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To: Joe Wagner who wrote (4766)	8/23/2004 10:36:10 AM
From: Joe Wagner	Respond to of 4808

OT-Australian scientists turn to insect swarms for new generation weapons story.news.yahoo.com Australian scientists turn to insect swarms for new generation weapons Mon Aug 23, 4:52 AM ET Add Technology - AFP to My Yahoo! SYDNEY (AFP) - Australian scientists are using the collective intelligence found in insect swarms to develop the next generation of hi-tech military hardware. Alex Ryan, a mathematician with the government's Defence Science and Technology Organisation, heads a team that is working on computer software recreating swarm behaviour for use on the battlefield. The goal is to develop swarms of small, expendable unmanned vehicles that can carry out missions in ground, sea and aerial environments too dangerous for humans.

To: Joe Wagner who wrote (4766)	8/23/2004 5:41:05 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 4808

Storage Does Some Re-Landscaping storagepipeline.com

To: Joe Wagner who wrote (4766)	9/14/2004 10:11:42 PM
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InMage Introduces Data Continuity - Innovation That Breaks the Mold of Existing Data Protection And Disaster Recovery Solutions Monday September 13, 9:06 am ET Visionary Co-founder of Brocade, Kumar Malavalli, Establishes InMage to Protect and Manage Information at Any Business Event, Any Location, Any Time, on Any Storage SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- InMage Systems announced today its entrance into the storage industry with a new category -- Data Continuity -- that supports companies that depend on the integrity of their backup, recovery and replication operations for business continuity. With patent pending technology, InMage is the first company to provide cost-effective data continuity solutions by delivering consistent, fine-grained business event recovery at any location, any time, within any storage environment. With InMage's proactive methodology, customers can instantly recover to any business event such as a large financial transaction, or any other significant occurrence in day-to-day enterprise operations. InMage's data continuity product initially addresses the combined host-based replication and backup markets, which Gartner Group (a Connecticut-based research firm) estimates at $2.8 billion. With a seasoned executive team, led by industry veteran Kumar Malavalli -- an inductee of the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame and co-founder and former CTO of Brocade -- InMage is positioned to deliver the first form of data protection that is both affordable and aligned with business objectives across geographical boundaries. To support the company and its vision, InMage has secured $7.3 million in Series A Funding from Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and InMage Chairman, CEO and Co-founder, Kumar Malavalli and strategic Angel investors. "The companies in our investment portfolio are characterized by a unique technology vision, an exceptional management team that can execute to plan, and a solid market opportunity with strong customer support. InMage fits this profile," said Doug Hickey, partner, Hummer Winblad. "Kumar Malavalli and his team have already established themselves in a leadership position with a new market category called data continuity. We believe data continuity -- and in particular, the InMage solution -- will transform the way companies think about information backup, restoration, replication and archiving." Business disruption due to lack of continuous data availability is extraordinarily costly for businesses around the world. The National Archives and Records Administration reports that more than 93 percent of companies that lost their data center for 10 days or more due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster. Even the largest enterprises are exposed to the prospect of frequent business interruptions due to infrequent backups, backup failures, data corruptions, virus attacks, and other disasters. Current solutions fall short on both technology and cost fronts by scheduling backups and recovery on a single dimension -- time -- with no correlation to an organization's business events. This approach limits an organization's ability to accurately assure data consistency across geographical boundaries or to recover information based on a significant transaction or meaningful activity. "We are building a world-class company focused entirely on eliminating the business disruption caused by failures in the data center," explained Kumar Malavalli, chairman and CEO of InMage. "With data continuity, companies can protect and recover information tied to any business event, at any time, anywhere, on any storage environment. I'm delighted with the wide industry support we are receiving with our new approach to the backup and replication markets and look forward to defining the next generation of solutions that support business continuity." Malavalli has assembled an all-star executive team whose members have contributed to the success of premiere companies such as Amdahl, Brocade, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Motorola, Microsoft, and Gadzoox as well as prepared emerging technology companies for liquidity events. Based on this strong management team and innovative, patent-pending technology, InMage is well positioned to deliver a solution that breaks the mold established by existing data protection and disaster recovery solutions. InMage Delivers Data Continuity Solution to Eliminate Business Disruption InMage's data continuity solution enables organizations to reduce their data center storage total cost of ownership by 50 percent while eliminating the hours, days, or possibly weeks of rework required after a data center failure or disaster. InMage's patent-pending software combines: -- Continuous data backup and recovery with sophisticated information tiering, which significantly reduces the host footprint and data movement, and provides a unified interface for protection, recovery and management. This breakthrough approach offers data continuity that is affordable, consistent, application-focused, and aligned with business objectives. -- Local and remote application-level consistent copies based on real-time data gathering and movement. The data continuity architecture provides always on, granular and rapid recovery that eliminates business disruption. -- Business event-based data protection. With its awareness of business events and multi-tiered applications synchronized across distributed data centers, InMage's data continuity product offers vast improvements over existing data backup and recovery solutions. InMage has already secured revenue customers and installed its data continuity solution in large enterprise data centers around the world. The company expects to announce the general availability of its data continuity solution in the first half of 2005; product, pricing support, and customer details will be announced at that time. About Hummer Winblad Venture Partners Established in 1989, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners (www.humwin.com) was the first venture capital firm to invest exclusively in software companies. As the software industry has grown from PC software to enterprise computing to Internet applications, Hummer Winblad has been at the forefront -- funding the entrepreneurs and ideas that helped define these markets. The partners believe that innovative software will increasingly be the core driver of competitive advantage within companies, will underlie valuable services to consumers and corporations, and will change the economics of entire industries. The firms' goal is to provide the capital, experience, and vision that will help you and your company become leaders in this new software economy. For more information on Hummer Winblad, visit www.humwin.com. About InMage Founded in late 2001, InMage is the first company to provide cost-effective data continuity by delivering consistent, fine-grained, business event-level data recovery at any location, at any time, and with any storage environment. Based on patent-pending technology, InMage's flagship product for data continuity, addresses the needs of companies that depend on the integrity of their backup and replication operations for business continuity. Bellwether organizations around the world rely on the highly experienced InMage executive team, led by Kumar Malavalli -- co-founder and former CTO of Brocade -- to provide affordable data continuity that is aligned with business objectives. For more information about InMage products and services, visit www.inmage.net, send email to info@inmage.net, or call 408-200-3840. NOTE: InMage and the InMage logo are trademarks of InMage Systems Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other company and product names mentioned are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source: InMage Systems biz.yahoo.com

To: Joe Wagner who wrote (4766)	9/21/2004 10:46:31 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 4808

NeoPath Networks Raises $12M in Series B Financing Led by Gabriel Venture Partners ___________________ Company Prepares for Market Launch September 20, 2004 –Santa Clara, CA– NeoPath Networks, a leading provider of Network File Management (NFM) solutions, announced that it closed $12M in its Series B round of funding, led by Gabriel Venture Partners. Current investors August Capital, DCM-Doll Capital and DotEdu Ventures also participated in the round. NeoPath Networks will use these funds to expand the company’s marketing, sales and product development activities. Navin Chaddha, General Partner at Gabriel Venture Partners, will be joining the Board of Directors. According to Navin, “The early customer feedback was incredibly positive for a company at this stage of development, with strong endorsements for the solution and its value proposition.” Navin expanded on why Gabriel Venture Partners invested by stating, “NeoPath has reached the critical juncture, where the technology has been proven; customers want to adopt the solution; and now the company needs to ramp its sales and marketing efforts.” NeoPath Networks is developing appliances to deliver Network File Management (NFM) solutions, which allow transparent scaling of network storage; better utilization of existing storage resources; and intelligent placement of files to optimize access and protection, while lowering administration and storage costs. According to Arun Taneja, President of the Taneja Group, “This new emerging class of NFM solutions is analogous to the “switch-centric” evolution that took place in both the SAN and Web Serving markets in the 1990’s. We now see viable file access “switching” technologies ready for the market, which by decoupling the access path from the physical file storage location, simplifies management and enables transparent scaling of resources.” “We were pleased with the venture community interest during this round of funding and are thrilled to have Gabriel Venture Partners lead the round. The strong backing of our new and existing investors in our plan is great validation of both our innovative technology and the market opportunity,” said Rajeev Chawla, Founder and CEO of NeoPath Networks. “I am especially pleased to have someone with Navin’s expertise and experience in building companies contribute to our growth.” About August Capital Founded in 1995, August Capital is a leading venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurial teams throughout the information technology market spectrum. With more than 50 years of combined venture capital experience and dozens of successful IPOs and public company board relationships, August Capital partners have financed technology companies with an aggregate market capitalization of more than one-half trillion dollars. August Capital is located at 2480 Sand Hill Road, Suite 101, Menlo Park, CA 94025. For more information, please visit: www.augustcap.com. About DCM-Doll Capital Management DCM is a top-performing venture capital firm supporting entrepreneurs building early-stage technology companies. DCM’s partners, armed with over a century of operational and investing experience, have funded leading technology companies including About (Primedia), Foundry Networks (Nasdaq:FDRY), Internap (Nasdaq:INAP), IPivot (Intel), PGP, Recourse Technologies (Symantec), Remedy (Peregrine Systems), UUNet and Vernier Networks. DCM offers hands-on operational guidance and access to an extensive network of resources, including close relationships with many of the Pacific Rim’s leading companies and investors. For more information, please visit: www.dcmvc.com. About Dot Edu Ventures Dot Edu Ventures was founded in early 2000 to provide seed investment in technology companies founded by doctoral students and faculty in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering departments at top US universities. The fund typically invests at pre-business plan stage in disruptive IT technologies across areas such as databases/data mining, search, networking, and wireless communications. Representative investments include Bytemobile, Centrata, Kaltix (acquired by Google), Jareva (acquired by VERITAS), Niksun, and Vialto (acquired by Cisco). For more information, please visit: www.doteduventures.com. About Gabriel Venture Partners Gabriel Venture Partners® is a hands-on, early-stage venture capital firm with more than $260M under management across its offices in Silicon Valley and the Mid-Atlantic. Gabriel’s team of investors leverage their combined operating experience to actively partner with portfolio companies and provide value through customer and partner introductions, as well as assistance with go-to-market strategy and positioning. Gabriel focuses on specific sectors of information technology, including wireless, disruptive technologies, infrastructure software & systems, and enterprise software and services. Representative investments include Placeware (acquired by Microsoft), IPWireless, and Netscaler. For more information, please visit: www.GabrielVP.com. About NeoPath Networks Founded in April, 2002, NeoPath Networks is leading the development of Network File Management (NFM) solutions for transparent scaling and management of network file storage resources. neopathnetworks.com

To: Joe Wagner who wrote (4766)	12/14/2004 7:21:25 PM
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New deal highlights tech linkage __________________________________ by Cheryl Meyer TheDeal.com Posted 05:22 EST, 14, Dec 2004 As information technology burrows ever deeper into society, and especially in corporate America, developers of computer security and storage systems have flourished in recent years. Now these companies are starting to converge in what is building into a major wave of consolidation. Sources confirmed Tuesday, Dec. 14, that security software giant Symantec Corp. is in talks to buy storage technology vendor Veritas Software Corp. in a deal, first reported in The New York Times, that could reach $13 billion. The merger would punctuate this integration of computer security and data storage. Yet other deals show that the trend has been gathering steam. This year, for example, storage giant EMC Corp. bought Dantz Development Corp., a maker of backup products; Mountain View, Calif.-based Veritas completed its $225 million cash acquisition of KVault Software Ltd., a developer of e-mail archiving software; and security specialist Computer Associates International Inc. bought Netegrity Inc., a vendor of identity and access management software, for $430 million in cash. In another recent transaction, Symantec in December 2003 acquired PowerQuest Corp., a provider of backup technology, for $150 million. "Security and storage are intertwined," said Don More, a partner at investment bank Updata Capital Inc. "Both are critical pieces of the infrastructure. Both are affected by issues of compliance. Vendors are looking for one-stop shopping in the infrastructure space." In weighing a deal for Veritas, Cupertino, Calif.-based Symantec, best known for its Norton antivirus software, also is seeking to diversify its offerings. "The transaction is being driven by Symantec's desire to reduce their reliance on the antivirus market," said Kevin Buttigieg, an analyst with A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc. in New York. Security companies aren't the only tech players getting in the storage game, with titans such as Hewlett-Packard Co. and IBM Corp. also making storage acquisitions. "The whole storage software industry is maturing, and with that comes consolidation," said Bill North, research director at IDC. "The guys that offer the integrated solutions, like Veritas, EMC, Computer Associates, HP and IBM, are out looking for ways to broaden and diversify their offerings and, probably as important, to gather into the fold a relatively scarce talent pool." According to a new report by IDC, in the third quarter the worldwide storage software sales market grew 19.1% to $1.9 billion, compared with the year-ago period. The major storage subsectors also posted double-digit revenue growth in the third quarter. For instance, the market for storage resource management technology, which helps companies manage devices such as disk and tape drives, posted the largest gain at 27.3% year-over-year growth. The backup and archive software market continued to represent the largest functional market, growing 17.4%. The markets for storage replication software, a tool used in disaster recovery, and file system technology, which allows companies to organize their files, also enjoyed strong results in the third quarter, with 13.7% and 10.3% year-over-year growth, respectively, IDC reported. EMC, Veritas' largest competitor, led the overall market this quarter, with a 31.8% share of revenue. Sources said a Symantec deal for Veritas could spur other acquisitions. "If this deal goes through, that will pressure other players like IBM, EMC and HP to strengthen their offerings in security, which is complementary," More said. "Other large vendors, like McAfee [Inc.] and Trend Micro Inc., will also face some pressure to broaden their offering."

To: Joe Wagner who wrote (4766)	3/15/2005 1:22:34 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 4808

KAZEON TO TRANSFORM UNSTRUCTURED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT BY DELIVERING INTEGRATED VISIBILITY AND CONTROL kazeon.com Redpoint Ventures, Clearstone Venture Partners and Goldman Sachs Invest $17M to Help Enterprises Reduce Risk and Lower Operational Costs Mountain View , Calif. - March 15, 2005 - Kazeon Systems, a leading provider of unstructured information management solutions for the enterprise, today announced its strategy to deliver a series of products that will provide unified visibility and consistent control for unstructured enterprise information, including shared files, email and other non-transactional data. Kazeon’s innovative approach reduces risk, lowers operating costs and drives informed decisions for enterprise customers. Kazeon is backed by $17 million in funding from Redpoint Ventures, Clearstone Venture Partners and Goldman Sachs. The company is led by CEO and co-founder, Sudhakar Muddu, a proven executive and successful entrepreneur who founded Sanera Systems, a next-generation SAN technology company, which was sold to McDATA Corporation in 2003. The Kazeon management team also includes several seasoned executives who come from some of the technology industry’s leading companies, including VERITAS Software, Sun Microsystems, Inktomi, Broadcom, Sprint and Cisco. The company’s first product is currently being tested with several Fortune 500 companies and is expected to be generally available in mid-2005. Companies worldwide are seeing exponential growth in their non-transactional business data such as contracts, financial reports, product information and customer communications. In fact, many companies now have as many files in their internal networks as existed on the entire Internet just a few years ago. Meanwhile, strategic business mandates, such as regulatory compliance and corporate governance, are making rapid, controlled access to information a critical requirement for everyone from the data center to the boardroom. “Until now, enterprises have been limited by a storage-centric infrastructure that has not evolved to effectively support the richness of content that is contained inside the unstructured files on their network. The long term information access and retention needs of corporate executives, compliance officers and legal teams are fueling the need for new ways to provide greater visibility into and control of unstructured information,” said Sudhakar Muddu, CEO of Kazeon. “Our new platform leverages search, database and file system technology to provide more consistency around how information is classified, managed and retrieved without disrupting user behavior or forcing migration to a centralized repository.” With integrated information visibility and control services, corporations will have the necessary data management foundation to successfully implement solutions that access, track and manage their unstructured enterprise information on a broad scale. The Kazeon platform enables advanced applications including storage search and classification, information lifecycle management (ILM) and the archival of file system and application data. Kazeon’s strategy is aligned to meet the immediate and underserved needs of enterprises around unstructured data. According to Ray Paquet, vice president and research director of Gartner, “Managing unstructured information is becoming a priority. With unstructured files accounting for more than half of corporate data, it will become increasingly important for enterprises to know what content is in their files, be able to archive them appropriately and find the content they need when they need it.” The most significant barrier to effective management of unstructured information is that most companies are unaware of the full scope of available information in their networks. Visibility is obscured by disparate data formats that are user-, application-, or technology-dependent. Attempts to solve these problems through traditional text search or storage resource management applications have lacked the awareness of both content and metadata required for a complete view of enterprise information. Without that insight, there is no effective way to manage information based on business value. Kazeon aims to remove these long-standing limitations with products built around its new unstructured information management platform. The core of the Kazeon platform is an advanced data classification system that efficiently creates an abstract for each file in the network. These abstracts are stored across Kazeon’s distributed repository that scales to provide a uniform view of billions of objects and the information they contain. Built around the repository are integrated services that support critical information management applications such as storage search, reporting, auditing, archival, and policy management. A Kazeon API enables any other application or service to directly contribute data to, and make requests from, the Kazeon platform. “Government regulations, internal corporate governance policies and budget constraints are pushing companies to provide greater visibility and control over their unstructured files,” said Sumant Mandal of Clearstone Venture Partners. “While services exist to manage transactional data stored in databases, more than half of the information generated inside companies is contained in unstructured files. The Kazeon team has developed a solution that streamlines storage operations and reduces a corporation’s risk of costly litigation or embarrassing compliance violations. “Kazeon has put together all the pieces – the vision, the technology and the team -- needed to be successful,” said Tom Dyal of Redpoint Ventures. “The market opportunity they’ve identified is significant and the initial feedback on their product indicates that they’ve created something unique. Kazeon will not only change how enterprises approach the handling of unstructured files, but will also help them achieve strategic objectives such as risk mitigation, regulatory compliance, and litigation preparedness.” About Kazeon Founded in 2003, Kazeon develops application-independent unstructured information management services that provide consistent information visibility and control across diverse unstructured data sets, such as user files and email. The company’s founders and executive team are experts in search, database, and storage technology. Kazeon is based in Mountain View, CA and privately funded by top-tier venture firms Redpoint Ventures, Clearstone Venture Partners and Goldman Sachs.

To: Joe Wagner who wrote (4766)	3/26/2005 1:06:18 PM
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Kazeon Comes Out _______________________ By Mary Jander Site Editor Byte and Switch March 15, 2005 byteandswitch.com Another startup focused on helping organizations with unstructured data storage has emerged from stealth. Kazeon Inc. says its out-of-band solution for identifying and organizing email, MP3 music files, image files, Excel charts, Office documents, and the like, is in beta testing with an unspecified number of companies and will be generally available by mid-2005. Kazeon is one of a tiny number of companies focused on helping IT get a better handle on burgeoning data that can no longer be easily thrown away. Like StoredIQ, which announced its own plans in this area in January (see Deepfile Becomes StoredIQ), Kazeon will peer into the content of unstructured files and create searchable metadata that enables IT managers to locate what they need to save. The software will also feature automation capabilities, the company claims. Details are sketchy. But according to VP of marketing Troy Toman (ex-Veritas), Kazeon will look to differentiate itself from StoredIQ and others by ease of implementation, scaleability, and document management applications. He also says Kazeon's solution will have no agents, implying that it will be an appliance-based solution like StoredIQ's. The problem of managing unstructured data is being addressed by a range of larger companies, often as part of their information lifecycle management (ILM) wares. But firms like Kazeon and StoredIQ aim to get a jump on big players with products that offer detail, automation, and a range of management options that aren't tied to a specific platform. The newbies are also looking at expanding the range of applications beyond the basics. StoredIQ, for example, plans to start offering applications designed to search files for specific words linked to vertical industries such as healthcare. The market should allow plenty of room for at least a handful of startups. According to Toman, analyst estimates for the percentage of unstructured data in most organizations ranges from 65 percent to 80 percent, and most see a market potential in excess of $1 billion. Kazeon was founded in 2003 by Sudhakar Muddu, formerly CEO of Sanera, which was acquired by McData Corp. (Nasdaq: MCDTA - message board) for $102 million in 2003 (see McData Completes Sanera Acquisition). The company has $17 million in funding from Clearstone Venture Partners, Goldman Sachs & Co., and Redpoint Ventures. Toman says there are no current plans for more funding. Though Kazeon developed its product mostly domestically at its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters, Toman says plans are underway to expand the team with an office in Bangalore, India.

To: Joe Wagner who wrote (4766)	6/7/2005 11:07:42 PM
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Mimosa Systems delivers NEXT-GENERATION UNIFIED DATA PROTECTION AND ARCHIVING SOLUTION for Exchange Server Mimosa Addresses Information Immediacy, Discovery and Continuity Needs for Critical Enterprise Information mimosasystems.com Santa Clara, Calif. — May 23, 2005 – Mimosa Systems™, Inc., today announced the release of Mimosa NearPoint™ for Microsoft® Exchange Server, a unified data management solution for Microsoft Exchange. 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. Mimosa Systems provides information immediacy, discovery and continuity for the new generation of critical enterprise information by enabling fingertip access to vast information by users; powerful and rapid search and retrieval of corporate historical information by auditors; and uninterrupted access to corporate information in the midst of failures and errors. Mimosa™ is focused on data management of unstructured and semi-structured information, including email, documents, and other new data types. Mimosa’s initial focus is on email. Email is a mission critical application that requires continuity and immediate recovery. Email has become a business record that needs to be managed with proper retention and discovery capabilities. As the primary tool for communication and collaboration, email is the most valuable business productivity tool for business users. Email servers have become the storehouses of large amounts of business record data causing an explosion of storage on email servers. For example, across all messaging systems, storage is growing at an average of 32% annually (Osterman Research) and email accounts for over half of electronic information requested in litigation. Peter Gerr, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group said, "No one will argue that email is critical to business today. When email servers are down, company productivity comes to a halt. In addition, IT and business professionals need better email data management and data protection for corporate governance. Companies can spend millions in conducting just one search of back up tapes to recover historical emails. Mimosa's NearPoint for Microsoft Exchange is a unique, purpose-built solution that can solve both these issues, combining data protection and archiving of email in an easy to deploy package without significantly changing the end-user experience." "We use unified messaging where email, fax, and voicemail are combined within Exchange. This makes Exchange a mission critical application for us and data management has simply become unmanageable," said Bill Bragg, Director of Information Systems for Sears' Home Improvement Division. "Whether it was restoring mailboxes to aide in email discovery for litigation support, dealing with mailbox quotas to manage storage growth, or database level disaster recovery, the built-in Microsoft Outlook Archival tools and our tape backup solution were just not robust enough for users in a large enterprise. Any one of these email challenges took hours if not days to address, and at a prohibitive cost to our business. Mimosa NearPoint for Exchange addressed our email data management problems with its immediate recovery and archival features that include management of email retention along with user self-service search and retrieval. It is really impressive that Mimosa’s one integrated solution addressed all of our email management challenges!” Unified Solution Mimosa NearPoint for Microsoft Exchange provides unified data protection, email archiving and storage management in a single solution. It affords the following capabilities for customers: * Fine-grained recovery of Exchange databases, mailboxes and messages - Application-aware continuous data protection reduces loss of data in the event of a disaster - Immediate disk-based recovery reduces application downtime * Real-time email archiving - Retention and disposition management supports corporate email policy and compliance efforts * Discovery for corporate and legal officers and auditors - Advanced search of messages, calendar items, contacts, etc. - Re-create complex message threads for forensics and legal discovery * Self-service archival access for end users - Seamless integration with Outlook/OWA interface - Powerful “Google-like” search capability * Reduces Exchange storage, improves performance and efficiency of the Exchange server - End-user access to “infinite” mailboxes * Radically simpler to deploy - Zero footprint on Exchange and desktops - Default policies “Microsoft appreciates the depth of expertise that Mimosa Systems has in providing comprehensive solutions for litigation support, regulatory compliance, recovery, and infrastructure optimization for Microsoft Exchange customers,” said Donna Conner, Senior Product Manager in the Exchange Server Product Group at Microsoft Corp. “Mimosa NearPoint enhances Exchange Server with innovative archiving and data protection leveraging Microsoft technologies and standards. The seamless integration with Outlook helps increase user self-sufficiency and effectiveness.” “Our goal at Mimosa is to make it simpler for corporations to manage email, documents and other enterprise content throughout their lifecycle,” said T.M. Ravi, President and CEO, Mimosa Systems, Inc. “Mimosa’s next-generation data management solutions will help transform everyday business processes and drive benefits across the organization, from CXOs to legal, HR, IT, and most importantly to employees.” Pricing and Availability NearPoint for Microsoft Exchange is available immediately, starting at $9995. About Mimosa Mimosa Systems, Inc. delivers next-generation data management solutions for information immediacy, discovery and continuity. Mimosa’s flagship product, Mimosa NearPoint™ for Microsoft® Exchange Server is the industry’s most comprehensive data management software solution for Microsoft Exchange, unifying email recovery, archiving and storage optimization. NearPoint assures e-mail continuity and regulatory compliance, while leveraging cost-effective disk technologies to optimize email storage growth. 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 mimosasystems.com.