e.Republic Selects Mimosa to Manage Explosive Email Growth; Leading Publisher and Event Producer for Government and Education IT Markets Selects Mimosa NearPoint to Increase Business Productivity.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Mimosa Systems(TM), Inc., today announced e.Republic, the nation's leading publisher and event producer for government and education markets, has selected Mimosa NearPoint(TM) for Microsoft(R) Exchange Server to manage its escalating email storage growth and improve administrative operations on Exchange Server.

With Mimosa NearPoint deployed, eRepublic immediately reduced Exchange storage by over 50%, and was able to eliminate the need for using Personal Store Files (.PST), which are prone to corruption.

In order to manage the explosive growth of email, e.Republic had established strict mailbox quotas and recommended the use of .PST archive files. However email is the primary productivity tool and record of business at e.Republic, resulting in demand by business users for larger mailboxes and seamless access to all email data. Having to manage .PST files and searching through the growing numbers of emails across .PST files was becoming a huge time sink for business users as well.

The Mimosa NearPoint solution enabled eRepublic to address their email challenges by providing:

Mailbox Extension -- NearPoint(TM) enables "infinite" mailboxes for business users while limiting the storage growth on the Exchange Server by:

--Automatically grooming out large message attachments based on administrator-defined criteria, ensuring end users never hit their mailbox quota limits

--Replacing attachments with "stub" files that point to attachments on the NearPoint server, providing seamless access for end users

Self-Service Access(TM) -- NearPoint delivers significant benefits to business users and IT by:

--Enabling finger-tip access by end users to all current and historical email data, even accidentally deleted messages, via their standard Outlook interface, resulting in increased user productivity

--Seamless Outlook integration, eliminating end user training requirements

--Zero footprint architecture on the desktop, minimizing IT deployment time

"We selected Mimosa NearPoint because it provides a strong, all-in-one solution that is fully integrated with Outlook and Exchange," said Tim White, Director of Information Services, eRepublic. "As a publishing company, e.Republic does a lot of email and we have struggled with mailbox quotas, .PST files and email storage growth. We consider all of our users to be "power-users" and email storage capacity is crucial for their daily sales and for bulk email activities. Mimosa NearPoint streamlined activities around email at every level in our business, and has helped us reclaim our end-user and administrator productivity."

About Mimosa NearPoint

Mimosa NearPoint addresses critical customer requirements around email recovery, storage optimization, legal discovery and regulatory compliance. A comprehensive solution for email data management, 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 email storage and reduces overall infrastructure costs.

About e.Republic

e.Republic, Inc. is the nation's leading publishing, research and new media company focused on the state/local government and education Information Technology markets. Serving both government and industry for over 18 years, e.Republic publishes the dominant state and local government magazine (Government Technology), runs the largest intergovernmental conferences in the nation (GTC's), produces over 100 targeted events annually and has the top research and advisory service in the state, local and education markets (Center for Digital Government and Center for Digital Education.)

eRepublic, Inc. provides companies targeting the public sector IT market with the widest range of integrated marketing media -- reaching tens of thousands of government and education buyers who spend billions of dollars each year on Information Technology. http://www.erepublic.com/

About Mimosa

Mimosa Systems, Inc. delivers next-generation data management solutions for information immediacy, discovery and continuity. Mimosa's flagship product, Mimosa NearPoint(TM) for Microsoft(R) Exchange Server is the industry's most comprehensive data management software solution for Microsoft Exchange, unifying email recovery, archiving 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 Advanced Infrastructure Solutions and ISV Software Solutions. Mimosa is a privately held company whose investors include August Capital, Clearstone Venture Partners and Dot Edu Ventures. 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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