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Email growth is exploding, and the common practice of saving old email and attachments is overburdening email servers. Email usage is expected to grow by 25 to 40 percent annually for the next few years, according to the Radicati Group, impacting performance, recoverability, and total cost of ownership. Email quotas can put a fixed limit on server growth and capacity, but quotas reduce employee productivity and force employees to find off-host methods to store email (PST files)--a practice that increases security risk. The optimal solution to manage email storage is to reduce total storage through selective archiving of old email and attachments to nearline storage that is designed to store and manage large amounts of data. Email servers run more efficiently when overall storage is reduced, and users' productivity improves with easy access to archived messages. This paper will review Mimosa NearPoint for Microsoft Exchange, a disk-based data management solution which optimizes the storage capabilities of Microsoft Exchange Server.