Company: Mimosa Systems
Headquarters: Santa Clara, Calif.
Technology Sector: Storage
Key Product: Mimosa NearPoint
Year Founded: 2003
Number of Channel Partners: 310 worldwide, including 230 in North America
Ideal Channel Partner: Enterprise-focused solution providers
Why You Should Care: As the number of e-mails, user documents and other content developed by businesses continues to explode, it's important to have a technology that can archive that content and make it available, especially during legal discovery phases.
The Lowdown: Government regulations and transparency requirements, combined with the ever-present threat of lawsuits, raise the possibility that hundreds of thousands of documents might need to be searched and compiled for legal purposes.
Mimosa Systems has responded with technology to archive and discover e-mails and other user-generated content to ensure that a business can search through and find data for legal purposes.
The company was founded in 2003 by T.M. Ravi, co-founder, president, and CEO, who got his first taste in the importance of ensuring data could be backed up and recovered at data backup software pioneer Cheyenne Software.
With over 85 percent of corporate information, including e-mails, documents, SharePoint collaborations, and so on, being user-generated, businesses need to ensure documents are reliably archived and can be recovered, Ravi said.
Businesses also need to be aware of legal issues. "Electronic communications are now considered business records," he said. "There is a duty to preserve them for compliance and corporate governance. Businesses need to compile and discover those communications easily."
The company's primary application, Mimosa NearPoint, supports data generated by Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, and file systems with such capabilities as e-discovery, content monitoring, advanced retrieval and classification, PST management, and disaster recovery, Ravi said.
Upcoming versions of NearPoint will work with Exchange 2010 and SharePoint 2010, and will have enhanced capabilities for hosted archiving, Ravi said.
About 70 percent of the company's revenue comes from its 300-plus solution provider partners worldwide. Ravi said for each $1 in product sales, partners average about $3 in revenue from IT, e-discovery, legal and business practices services.
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