SANTA CLARA, Calif., December 16, 2009 -- Mimosa Systems, the leader in next-generation generation email archiving  , file archiving and SharePoint archiving solutions, today announced that the State of North Carolina has selected Mimosa NearPointTM to archive emails for 41,000 state employees. Mimosa was selected as the archiving vendor of choice from a pool of 29 other archiving vendors who responded to an open state bid. Mimosa will deploy NearPoint in the State's Office of Information Technology Services (ITS) to perform email retention, eDiscovery, search and retrieval functions for more than one million daily emails which will enable North Carolina to achieve state and federal legal compliance and public record transparency.
The State of North Carolina is the fourth fastest-growing state in the United States and the fastest growing state east of the Mississippi. Supporting the technology infrastructure for state agencies, local governments and educational institutions for this diverse and fast growing state is the ITS office which provides information technology services, including hosting, network and video services, telecommunications, and enterprise services such as email and calendaring. It is the state's email system that is among the most critical applications supported by the North Carolina ITS office which is tasked with managing, protecting and retaining the more than one million daily emails sent and received by state employees.
In July, 2009, North Carolina State Governor Beverly Purdue signed an executive order directing ITS to obtain an email archive system "as soon as practicable." This was a critical move to assure compliance since the state's current backup system is not an archiving system, but only designed to help recover the email system in case of a catastrophic failure. The state required a true archive and eDiscovery solution to assure state and federal legal compliance and so that it could quickly and efficiently respond to litigation-related matters, investigations and public records requests.
"Preserving state emails as a public record is vital to a transparent and accountable government," said Beverly Perdue, North Carolina State Governor. "Ultimately, a more transparent government will bring about a better government." (continued...)
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