Joint solution simplifies management of the messaging and archive environments and enables NetApp's cascading Snapshot.

Mimosa Systems, a provider of Live Content Archiving solutions, today announced that it has integrated with NetApp storage and data management solutions for archiving control and protection on NetApp technologies, including NetApp SnapManager for SQL Server, SnapDrive, SnapMirror, and FlexVol. The company states that this joint solution simplifies management of the messaging and archive environments and enables NetApp's cascading Snapshot copies approach for archive data protection.

The company explains that the resulting combination allows customers to deploy smaller storage footprints for their email archives, improve their archive recovery times, and reduce their associated archive management costs. It further explains that according to internal benchmarks, the joint solution provides customers with storage efficiency savings of up to 50 percent when archiving Exchange data based on internal workloads.The combined  solution brings together archival and information management solutions for user-generated content so customers can simplify manageability and lower operating costs.

''Content archiving has become a pervasive and critical priority for organizations of all sizes and industry verticals,'' said T.M. Ravi, CEO, Mimosa Systems. ''By joining together with NetApp we are delivering an integrated, best-in-class solution for archiving and recovery that addresses the rapidly growing need for eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, and optimization of storage.''