxes into a single Exchange Store."

Prior to deploying the Mimosa solution, full backups of the Brookfield email system were performed daily, with completion times exceeding the backup window. The company also performed brick-level backups, a specialized form of Exchange backup geared for individual mailbox and message level recovery, which took more than 40 hours to compete.

"As a result of deploying Mimosa NearPoint, which took less than one day, we have eliminated brick-level backups all together," added Formes. "Using NearPoint's Mailbox Extension feature with just a two-year limit setting, we have initially reduced overall storage of our production Exchange server by 25 percent. In the future, we plan on reducing the time period limit for archiving emails to a more-aggressive 12 month period, which we expect will further reclaim storage capacity, while also reducing the time to complete full backups to less than two hours."

Important features in Brookfield Homes selection of Mimosa NearPoint included:

* Next-Generation Architecture: Mimosa NearPoint's unique architecture does not require journaling or any agents on either the Exchange Server or user desktops. This simplified Brookfield Homes' deployment and ensured there was no impact on production Exchange Server performance.

* Self-Service Search of Archived Data: NearPoint gives Brookfield Homes' employees seamless self-service access to their archived data so that they may find potentially "lost" or deleted messages without IT assistance.

* Automated, Application Intelligent Disaster Recovery: NearPoint reliably protects Brookfield Homes' Exchange information through non-invasive, continuous application shadowing. This preserves the consistency and integrity of Exchange data, and enables "one-click" full email data and service recovery when needed.

* Mailbox Storage Management: With NearPoint, Brookfield Homes has reduced storage requirements on the Exchange Server by migrating or "extending" attachments based on policies of age, size or mailbox size watermarks.

* Rapid eDiscovery: NearPoint allows auditors and legal staff to quickly perform sophisticated search and discovery across multiple mailboxes.

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.

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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