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posted on 09 April 2008 09:51

E-mail archive software supplier Mimosa is partnering with spun-down drive array vendor Nexsan to offer an integrated archive software/hardware solution to both company's customers.

Archived information is not often needed but must be available when it is needed, for eDiscovery or compliance purposes, for example. An archive is an information safety deposit vault.

Mimosa's NearPoint software collects and organises e-mail, particularly Exchange, and other files into an archive that can be searched via an indexing process so that mails and files relevant to eDiscovery or compliance requests can quickly be found. It also has settable retention policies to prevent the blind retention of every piece of information past its use-by date.

Nexsan's Assureon array uses write once/read many (WORM) technology to ensure archived information is not altered, and stores the information on disks that can be spun down(AutoMAID technology) when not in use thus saving electricity costs. The array software can also de-duplicate files at file level to produce a single-instance filestore. Thus Assureon only stores a single copy of each file in the archive and generally only spins the disk it is on when that information is needed.

The two companies have integrated their products to ensure that they work well together. Scott Whitney, product management VP at Mimosa Systems, said: “Partnering with Nexsan will provide our customers with intelligent, secure, cost-effective information storage solutions. NearPoint has been integrated with Nexsan technology to archive email, IM (Instant Messages) and file system content to Assureon devices enforcing retention policies, while providing advanced tools to search and cull-down archived content to quickly locate content relevant to a legal matter."

Both Mimosa and Nexsan will sell the integrated HW/SW product to their customers.

^{[Paul Roberts, news editor.]}