VLSystems Joins Mimosa Partner Advantage Program

April 12, 2007; 01:07 AM

VLSystems, a Microsoft Gold Partner and VAR of the Year, and Mimosa Systems™, a leader in Live Content Archiving solutions, today announced that VLSystems will provide solutions to its clients based on Mimosa NearPoint™ for Microsoft® Exchange, a next-generation solution for email archiving and recovery. VLSystems is offering offer Mimosa NearPoint to its customers in Southern California who wish to unify email archiving, recovery and storage optimization with a single solution that also assures email continuity and regulatory compliance.

“Microsoft Exchange is the single most important application for our client’s businesses,” said Lee Green, vice president of marketing at VLSystems. “Email archiving is rapidly becoming a “must have” solution for every business that wants to manage its risk and protect itself from litigation. Mimosa’s next generation email archiving technology, with innovative features for self-service search, eDiscovery, and recovery have made it the solution of choice in the market.”

“The deep expertise in security, collaboration and messaging of VLSystems makes them a perfect partner for delivering email archiving and recovery solutions,” said Gerry Callanan, director of channel sales, Mimosa Systems. “VLSystems, with its expertise in Exchange, SharePoint and other Microsoft technologies is a great addition to the Mimosa Partner Advantage Program.”

Designed to help drive revenue quickly in a high-demand market, the Mimosa Partner Advantage Program offers three tiers of participation – Referral, Gold and Platinum – for value-added resellers, consulting services partners and systems integrators.  Mimosa channel partners provide services and solutions for helping clients establish polices for retention and disposition of email, support legal discovery requests, help with Exchange migrations, implement disaster recovery strategies, as well as integrate storage with archiving software into a comprehensive solution.

About Mimosa NearPoint

Mimosa NearPoint addresses critical customer requirements around email information archiving, eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, business continuity and storage optimization.  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 e-mail storage and reduces overall infrastructure costs.

About VLSystems

VLSystems, founded in Irvine, Calif. in 1978, is a Cisco Advanced Security Specialized partner and a Microsoft Gold Certified partner specializing in secure information solutions involving collaboration and workflow, Cisco wireless and security, advanced infrastructure and managed services. For more information please visit: www.vlsystems.com.

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 optimization. NearPoint assures email continuity and regulatory compliance, 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 Information Worker. 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 and Pune, India. For more information see www.MimosaSystems.com.
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