Arnold Worldwide Entrusts Its Critical Data and Creative IP to Mimosa NearPoint Email Archiving Solution Stored on Compellent Storage Center

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ — Mimosa Systems, a leader in
next-generation email and file archiving solutions, today announced that the
global advertising agency, Arnold Worldwide has deployed the Mimosa
NearPoint(TM) archiving solution stored on Compellent’s Storage Center(TM)
storage area networks (SAN) to protect and archive emails and attachments in
its mixed PC and Mac enterprise.

Arnold Worldwide is owned by Havas (Euronext Paris: HAV.PA) and represents
one of the lead agencies in the system, with three fully integrated service
offices in the U.S.: Boston, New York and Washington, D.C. Arnold’s client
roster includes many Fortune 500 brands like truth(R), Amtrak, McDonald’s,
Fidelity Investments, Hershey’s, RadioShack and Jack Daniel’s. Attributing its
success to the expertise of its people, Arnold prides itself on creative
solutions. Its IT infrastructure is no exception. It boasts a virtualized
server and storage enterprise that supports core applications including Adobe
Creative Suite 3, Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 for
an equal mix of Microsoft Windows PCs and Macintosh OS X computers.

As a fast-moving organization, Arnold finds that email is often the most
vital application it uses. Email has become the primary method for
communicating both internally between account team members, and externally
with clients and vendors. It is also frequently used to send large file
transfers for creative campaigns and designs. As a result, Arnold’s IT
organization needed a reliable solution to ensure protection and archiving of
email content so that critical data wouldn’t be put at risk of data loss and
to ensure that key data, such as contracts or creative intellectual property,
could be recovered if needed. Arnold chose to implement the Mimosa NearPoint
email archiving solution with archived data stored on two Compellent SANs, one
in its Boston headquarters and a second in its New York office.

“We have had lots of success with the Mimosa NearPoint archiving
solution,” said Greg Folsom, senior vice president of information technology,
Arnold Worldwide. “It’s both easy-to-use and flexible. But even more
importantly, we can now easily go back to emails that are a year old to
research contract information or find missing files. On occasion, this has
saved us big money as we located key details of a contract agreement that was
stored in a former employee’s email.”

Features of Mimosa NearPoint that are important to Arnold Worldwide
include:

    *  Continuous Capture and Archiving of Exchange Data: Mimosa NearPoint
       captures all of Arnold's metadata, emails, folders, deletions,
       calendars, contacts, notes, and tasks, so relevant content can be
       quickly identified.
    *  Mailbox Storage Management: With NearPoint, Arnold is able to
       significantly reduce storage requirements on its Exchange Server by
       migrating or extending attachments based on policies of age, document
       size, or mailbox size.
    *  Next-generation Architecture: Mimosa NearPoint's unique architecture
       does not require journaling or any agents on either the Exchange Server
       or user desktops, ensuring that there is no impact on Arnold's
       production Exchange Server performance.

“Mimosa NearPoint is a powerful solution for the comprehensive protection
of email data, even for mixed PC and Mac environments like Arnold’s that email
large files,” said Scott Whitney, vice president of product marketing, Mimosa
Systems. “When combined with Compellent SANs, NearPoint delivers the reliable
content archiving companies of all sizes need for information immediacy,
discovery and continuity.”

To assure data protection and disaster preparedness, Arnold retains its
archived email data in its Boston-based Compellent SAN, which is replicated to
the New York office.

“We needed to improve business continuity while keeping capital and
operating expenditures low,” added Folsom. “We unanimously selected the
Compellent SAN for its ease-of-use, performance, scalability and inherent
virtualization capabilities. The Compellent SAN integrates seamlessly with our
server virtualization platform, immediately reducing the complexity of our
data center. We gained a level of control over our data we were previously
lacking, and adopted an ironclad disaster recovery program.”

“Together, Mimosa NearPoint and the Compellent SAN deliver one of the most
efficient and scalable environments for content archiving,” said Bruce
Kornfeld, vice president of marketing, Compellent. “For Arnold, this powerful
combination has resulted in a high-performance, easy-to-manage environment for
the protection of its mission-critical creative files and business
information.”

    Important features of the Compellent SAN for Arnold included:
    *  Virtualization: By integrating with Arnold's server virtualization
       software, the Compellent SAN's storage virtualization has consolidated
       45 physical servers to four, and reduced equipment racks from seven to
       three.
    *  Automated Tiered Storage: Enables Arnold to utilize lower-cost, more
       energy-efficient SATA drives for infrequently accessed data.
    *  Continuous Snapshots: Instantly restores Arnold's data in minutes,
       rather than hours or days
    *  Thin Provisioning: Eliminates Arnold's typical annual purchase needs of
       10 or more storage disks while offering limitless scalability.

About Mimosa NearPoint

Mimosa NearPoint addresses critical customer requirements around email
archiving, eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, business continuity, and storage
optimization in a unified solution. Mimosa NearPoint proactively captures
email, files, and instant messages; and provides legal search workflow,
employee supervision, immediate mailbox and message recovery, disaster
recovery, 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 email and file 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 was founded in 2003 and is based in Santa
Clara, California, with offices in Canada, France, Germany, the United
Kingdom, Japan, China, Australia, and India. For more information, visit
http://www.mimosasystems.com.

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