Mimosa's Next-Generation Architecture Chosen Over Legacy Archiving Solutions SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 23
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Mimosa Systems, a leader in
Live Content Archiving solutions, today announced that the Legal Aid Society
of New York City has selected the Mimosa NearPoint(TM) unified content
archiving solution for email retention, eDiscovery, and multi-threaded
litigation holds. Mimosa NearPoint provides legal search workflow, immediate
mailbox and message recovery, disaster recovery, email, instant message and
file archiving, and self-service search and access in one solution.
Founded in 1876, the Legal Aid Society is the oldest and largest
not-for-profit organization in the nation with more than 25 facilities
throughout the City's five boroughs and a staff of more than 1,450, including
850 lawyers. The organization provides free legal assistance in more than
295,000 client matters each year through a comprehensive range of legal
services in three areas: Civil, Criminal and Juvenile Rights. The Civil
Practice combines individual representation with law reform advocacy, to serve
the most vulnerable New Yorkers, including senior citizens, disabled children
and adults, survivors of domestic violence, immigrants, low-wage workers,
persons living with HIV/AIDS, and homeless and imminently homeless children
and adults. The Criminal Practice serves as the primary public defender in
New York City, and annually handles approximately 235,000 indigent criminal
cases. The Criminal Practice provides representation in criminal trials and
appeals as well as parole revocation defense hearings. It has a national
reputation for excellence and is often cited as a model for other public
defender offices. The Juvenile Rights Practice (JPR) serves as the primary
provider of legal services for children in New York City, representing 90
percent of the children who appear before all Family Courts in New York City.
JRP is recognized as a leader in the area of child advocacy both nationally
and state-wide.
Primary drivers for the Legal Aid Society's selection of Mimosa NearPoint
for use across the organization's Microsoft(R) Exchange mailboxes included the
need to set up protocols and policies for retaining email for eDiscovery so
that email was searchable, retrievable, and available to be put under
litigation holds defined by legal action. With class action cases lasting
many years, the ability of NearPoint to support multiple long-term email
retention threads was also a necessity. The NearPoint solution also allows
for the optimization of the archive through data de-duplication, enabling
significant mailbox growth containment without dramatic increases in storage
requirements. Organizational needs to manage the growth of the Microsoft
Exchange database while ensuring maximum Exchange server performance and data
recoverability were also key requirements easily met by Mimosa NearPoint.
"Having worked with limited solutions in the past that fell short in terms
of litigation readiness, it was clear we needed an advanced offering to meet
our archiving requirements," said Edward Braunstein, director of MIS at Legal
Aid Society of New York City. "Mimosa NearPoint provides an unmatched range
of discovery, system stability, and performance using log shipping versus
dated methodologies such as Exchange journaling. Such advanced components of
its architecture allow Mimosa NearPoint to preserve rich context across all
user mailboxes and public folders-including messages, calendar items, tasks,
and contacts-which is essential to meet today's discovery and compliance
requirements."
Mimosa NearPoint Features Critical to the Legal Aid Society of New York
City:
-- Efficient and Comprehensive eDiscovery: Mimosa NearPoint has several
features that expedite the eDiscovery process by leveraging complete content
capture. These features include individual item-level legal holds,
conversation and proximity analysis, and an intuitive search within a
search-while demonstrating chain of custody as archived content moves through
the workflow.
-- Continuous Capture and Smart Extraction of Exchange Data: When an
eDiscovery or disclosure request is made, Mimosa NearPoint quickly identifies
relevant content, including all metadata, emails, folders, deletions,
calendars, contacts, notes, and tasks.
-- Simple "One-Click" Recovery: Mimosa NearPoint gives the Legal Aid
Society continuous protection of all its Exchange information. NearPoint
preserves all Exchange information disks, allows users to restore individual
messages themselves via Outlook, and enables administrators to restore
complete mailboxes and databases with simple "one-click" operations.
-- Advanced Legal Hold Capabilities: Up to 64 retention or deletion
policies can be applied per object in the Mimosa repository to meet legal hold
requirements.
"Adoption by an organization of such seasoned legal professionals is
further validation of the dominant technological advantage of Mimosa NearPoint
in live content archiving, eDiscovery, and litigation readiness," said Scott
Whitney, vice president of product management, Mimosa Systems. "Once again,
our architecture and rich portfolio of features set the pace by which all
other solutions in this category are judged."
About Mimosa NearPoint
Mimosa NearPoint addresses critical customer requirements around content
archiving, eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, business continuity, and storage
optimization in a unified solution. Mimosa NearPoint provides legal search
workflow, immediate mailbox and message recovery, disaster recovery, email,
instant message and file archiving, and self-service search and access in one
solution. By leveraging cost-effective storage and advanced classification
rules, NearPoint also optimizes content storage and reduces overall
infrastructure costs.
About Mimosa
Mimosa Systems, Inc. delivers next-generation content archiving solutions
for information immediacy, discovery, and continuity. Mimosa NearPoint is the
industry's most comprehensive unstructured information management software
solution for email, files, and instant messages, enabling archiving,
eDiscovery, storage management, and recovery in a unified solution. Mimosa is
a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, recognized for its competencies in
networking infrastructure solutions, ISV/software solutions, and advanced
infrastructure solutions. Mimosa was founded in 2003 and is based in Santa
Clara, California, with offices in Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, China,
Australia, and India. For more information, see http://www.mimosasystems.com.
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