BELMONT, CALIF. - January 28, 2008 - FaceTime
Communications, the leading provider of solutions that control
greynets and manage Unified Communications in the enterprise and
Mimosa Systems™, the leader in Live Content Archiving solutions,
today announced that the two industry leaders have partnered to
create comprehensive, scalable solutions for secure and compliant
archival of enterprise communications. The combined solution 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.
In recent years, businesses have seen rapid growth in the use of
Instant Messaging (IM) as a business communications tool, second
only to email. According to a recent report from Osterman Research,
Presence, IM and Real Time Communication Trends,
2007-2010, 44 percent of workplace email users also used IM in
2006. This figure grew to 60 percent in 2007 and is estimated to
reach 93 percent by 2009. This trend has driven the need for
organizations to incorporate IM-and greynet applications-into an
overarching message-capture and retrieval strategy, in order to
meet regulatory compliance and litigation requirements. In a number
of industries, including financial services, government regulations
now mandate long-term archival of IM data. In addition, Osterman
predicts the number of IM users required to archive communications
messages will increase by 36 percent in 2008.
The joint FaceTime and Mimosa offering combines best-in-class
technologies to create a powerful solution that raises the bar for
comprehensive communications archiving. Mimosa Systems' NearPoint
delivers information archiving, eDiscovery, continuous data
protection and disaster recovery in a single, integrated platform.
Coupled with FaceTime Communications' industry-leading security
products for the management and control of greynet applications, it
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 is extremely pleased with and supportive of the
partnership between Mimosa Systems and FaceTime Communications,"
said Greg Urquhart, Microsoft General Manager for US ISV and
National SI Partners. "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."
"Mimosa Systems and FaceTime are committed to protecting our
customers against business risk, ensuring that all electronic
records comply with a broad range of regulatory, legal and
e-discovery requirements," said Frank Cabri, vice president of
marketing and product management for FaceTime. "By combining our
products, mutual customers are assured a secure and compliant
infrastructure for Microsoft Unified Communications and messaging
applications."
"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," noted Sanjay Mehta, vice president
of engineering and chief architect of Mimosa Systems. "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."
About Actiance, Inc. (Formerly FaceTime Communications, Inc.)
FaceTime Communications became Actiance, Inc on January 11, 2011 following an agreement to
transfer the FaceTime trademark to Apple.
FaceTime Communications enables the safe and productive use of Unified Communications and Web 2.0,
including instant messaging, blogs and social networking. Ranked number one by IDC for five consecutive
years, FaceTime's award-winning solutions are used by more than 1,500 customers for the security,
management and compliance of real-time communications. FaceTime supports or has strategic partnerships
with all leading IM, unified communications providers and social networks including AOL, Google, Yahoo!,
Skype, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
FaceTime is headquartered in Belmont, California. For more information visit
http://www.facetime.com or call 888-349-3223.
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