Press Release
FaceTime Communications and Mimosa Systems Join Forces to Create Comprehensive
Business Communication Archival Solutions Encompassing Email and Instant
Messaging
BELMONT, CALIF. - January 28, 2008 - FaceTime Communications, the
leading provider of solutions that control greynets and manage Unified
Communications in the enterprise and Mimosa Systems™, the leader in Live
Content Archiving solutions, today announced that the two industry leaders have
partnered to create comprehensive, scalable solutions for secure and compliant
archival of enterprise communications. The combined solution will deliver
comprehensive business communications archival for business critical documents,
email, calendar and contact items, public IM networks, enterprise IM networks,
professional community networks, and Web conferencing.
In recent years, businesses have seen rapid growth in the use of Instant
Messaging (IM) as a business communications tool, second only to email.
According to a recent report from Osterman Research, Presence, IM and Real Time
Communication Trends, 2007-2010, 44 percent of workplace email users also used
IM in 2006. This figure grew to 60 percent in 2007 and is estimated to reach 93
percent by 2009. This trend has driven the need for organizations to
incorporate IM—and greynet applications—into an overarching message-capture and
retrieval strategy, in order to meet regulatory compliance and litigation
requirements. In a number of industries, including financial services,
government regulations now mandate long-term archival of IM data. In addition,
Osterman predicts the number of IM users required to archive communications
messages will increase by 36 percent in 2008.
The joint FaceTime and Mimosa offering combines best-in-class technologies to
create a powerful solution that raises the bar for comprehensive communications
archiving. Mimosa Systems' NearPoint delivers information archiving,
eDiscovery, continuous data protection and disaster recovery in a single,
integrated platform. Coupled with FaceTime Communications' industry-leading
security products for the management and control of greynet applications, it
gives customers a total business communication archive strategy that also
safeguards against risks associated with government regulation non-compliance,
the costs associated with eDiscovery, and increased exposure to security
breaches over IM networks.
"Microsoft is extremely pleased with and supportive of the partnership between
Mimosa Systems and FaceTime Communications," said Greg Urquhart, Microsoft
General Manager for US ISV and National SI Partners. "As Microsoft Managed Gold
Certified ISV partners, they bring together leading expertise in Microsoft
Exchange and Office Communications Server, to deliver a secure and compliant
solution for the archival and discovery of business critical communications for
our mutual customers."
"Mimosa Systems and FaceTime are committed to protecting our customers against
business risk, ensuring that all electronic records comply with a broad range
of regulatory, legal and e-discovery requirements," said Frank Cabri, vice
president of marketing and product management for FaceTime. "By combining our
products, mutual customers are assured a secure and compliant infrastructure
for Microsoft Unified Communications and messaging applications."
"Today's demand for enterprises to archive a wide range of electronic documents
for litigation discovery and regulatory compliance is driving the need to
centralize the archive and management of these documents," noted Sanjay Mehta,
vice president of engineering and chief architect of Mimosa Systems. "FaceTime
IMAuditor's ability to secure and capture IM data, together with Mimosa
NearPoint's scalable architecture and rich eDiscovery Option, offer an ideal
solution for reducing business risk associated with IM, email, unified
communications, and other electronic documents."
About FaceTime Communications
FaceTime Communications enables the safe and productive use of instant
messaging, Web usage and Unified Communications platforms. Ranked number one by
IDC for four consecutive years, FaceTime's award-winning solutions are used by
more than 900 customers - including nine of the ten largest U.S. banks - for
security, management and compliance of real-time communications. FaceTime
supports or has strategic partnerships with all leading public and enterprise
IM network providers, including AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Skype, IBM,
Reuters, and Jabber.
FaceTime is headquartered in Belmont, California. For more information visit
http://www.facetime.com or call 888-349-FACE. The FaceForward blog, at
http://blog.facetime.com, offers thoughts and opinions about the changing
nature of Internet communications.
About Mimosa NearPoint
Mimosa NearPoint for Microsoft® Exchange Server addresses critical customer
requirements around email information archiving, eDiscovery, regulatory
compliance, business continuity, and storage optimization. Mimosa NearPoint
provides legal search workflow, 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.
About Mimosa
Mimosa Systems, Inc. delivers next-generation information management solutions
for information immediacy, discovery, and continuity. Mimosa™ NearPoint™ for
Microsoft® Exchange Server is the industry's most comprehensive information
management software solution for Microsoft Exchange, unifying email archiving,
recovery, and storage management. With options for eDiscovery and disaster
recovery, NearPoint ensures litigation readiness and email continuity, while
leveraging cost-effective disk technologies to optimize email storage growth.
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 August Capital, Clearstone Venture Partners, Dot Edu Ventures, JAFCO
Ventures, and Mayfield Fund. Mimosa was founded in 2003 and is based in Santa
Clara, California, with offices in Munich, Germany, the United Kingdom and
Pune, India. For more information, see www.MimosaSystems.com.
PR Contact:
Emily Chamberlin
650-762-2945
echamberlin@ar-edelman.com
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