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posted on 15 July 2008 12:56

BROOMFIELD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Plasmon (LSE: PLM), the trusted source in archiving systems, today announced that Mimosa Systems, a leading provider of Live Content Archiving solutions, has certified its Microsoft Exchange content archive software, NearPointTM, for use with Plasmon’s UDO Archive Appliance to help companies meet current compliance requirements and ensuring data protection and “one click” disaster recovery.

NearPoint is a next-generation email archiving system that works with Microsoft Exchange. Using the Mimosa NearPoint solution with Plasmon’s Archive Appliance, users will be able to seamlessly migrate email data directly to Plasmon’s Archive Appliance providing customers with an advanced content archiving solution for e-discovery, regulatory compliance, data protection and disaster recovery purposes.

“Due to a myriad of regulations and standards for corporate retention, companies of all sizes are in need of a proven email archiving solution that keeps their email content readily available and secure,” said Scott Whitney, vice president of product management, Mimosa Systems. “By combining Mimosa’s content archiving solutions with Plasmon’s leading archive appliance, current and future customers will receive long-term storage archiving, business continuity and optimization benefits.”

Mimosa NearPoint provides immediate mailbox and message recovery, disaster recovery, email archiving, and self-service search and access in one solution. By leveraging Plasmon’s cost-effective archiving solutions, NearPoint also optimizes email storage and reduces overall infrastructure costs by offloading static data from expensive primary storage and reducing the corresponding administration and cost of daily backup operations.

“Plasmon’s enterprise archival storage solution is a strong complement to Mimosa’s NearPoint software,” said Mike Koclanes, Chief Strategy Officer, Plasmon. “Plasmon’s Archive Appliance is specifically designed for long-term storage and is easily integrated with an email system. With businesses concerned about e-discovery and compliance, the combination of these solutions helps mitigate business risk for customers that use email as their main business communication tool.”

Easy to deploy and manage, Plasmon’s Archive Appliance combines the performance and simplicity of network-attached RAID cache, with the longevity and authenticity of Archive Appliance removable media. Data is written to RAID cache for rapid access, and then migrated to secure media for long-term retention. The Archive Appliance easily integrates with email, imaging, content management, and other applications.

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 is a privately held company whose investors include Clearstone Venture Partners, August Capital, JAFCO Ventures, Mayfield Fund and Focus Ventures. 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 www.mimosasystems.com.

About Plasmon

For more than 21 years, Plasmon has partnered with leading organizations worldwide to implement long-term archiving solutions. Plasmon provides customers with a proven methodology for establishing and managing enterprise archives as part of their IT and business processes. Plasmon solutions are designed specifically for long-term archiving without a product agenda and offer customers choice and flexibility to help them manage data growth, reduce archive complexity, enhance operation efficiencies, reduce cost and mitigate governance risk.

Founded in 1987, Plasmon PLC is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE: PLM) and is headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom with offices globally. For more information, visit www.plasmon.com.

^{[Formatted by Paul Warren.]}