FaceTime (News - Alert) Communications and Mimosa Systems have partnered to create comprehensive, scalable solutions for secure and compliant archival of enterprise communications.

 

The combined solution created as a result of this partnership 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.

 

A recent report from Osterman Research, Presence, IM and Real Time Communication Trends, 2007-2010, indicates that 44 percent of workplace email users also used IM in 2006. While this figure grew to 60 percent in 2007, it is estimated to reach 93 percent by 2009. Osterman also predicts the number of IM users required to archive communications messages will increase by 36 percent in 2008.

 

Combining best-in-class technologies, the joint FaceTime and Mimosa offering creates a powerful solution that raises the bar for comprehensive communications archiving. Mimosa Systems explains that its NearPoint delivers information archiving, eDiscovery, continuous data protection and disaster recovery in a single, integrated platform.

 

When coupled with FaceTime Communications’ (News - Alert) security products for the management and control of greynet applications, the solution 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 (News - Alert) General Manager for US ISV and National SI Partners, Greg Urquhart said in a statement that Microsoft is extremely pleased with and supportive of the partnership between Mimosa Systems and FaceTime Communications. He observed that 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.

 

Frank Cabri, vice president of marketing and product management for FaceTime indicated that by combining their products, mutual customers are assured a secure and compliant infrastructure for Microsoft Unified Communications (News - Alert) and messaging applications.

 

Sanjay Mehta, vice president of engineering and chief architect of Mimosa Systems explained that 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.

 

Mehta emphasized that 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.