T.M. Ravi CEO Mimosa Systems

Mimosa Systems, a leader in next-generation email and file archiving solutions, has announced that Miami-Dade Aviation Department, operator of Miami International Airport (MIA), has selected Mimosa NearPoint next-generation content archiving solution to securely and efficiently protect its vital email information for simplified discovery, retrieval and retention.

Among one of the busiest airports in the world, Miami International Airport is served by eighty airlines, which provide service to 150 destinations aroundthe globe. Ranked in 2007 among U.S. airports No. 1 in international freight and No. 3 in international passengers, the airport supports travel needs for an average of over 648,000 passengers a week. To support this very active airport, Miami-Dade Aviation uses email communication for many of its critical business processes, resulting in staggering data growth and management complexity for its IT staff.

To help control rapid information growth, Miami-Dade Aviation was constraining
its email users with strict mailbox size quotas. As a result, many users were
storing data in PST files ­ personal email folders that store email data on an
individual¹s computer. Yet, PST files can be difficult to access, search and
store, since they reside locally on individual machines, which can also pose
an information security risk. Even worse, if a PST file becomes too large it
can become easily corrupted causing significant data loss. Miami-Date Aviation
initiated a selection process to identify a comprehensive email archiving
solution that would reduce server storage requirements, remove mailbox size
quotas and eliminate PST files while allowing for fast and easy recovery.
Miami-Dade Aviation selected Mimosa NearPoint with its PST Archiving Option
and out of the box Œone-click¹ disaster recovery.

Mimosa NearPoint will simplify the storage management of our Exchange servers
because it puts more control into the hands of our end-users, said Cesar
Lopez, network manager, Information Systems Division, Miami-Dade Aviation.
³Now our users will have greater access, search and recovery of their data,
when they want it, without calling IT first. It also doesn¹t require the
installation of any agents on the client machines, which reduces network
management, interoperability, I/O and memory considerations. It is exactly the
comprehensive solution we were looking for.

Top advantages of the Mimosa NearPoint solution for Miami-Dade Aviation
include:

PST Archiving: Using NearPoint, Miami-Dade Aviation administrators set
policies that allow mailboxes on Exchange Servers to be extended to the
NearPoint server using parameters such as message size, age, and mailbox
quota. For managing offline email contained in PST files, the NearPoint PST
Archiving Option crawls and uploads PST files to the NearPoint archive, where
they are centrally managed and searched for email discovery. PST files can be
automatically deleted after they are uploaded to the archive or remain as
files managed by NearPoint.

Automated Exchange Storage Management: Mimosa NearPoint significantly
reduces storage requirements by moving attachments, based on policies of age
and size, to the NearPoint server. The NearPoint Mailbox Extension feature
allows Miami-Dade Aviation to define policies that stub attachments in
Exchange while still giving users seamless access to the email.

Simple ŒOne-Click Recovery: Mimosa NearPoint gives Miami-Dade Aviation
continuous protection of all its Exchange information. NearPoint preserves all
Exchange information and allows users to restore individual messages
themselves via Outlook. In addition, NearPoint allows administrators to
restore complete mailboxes and databases with a simple Œone-click operation.

For organizations in the fast-moving aviation industry, Mimosa NearPoint
offers significant benefits for administrators and end users alike, said T.M.
Ravi, CEO, Mimosa Systems. ³By ensuring complete data capture, optimizing
storage requirements and enabling self-service search and Œone-click
recovery, NearPoint is the most comprehensive unified archiving solution
available so transportation organizations can keep email moving as efficiently
as their business.

Mimosa NearPoint addresses critical customer requirements around email
archiving, eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, business continuity, and storage
optimization in a unified solution. Mimosa NearPoint provides legal search
workflow, employee supervision, 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.

Mimosa Systems, Inc. delivers next-generation email and file archiving
solutions for information immediacy, discovery, and continuity. Mimosa
NearPoint is the industry¹s 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 Canada, France, Germany, the United
Kingdom, Japan, China, Australia, and India.