Mimosa Systems Wins 2008 Microsoft ISV Star Partner Platform Award For The SMS&P NY Metro Area

June 17, 2008; 11:53 AM

Santa Clara, Calif. — Mimosa Systems, a leading provider of Live Content Archiving solutions, today announced that it has received the 2008 ISV Star Partner Platform Award for the Microsoft SMS&P NY Metro Area. The award recognizes Mimosa for the second consecutive quarter as a 2008 outstanding independent software vendor that continues to demonstrate exceptional integration with the community and has a channel and partner ecosystem to deliver robust content archiving applications with Microsoft solutions worldwide.

Mimosa NearPointTM is tightly integrated with Microsoft Exchange Server and addresses critical customer requirements for email information archiving, eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, data protection, disaster recovery and storage optimization. The solution enables litigation readiness, business continuity and end-user search while reducing overall operational costs.

The Microsoft Partner Program Awards recognize Microsoft partners who have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the past year. This award marks the latest in a growing list of Microsoft accolades for Mimosa including:
• Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, recognized for its competencies in networking infrastructure solutions, ISV/software solutions, and advanced infrastructure solutions
• Q1, 2008 ISV Star Partner Award for the Microsoft SMS&P NY for exceptional integration ability and channel strength
• Top two finalist for the 2008 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award for ISV/Software Solutions

“This award marks another important milestone for Mimosa and we are especially proud to receive the Microsoft Star Partner Award because it again recognizes the close relationship between Microsoft and Mimosa. We’ve added over 450 new customers, many new channel partners and deepened our contacts within Microsoft and the partner community to deliver value-add content archiving solutions for our mutual customers,” said Senior Director, Business Development Microsoft Alliance, Derek Sanders of Mimosa Systems.

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 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.

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