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Iron Mountain Commits to Five Percent Cut in its Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:33:00 -0400

BOSTON (April 22, 2013) — Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE:IRM) pledged today to cut its absolute greenhouse gas emissions across North America and the United Kingdom five percent below 2012 levels by the end of 2014. On this annual observance of Earth Day, the company advanced its commitment to environmental sustainability, setting a carbon reduction goal for the first time in the history of the storage and information management firm.

“Reducing our carbon footprint is the right thing to do both for our business and our environment,” said Iron Mountain President and CEO Bill Meaney. “With thousands of trucks on the road and an expansive network of storage facilities, we plan to continually optimize our operations so that we’re serving customers most efficiently and minimizing our environmental impact in the process. We’re excited about the progress we’ve made with sustainability, and we’re proud to announce our first-ever target for reducing greenhouse gases.”

Achieving the goal will require the company to eliminate approximately 13,500 metric tons of absolute greenhouse gas emissions relative to its carbon footprint in 2012. According to the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator, that’s equal to taking 2,800 vehicles off the road for one year. To do so, Iron Mountain will focus on several initiatives to lower energy usage at its storage facilities and improve the fuel economy of its truck fleet.

Continuing on work from last year, Iron Mountain and real estate partner CBRE are upgrading lighting systems in facilities across the United States and Canada with high-efficiency T8 lamps. The project will reduce the company’s carbon footprint, improve the working environment at these facilities and yield an expected annual energy savings of approximately $2 million.

Iron Mountain is also taking steps to reduce the fuel consumption of its truck fleet. The company has worked for more than a decade to optimize the density of its service-delivery routes, ensuring couriers serve the most customers over the fewest miles. Iron Mountain is also installing telematics technology in its U.S. vehicles, after having successfully outfitted its U.K. fleet with similar systems. The technology provides transportation leaders with vehicle speed, acceleration rates, idle time, odometer information and cruise control settings so they can coach couriers on operating vehicles more efficiently. Today, nearly 900 Iron Mountain trucks in the United States and United Kingdom carry the systems, and the company intends to have them in approximately 3,000 vehicles by the end of 2014.

Other environmental initiatives not tied to the five percent goal include Iron Mountain’s partnership with SunEdison to enable the production of solar energy from photovoltaic cells placed atop several Iron Mountain storage facilities in New England. The first panels were installed this month at a facility in Windsor, Conn., and the company will add panels at other facilities throughout the year.

Iron Mountain is also working to implement waste management plans at all its facilities in North America and the United Kingdom by the end of 2014.This expands on a recycling program started in 2012 at the company’s corporate headquarters and will include processes for reducing both office and operational waste. Additionally, Iron Mountain will continue to support its customers’ sustainability goals by recycling securely shredded client documents and diverting 450,000 tons of paper from landfills every year in the process.

“One of the key pillars in our corporate responsibility program, Taking CARE, is our commitment to environmental sustainability,” said Samantha Joseph, director of corporate responsibility for Iron Mountain. “Iron Mountain has a culture of continuous improvement. We are always looking for ways to improve our efficiency and service quality to our customers, and we value being able to help customers meet their environmental goals. Our company’s commitment to sustainability is integral to our business strategy.”

Taking CARE also includes global strategies and initiatives for community engagement, employee advocacy and information responsibility. Visit www.ironmountain.com/responsibility for more information.

About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) is a leading provider of storage and information management services. The company’s real estate network of over 64 million square feet across more than 1,000 facilities in 35 countries allows it to serve customers with speed and accuracy. And its solutions for records management,data backup and recovery, document management, and secure shredding help organizations to lower storage costs, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and better use their information for business advantage. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain stores and protects billions of information assets, including business documents, backup tapes, electronic files and medical data. Visit www.ironmountain.com for more information.

Iron Mountain Appoints Al Verrecchia as Chairman of the Board

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 08:23:00 -0400

BOSTON (March 25, 2013) – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the storage and information management company, today announced that Alfred J. Verrecchia became chairman of its board effective March 15, 2013. Verrecchia, 70, joined the company’s board in March 2010 and was appointed lead independent director in June 2012. Verrecchia has been chairman-elect since late 2012, when the company announced the retirement of longtime CEO and chairman Richard Reese and welcomed new CEO William Meaney. With the appointment of Verrecchia, the board separates the chairman and CEO roles between two individuals, creating a new leadership structure for the company and reflecting best practices for corporate governance.

Verrecchia is also chairman of the board at Hasbro Inc., a publicly held, branded play and entertainment company. He has spent his entire career at Hasbro, holding various senior leadership roles, including chief operating officer and chief financial officer before serving as CEO from 2003-2008. He was elected chairman in 2008.

“Al has provided our board with deep executive and financial pedigree since he joined, and he’ll make a fine chairman,” said Bill Meaney, president and CEO of Iron Mountain. “I look forward to working with him in his new role and leading Iron Mountain to deliver sustainable value through steady, long-term revenue growth and a continued focus on driving strong returns on our invested capital.”

In addition to his chairman duties for Iron Mountain and Hasbro, Verrecchia has extensive experience with board service, having been on the board of Old Stone Corporation from 1987 to 2012, FGX International Holdings from February 2009 to March 2010, and CVS Caremark from September 2004 to March 2007.

He holds a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Rhode Island.

About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) is a leading provider of storage and information management services. The company’s real estate network of over 64 million square feet across more than 1,000 facilities in 35 countries allows it to serve customers with speed and accuracy. And its solutions for records management, data backup and recovery, document management, and secure shredding help organizations to lower storage costs, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and better use their information for business advantage. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain stores and protects billions of information assets, including business documents, backup tapes, electronic files and medical data. Visit www.ironmountain.com for more information.

Iron Mountain Hosts Second Annual Symposium for Law Firms Examining Information Governance

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:18:00 -0400

Law firm information management leaders to expand on information governance framework and deliver practical industry guidelines for building programs

Boston, March 13, 2013 – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the storage and information management services company, is hosting its second annual Law Firm Information Governance Symposium from March 13-15 in Chicago, once again bringing together some of the leading information management thought leaders in the legal industry.

Over the three-day symposium, information management professionals will lead a series of workgroups examining best practices for tackling information governance in law firms. These professionals include the event’s steering committee members: Brianne Aul from Reed Smith LLP; Bryn Bowen from Greenheart Consulting Partners LLC; Leigh Isaacs from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP; Rudy Moliere from Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP; and Charlene Wacenske from Morrison & Foerster LLP. Then later this spring, Iron Mountain will publish their recommendations and invite reaction from the larger legal community. The 2013 report will build on “A Proposed Law Firm Information Governance Framework,” authored by last year’s symposium participants.

“In the year since the last symposium, we’ve seen an increase in the number of firms looking for guidance putting governance to work, as their clients want to know their outside counsel has protocols and processes in place to safeguard and manage access to their information,” said Carolyn Casey, Esq., senior manager, legal vertical for Iron Mountain. “The symposium participants have done amazing work to lead their industry and help establish common principles and best practices for information governance. Still, there’s a collective sentiment among this group that their work is far from finished, and an eagerness to build upon the platform established by last year’s symposium and report.”

The stakes for information governance remain high, as law firms evolve to address increasing security challenges, greater mobility of lawyers and clients, and growing pressure to make firms more cost efficient and competitive. In response to this, the symposium workgroups will focus on the “how to’s” of information governance while incorporating emerging trends facing information managers at law firms:

Information Governance “Start-up” – Building an information governance advisory board comprised of leaders representing multiple functions across the firm;
Designing Key Processes – How to apply information governance to key law firm processes, including information retention/disposition, matter lifecycle management, and information technology systems administration;
Securing Information – Guidelines and templates for assessing and managing information security risks;
Emerging Trends in Information Governance – Discussion and guidance on managing “Big Data” and massive volumes of information, new predictive coding applications for classifying information, and how firms are responding to the 24/7 information demands of mobile attorneys and clients.

For more information on Iron Mountain’s services for law firms, visit www.ironmountain.com/Solutions/Law-Firms.

About Iron Mountain Incorporated

Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) is a leading provider of storage and information management services. The company’s real estate network of 64 million square feet across nearly 1,000 facilities in 32 countries allows it to serve customers around the world with speed and accuracy. And its solutions for records management, data backup and recovery, document management, and secure shredding help organizations to lower storage costs, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and better use their information for business advantage. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain stores and protects billions of information assets, including business documents, backup tapes, electronic files and medical data. Visit www.ironmountain.com for more information.

Iron Mountain Launches Solution to Help Law Firms Reduce Costs of Records Storage and Improve Access to Information

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:25:00 -0500

Leveraging offsite records storage facilities and document scanning, law firms can reduce
operational costs, gain efficiency and improve client service

BOSTON (Jan. 30, 2013) – With law firms under pressure to control costs and improve client service, many are looking at how they store, manage and access their paper records to realize these savings and service gains. In response, Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) today announced the Total Offsite Records Solution for law firms, combining offsite records storage and document scanning. With the solution, firms can regain office space and become more efficient users and managers of their records by moving them to an Iron Mountain facility for centralized storage, management and scanning. As a result, law firms can make smarter use of their real estate and enable attorneys to access information from desktops and mobile devices, improving their productivity and client responsiveness.

“Law firms all agree that ‘going digital’ will give them faster access to files and lower the cost of records storage and management,” said Brian McCauley, director of Information Governance and Matter Management at McDermott Will & Emery LLP. “There’s little consensus on the best way to go about doing it, however, and it’s hard for information governance professionals to ensure the firm is following a single set of rules for this process when the scanning isn’t centralized. Iron Mountain’s solution gives law firms the ability to standardize their digitization process by moving paper records offsite for secure storage and easier scanning. Firms should embrace strategies like this to go digital cost effectively, freeing up premium office space for adding attorneys and gaining better security and governance over their paper records.”

As reported in the July 15, 2012, edition of the Wall Street Journal, a number of law firms have begun to pursue strategies for optimizing their use of office space (one of their biggest fixed costs), prompting many to rethink the common practice of maintaining onsite file rooms and records personnel. To reduce these costs and reclaim onsite storage rooms for revenue-generating activities, many law firms are digitizing their paper – swapping hard copy for electronic records and making it easier for their attorneys to find and access information in the process. It’s a costly and time-consuming project that can fail to deliver the desired savings and productivity gains unless firms have policies for records retention and overall governance.

Iron Mountain’s Total Offsite Records Solution is comprised of two main pieces:

Dedicated Offsite Records Center – Law firms can move both active and inactive records to an Iron Mountain records center, freeing up office space for revenue-generating activities and allowing information managers for the firm to focus on more strategic governance activities. Additionally, law firms gain greater storage capacity; document security; and space for preparing and viewing scanned records than they have managing records on-premises.
Go Digital Smart – Iron Mountain designs a customized digitization strategy based on the law firm’s culture and best practices to ensure attorneys have quick and secure access to information. Plus, through a partnership with DocSolid, a leader in document scanning solutions for the legal market, firms can enter documents scanned by Iron Mountain directly into their existing document management system. This integration ensures records are properly indexed and accessible from anywhere.

“Like other organizations, law firms are looking for ways to control costs and adopt new operational strategies to run their business more efficiently,” said Matt Kivlin, director of product management, Legal Solutions for Iron Mountain. “Our Total Offsite Records Solution helps law firms to lower their records management costs and find additional efficiencies through digitization. Law firms not only gain an operational and performance edge; they also strengthen their ability to manage information. This ‘two-for-one benefit’ supports many firms’ efforts to go digital and advance records staff to information governance and compliance roles.”

For more information on Iron Mountain’s Total Offsite Records Solution, visit www.ironmountain.com/Solutions/Law-Firms/Total-Offsite-Records-Solution-for-Law-Firms.aspx.

Iron Mountain at LegalTech New York 2013
On Jan. 31 at the LegalTech New York 2013 conference, Iron Mountain will participate in a pair of events on how law firms can gain control over information and improve governance, access and productivity.

Panel Discussion – This session titled “What is all the Hype about Information Governance?” will feature members of Iron Mountain’s law firm symposium steering committee. These leading law firm information governance directors will define information governance; outline key considerations for developing a program; and offer ideas for winning organizational buy-in.
Emerging Technology Showcase – Software maker Gimmal will join Iron Mountain to lead a discussion on how companies can use Microsoft® SharePoint® to establish a unified, consistent and defensive solution for managing both paper and electronic documents.

About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) is a leading provider of information storage and management solutions. The company’s real estate network of 64 million square feet across nearly 1,000 facilities in 32 countries allows it to serve customers around the world with speed and accuracy. And its solutions for records management, data backup and recovery, document management, and secure shredding help organizations to lower storage costs, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and better use their information for business advantage. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain stores and protects billions of information assets, including business documents, backup tapes, electronic files and medical data. Visit www.ironmountain.com for more information.

Iron Mountain Comments on August 24th Government Records Management Directive

Boston & Washington, DC, Aug. 29, 2012 – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, released the following response to the Managing Government Records Directive, issued Friday, Aug. 24, 2012 by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA):

By issuing its Managing Government Records Directive, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), have set forth an ambitious vision for a digital government, one that values openness, transparency and efficiency. In line with President Obama’s vision that records management is the backbone of open government, the Directive calls for federal agencies to manage records and information more efficiently. Such efficiencies will enable federal agencies to better assess the impact of programs, reduce redundant efforts, save money, and share knowledge.

To their credit, OMB and NARA have incorporated many records management best practices that have been proven out in our experience in private industry including: senior level accountability in the form of a new designated responsible party the “Senior Agency Official” (SAO), agency-wide training requirements, revised record scheduling and more. Moreover, the Directive recognizes the critical role OMB, NARA and other agencies will play in driving this initiative forward, outlining specific plans to support federal agencies in their push to achieve compliance. Still, while Iron Mountain credits the OMB and NARA for proposing such an ambitious vision, the company believes achieving it will be a tremendous undertaking that will require significant time and investment.

This view is supported by Iron Mountain’s recent survey of federal records managers, which found that despite near universal support for the President’s Memorandum, only 9 percent felt confident using newer technologies like cloud applications. Iron Mountain believes the ability to secure adequate budget for training, technology and consulting is a critical step for federal agencies to achieve compliance. The company believes that federal agencies should rely on best practices from the private sector and partner with it to secure these necessary resources. NARA’s plan to create a Community of Interest with industry experts in technology, records management and the legal field will help tremendously as well. Consequently, the private sector should stand ready to support the federal government on this ambitious but worthwhile plan.

As a starting point, Iron Mountain offers records managers our professional guidance on first steps to start on the path to compliance in our blog, “The Directive is out. Now what? – First Steps for Federal Records Managers to Start on the Path to Compliance.”

About Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) provides information storage and management services that help organizations lower the costs, risks and inefficiencies of managing their physical and digital data. The Company’s solutions enable customers to protect and better use their information so they can optimize their business and ensure proper recovery, compliance and discovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain manages billions of information assets, including business records, electronic files, medical data and more for organizations around the world. Visit www.ironmountain.com or follow the company on Twitter @IronMountain for more information.

Webcast: Iron Mountain CEO and AIIM President to Share Tips for Managing Paper and Electronic Records

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:59:38 -0400

BOSTON, Aug. 12, 2011 – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, will host Aug. 18 a free webcast on how organizations can better manage growing volumes of both paper and electronic data. Richard Reese, chairman and CEO of Iron Mountain, and John Mancini, president of AIIM, will overview the challenges facing today’s records managers and share ideas for cutting storage costs, increasing compliance and speeding business processes.

WHAT:	The 7 Ways to Thrive – Not Just Survive – in a Hybrid Records World webcast will help attendees: Avoid common errors associated with managing paper and electronic records; Understand best practices for developing and implementing legally defensible information management programs; and Establish a framework for storing and using email, social media content and other unstructured data.
WHEN:	Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011, 2 - 3 p.m. EST
TO REGISTER:	www.ironmountain.com/seven_ways_hybrid
PRESS CONTACT:	Christian T. Potts, public relations manager, Iron Mountain 617-535-8721 christian.potts@ironmountain.com

About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) provides information management services that help organizations lower the costs, risks and inefficiencies of managing their physical and digital data. The company’s solutions enable customers to protect and better use their information—regardless of its format, location or lifecycle stage—so they can optimize their business and ensure proper recovery, compliance and discovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain manages billions of information assets, including business records, electronic files, medical data, emails and more for organizations around the world. Visit www.ironmountain.com or follow the company on Twitter @IronMountain for more information.

Iron Mountain Completes $250 Million Prepaid Variable Share Repurchase Program

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:56:29 -0400

Boston, MA – August 2, 2011 – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, today announced that both of its prepaid variable share repurchase agreements have settled and that 7.5 million shares have been delivered to the Company and retired. This is another significant step towards the Company’s commitment to return $2.2 billion to shareholders through 2013 with $1.2 billion coming in the first year through May 2012. The shares were purchased over the three-month life of the agreements, originally entered into on May 3, 2011, at an average price of $33.16 per share for an aggregate total of $250 million. Through July 29, 2011, the Company has repurchased an aggregate of 12.7 million shares for a total cost of approximately $372 million over the life of its repurchase program, which began in the first quarter of 2010. The Company has approximately $828 million remaining under the existing authorization for future share repurchases as of July 29, 2011.

About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) provides information management services that help organizations lower the costs, risks and inefficiencies of managing their physical and digital data. The Company’s solutions enable customers to protect and better use their information—regardless of its format, location or lifecycle stage—so they can optimize their business and ensure proper recovery, compliance and discovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain manages billions of information assets, including business records, electronic files, medical data, emails and more for organizations around the world. Visit ironmountain.com for more information.

Iron Mountain Continues to Advance Its Strategic Agenda by Signing Definitive Agreement to Sell Certain Digital Solutions

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:42:32 -0400

Boston, MA – May 16, 2011 – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, continued to advance its strategic agenda with today’s announcement that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L) under which Autonomy will acquire Iron Mountain’s online backup & recovery, digital archiving and eDiscovery solutions for $380 million in cash. The acquisition is subject to regulatory review and customary closing conditions and is expected to close within approximately 45 to 60 days.

“This transaction is another significant step in delivering on the commitments we made in our three-year strategic plan announced in April and we are very pleased with the outcome of this process,” said Richard Reese, Iron Mountain’s Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “Autonomy is a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise assuring that our customers will be well serviced and our employees will have greater opportunities. This was the right transaction at the right time for our customers, our employees and our shareholders. As we move forward, Iron Mountain will continue to deliver technology services to solve our customers’ digital information management challenges through partnerships.”

Iron Mountain first entered the digital business 10 years ago as a natural extension of its core services to address a clear customer need. Recently the digital business faced a number of challenges resulting from a rapidly changing environment. In light of these factors, the Company undertook a strategic review of the digital business beginning last fall and concluded that it could not continue investing in technology development and meet its return requirements and that exploring strategic alternatives for the digital business was in the best interest of Iron Mountain’s stockholders.

Iron Mountain is not revisiting its full year 2011 guidance, last updated on April 28, 2011, at this time. The Company will update its guidance on its second quarter earnings conference call as appropriate. The Company will retain its software escrow business, which is currently included in its Worldwide Digital Business segment, and other technology services such as its Digital Record Centers for Images and Medical Images.

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated are serving as lead and co-financial advisors, respectively, and Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and Sullivan & Worcester LLP are serving as legal advisors to Iron Mountain.

About Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) provides information management services that help organizations lower the costs, risks and inefficiencies of managing their physical and digital data. The Company’s solutions enable customers to protect and better use their information—regardless of its format, location or lifecycle stage—so they can optimize their business and ensure proper recovery, compliance and discovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain manages billions of information assets, including business records, electronic files, medical data, emails and more for organizations around the world. Visit www.ironmountain.com for more information.

Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and federal securities laws, and is subject to the safe-harbor created by such Act and laws. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding the Company’s intentions and expectations. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results to be materially different from those contemplated in the forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to: (i) the cost to comply with current and future laws, regulations and customer demands relating to privacy issues; (ii) the impact of litigation or disputes that may arise in connection with incidents in which the Company fails to protect its customers’ information; (iii) changes in the price for the Company’s services relative to the cost of providing such services; (iv) changes in customer preferences and demand for the Company’s services; (v) the cost or potential liabilities associated with real estate necessary for the Company’s business; (vi) the performance of business partners upon whom the Company depends for technical assistance or management expertise outside the United States; (vii) changes in the political and economic environments in the countries in which the Company’s international subsidiaries operate; (viii) in the various digital businesses in which the Company is engaged, the Company’s ability to keep up with rapid technological changes, evolving industry expectations and changing customer requirements or competition for customers; (ix) the successful completion of our strategic alternative review process for the digital business; (x) claims that the Company’s technology violates the intellectual property rights of a third party; (xi) the impact of legal restrictions or limitations under stock repurchase plans on price, volume or timing of stock repurchases; (xii) the impact of alternative, more attractive investments to dividends or stock repurchases; (xiii) the Company’s ability or inability to complete acquisitions on satisfactory terms and to integrate acquired companies efficiently; (xiv) other trends in competitive or economic conditions affecting the Company’s financial condition or results of operations not presently contemplated; and (xv) other risks described more fully in the Company’s most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K under “Item 1A. Risk Factors” and other documents that the Company files with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time. Except as required by law, Iron Mountain undertakes no obligation to release publicly the result of any revision to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

Iron Mountain and GimmalSoft to Develop Solution that Lets Companies Manage both Paper and Electronic Records with Microsoft SharePoint®

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:51:08 -0400

BOSTON and HOUSTON – July 18, 2011 – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, and GimmalSoft, a provider of Information Lifecycle Solutions for SharePoint®, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop a solution for managing both physical documents and electronic files from within SharePoint 2010. The solution integrates SharePoint 2010 and Iron Mountain’s Accutrac software so that companies have a centralized means to access both paper and electronic documents, manage on- and off-site files, consistently classify data, apply legal holds and set retention periods. This capability will let companies classify and manage physical and electronic files more consistently, a key requirement for accessing information fast, meeting compliance regulations and being prepared for litigation.

“We are excited to partner with the Iron Mountain and GimmalSoft teams to extend the capabilities of SharePoint to meet our need to manage physical records,” stated Nishan DeSilva, a director in the Microsoft Legal and Corporate Affairs Organization. “This unified records management solution will allow people to access and manage all content, both on premises and offsite at Iron Mountain from a common SharePoint interface.”

“We are pleased to hear our good partners Iron Mountain and GimmalSoft have chosen to embrace and extend the SharePoint 2010 platform with additional physical records management capabilities,” stated Ryan Duguid, senior product manager, Microsoft SharePoint®. “Our partner ecosystem provides important and powerful extensions to SharePoint to solve real business problems for our common clients.”

“Many companies have adopted the use of SharePoint across their organizations and are experiencing difficulty in managing this information in a manner similar to their physical records,” said Richard Wilder, senior vice president, Iron Mountain. “Our partnership with GimmalSoft brings together our decades of records management expertise with GimmalSoft’s knowledge of SharePoint to create a comprehensive solution that helps our customers manage both physical and electronic records.”

“We will leverage our experience solving client problems and developing SharePoint solutions in the development of our records management solution. We are excited to team with an industry leader like Iron Mountain,” stated David Quackenbush, president, of GimmalSoft’s parent, Gimmal Group.

“We have significantly extended the native capabilities of SharePoint to provide users one solution for managing their records. It’s exciting,” stated Brad Teed, GimmalSoft’s chief technology officer.

This October, Iron Mountain and GimmalSoft will demonstrate the new solution at the SharePoint Conference in Anaheim, Calif. and at the ARMA International Conference in Washington, DC.

About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) provides information management services that help organizations lower the costs, risks and inefficiencies of managing their physical and digital data. The Company’s solutions enable customers to protect and better use their information—regardless of its format, location or lifecycle stage—so they can optimize their business and ensure proper recovery, compliance and discovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain manages billions of information assets, including business records, electronic files, medical data, emails and more for organizations around the world. Visit www.ironmountain.com or follow the company on Twitter @IronMountain for more information.

About GimmalSoft
GimmalSoft, a division of Gimmal Group, develops products built inside Microsoft SharePoint to provide enterprise content and records management. As a Microsoft ISV, GimmalSoft builds solutions inside SharePoint that harness the viral adoption of SharePoint to enable true enterprise solutions for electronic information and records management that reduce cost by taking advantage of a single content repository. GimmalSoft believes that partnerships within the Microsoft eco-system benefit clients by enabling a complete solution for their enterprise content and records management needs. GimmalSoft products and Gimmal solutions are deployed in government agencies and leading global companies across many industries. For more information, visit www.gimmalsoft.com.

Iron Mountain Appoints Ted R. Antenucci to its Board

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:19:49 -0400

BOSTON (June 30, 2011) – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the information management services company, today announced that Ted R. Antenucci, president and CEO of Catellus Development Corporation has joined its board of directors. Antenucci becomes Iron Mountain’s 12th director.

“As we undertake a review of strategic opportunities to maximize value to our shareholders, we wanted to add someone with strong real estate experience to our board,” said Richard Reese, Iron Mountain’s chairman and CEO. “We ran an extensive search, identifying several compelling candidates; and ultimately, we chose Ted for his experience in real estate acquisition, operations and capital allocation. We’re happy to have him on our board and look forward to his contributions.”

Antenucci, 46, became president and CEO of private real estate firm Catellus Development in March 2011. Additionally, until June 30, 2011, he served in the dual role as president and chief investment officer of ProLogis, positions he assumed in 2007. Prior to these roles, Antenucci served from 2005 to 2007 as president of global development for ProLogis, an industrial real estate investment trust. From 2001 to 2005, he was president of Catellus Commercial Development, a subsidiary of Catellus Development, until Catellus Development and ProLogis merged in 2005.

Antenucci is a member of the board of directors for Hudson Pacific Properties (NYSE: HPP), a public real estate investment trust. He is also on the board of trustees of the Children’s Hospital Foundation.

Antenucci holds a bachelor’s degree in business economics from the University of California Santa Barbara.

About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) provides information management services that help organizations lower the costs, risks and inefficiencies of managing their physical and digital data. The Company’s solutions enable customers to protect and better use their information—regardless of its format, location or lifecycle stage—so they can optimize their business and ensure proper recovery, compliance and discovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain manages billions of information assets, including business records, electronic files, medical data, emails and more for organizations around the world. Visit www.ironmountain.com for more information.

Iron Mountain and RegistryASP Enter into Agreement to Support ICANN’s New gTLD Program

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:15:52 -0400

BOSTON and MALAYSIA – June 20, 2011 – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, and RegistryASP, a leading domain name registry back-end provider, have entered into a co-referral agreement to better provide for applicants participating in the New Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) Program piloted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This agreement is being announced at the ICANN 41 meeting held in Singapore this week. Under the terms of this agreement, Iron Mountain will refer prospective gTLD Registry Operators to RegistryASP for registry services, and RegistryASP will refer prospective Registry Operators to Iron Mountain for data escrow services.

ICANN is the organization responsible for coordinating the Internet’s unique identifiers, including the domain name system (DNS). Introducing new gTLDs will help ICANN to promote competition in the domain name market while ensuring Internet security and stability. A gTLD is an Internet extension such as .COM, .ORG, or .INFO. It is part of the structure of the Internet’s domain name system.

There are roughly two dozen gTLDs now, but ICANN is expecting hundreds of applications to be submitted from companies, organizations and individuals once the New gTLD Program is officially launched. This co-referral agreement between RegistryASP and Iron Mountain leverages the operational synergies of the two companies in anticipation of the launch of the New gTLD Program in 2011 by ICANN.

“This is an exciting time for the domain name industry as companies, organizations and even individuals get to create their own unique identifier or extension on the Internet as opposed to .COM,” said TK Tan, CEO of RegistryASP. “It is extremely complex to launch a new gTLD and to run registry operations. Registry ASP has experienced consultants who have been through the processes and can confidently assist our customers with their new gTLD application, setting up a registry team and eventually running operations. We are delighted to partner with Iron Mountain – the preferred provider in the industry – to provide our clients with reliable and secure Registry Data Escrow services.”

Data escrow services are a requirement for setting up a new gTLD registry. A Registry Data Escrow agreement is put in place to ensure business continuity of the registry in the event of hardship faced by the existing owners of the registry. Iron Mountain was the first company ever selected to protect domain name registry data via escrow agreements, and has been doing so since 2001.

“As we countdown to the launch of the New gTLD Program, Iron Mountain and RegistryASP are confident that this relationship will provide value and benefits to our customers, essentially delivering a one-stop shop for consultation, registry back-end and data escrow services,” said John Boruvka, vice president of intellectual property management at Iron Mountain. “We are pleased that RegistryASP recognizes Iron Mountain’s expertise and market leadership in providing new gTLD applicants with registry data escrow services.”

About RegistryASP
RegistryASP is a leading registry backend provider that has a proven track record of operational performance and excellent customer support. RegistryASP provides registry services for Congo (.CD), Columbia (.CO), Hong Kong (.HK) and Singapore (.SG). In addition, RegistryASP provides customized registry components for Malaysia (.MY) and policy consultation services to Oman (.OM). For more information about RegistryASP, please visit www.registryasp.com.

About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) provides information management services that help organizations lower the costs, risks and inefficiencies of managing their physical and digital data. The Company’s solutions enable customers to protect and better use their information—regardless of its format, location or lifecycle stage—so they can optimize their business and ensure proper recovery, compliance and discovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain manages billions of information assets, including business records, electronic files, medical data, emails and more for organizations around the world. Visit www.ironmountain.com or follow the company on Twitter @IronMountain for more information.

Webinar: Iron Mountain’s Top Strategies for Improving Discovery

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:54:28 -0400

BOSTON, June 17, 2011 – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, will sponsor a free June 22 webinar on how large organizations can better prepare for legal discovery.

A 2010 Iron Mountain records compliance survey of general counsels, CIOs and records managers at nearly 3,500 organizations revealed that two in five (42 percent) struggle to find information in time to meet discovery deadlines, while 68 percent admit to having no formal program in place for accessing or managing electronic records during the discovery process. The reasons for this include growing data volumes and a “keep-everything” approach to records retention, driving up storage costs and making it tougher to find the right documents come discovery.

Hosted by Law.com, the webinar will overview the complexities behind complying with discovery requests. Sue Trombley, director of consulting for Iron Mountain, and enterprise consultant David E. Obarowski, Esq., will offer practical advice for improving enterprise records and information management programs. Attendees will also gain access to an exclusive copy of Iron Mountain’s new “Compliance Brief: The State of Electronics Records.”

WHAT:	The “Alleviate Discovery Pain: Revive Your Enterprise Information Management Approach” webinar will help attendees: Understand the information management issues at the heart of litigation and discovery requests; Establish compliant records and information management policies and procedures; Develop discovery-compliant records retention schedules to destroy information once it is not legally required; Apply discovery best practices to all types of information including paper, email and other electronic documents and data.
WHEN:	Wednesday, June 22, 2011, 1 p.m. ET
TO REGISTER:	http://www.ironmountain.com/discovery_pain
PRESS CONTACT:	Christian T. Potts, public relations manager, Iron Mountain 617-535-8721 christian.potts@ironmountain.com

Iron Mountain Incorporated Announces 33% Increase to Quarterly Dividend

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:50:34 -0400

Boston, MA – June 13, 2011 – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, announced today that its board of directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.25 per share, or $1.00 per share on an annualized basis, at its regularly scheduled meeting held on June 10, 2011. This is an increase of 33% over the quarterly dividend previously paid. The dividend is payable on July 15, 2011 to stockholders of record on June 24, 2011.

“This action taken by our Board, which follows the announcement of our $250 million variable stock purchase plan in May, represents another step in delivering on our commitment to return $2.2 billion of capital to stockholders through 2013, including $1.2 billion by May 2012,” said Richard Reese, Iron Mountain’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “The quarterly dividend is the foundation of our approach to shareholder payouts and we intend to increase our dividend as our earnings and cash flows grow. Today’s announcement demonstrates our Board’s confidence in our ability to grow our business profitably while returning significant amounts of capital to our stockholders.”

The declaration and payment of future quarterly dividends are in the discretion of the board of directors based on their determination that doing so is in the best interest of Iron Mountain stockholders.

About Iron Mountain

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This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and federal securities laws, and is subject to the safe-harbor created by such Act. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding the Company’s intent to pay dividends, the Company’s financial ability and sources to fund the dividend policy and the amounts of such dividends and statements regarding our goals, beliefs, future growth strategies, investment objectives, plans and current expectations. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results to be materially different from those contemplated in the forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to: (i) the price, volume or timing of stock repurchases may be impacted by legal restrictions or limits under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan; (ii) alternative, more attractive investments to dividends or stock repurchases that may become available; (iii) the cost to comply with current and future laws, regulations and customer demands relating to privacy issues; (iv) the impact of litigation that may arise in connection with incidents in which we fail to protect the Company’s customers’ information; (v) changes in the price for the Company’s services relative to the cost of providing such services; (vi) changes in customer preferences and demand for the Company’s services; (vii) the Company’s ability or inability to complete acquisitions on satisfactory terms and to integrate acquired companies efficiently; (viii) the cost or potential liabilities associated with real estate necessary for the Company’s business; (ix) the performance of business partners upon whom the Company depends for technical assistance or management expertise outside the United States; (x) changes in the political and economic environments in the countries in which the Company’s international subsidiaries operate; (xi) claims that the Company’s technology violates the intellectual property rights of a third party; (xii) other trends in competitive or economic conditions affecting Iron Mountain’s financial condition or results of operations not presently contemplated; and (xiii) other risks described more fully in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K under “Item 1A. Risk Factors.” Except as required by law, Iron Mountain undertakes no obligation to release publicly the result of any revision to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

Media Alert: Know the Stakes for Protecting Personal Information

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:11:46 -0400

BOSTON (March 9, 2011) – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, will host on March 15 a free webcast to help organizations understand and comply with the various regulations that govern information privacy.

The stakes for protecting customers’ personal information have never been higher as data breaches destroy consumer trust and incidents of non-compliance result in steep fines. But understanding and complying with these myriad of federal, state and industry-mandated regulations can challenge even the most sophisticated and conscientious organizations.

In this Law.com-sponsored webcast, “The World of Privacy Compliance: Make Sure You're Not Left Behind,” Charles H. Kennedy, partner, Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP will provide an overview of the regulatory landscape for information privacy and specifically discuss HIPAA, FACTA, PCI and select state laws. Attendees will have access to a Kennedy-authored whitepaper titled “Red Flag Regulations: A New Front Opens in the War on Identity Theft.”

WHAT:	Attendees will gain a better understanding of: State laws for data encryption and breach notification, as well as “must shred” rules; Industry-specific regulations like HIPAA/HITECH; Existing federal legislation, such as the Red Flag Rules for identity theft as well as international requirements.
WHEN:	Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 1 p.m. ET
TO REGISTER:	http://www.ironmountain.com/privacywebcast
PRESS CONTACT:	Christian T. Potts, public relations manager, Iron Mountain 617-535-8721 christian.potts@ironmountain.com

About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) provides information management services that help organizations lower the costs, risks and inefficiencies of managing their physical and digital data. The company’s solutions enable customers to protect and better use their information – regardless of its format, location or lifecycle stage – so they can optimize their business and ensure proper recovery, compliance and discovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain manages billions of information assets, including business records, electronic files, medical data, emails and more for organizations around the world. Visit www.ironmountain.com or follow the company on Twitter @IronMountain for more information.

Richard Reese Appointed Chief Executive Officer of Iron Mountain

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:11:46 -0400

BOSTON, Apr 14, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) - Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, today announced that Richard Reese, Chairman of the Iron Mountain Board of Directors, has been appointed Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Reese has served as Chairman of the Board since 1995 and was Iron Mountain's Chief Executive Officer from 1981 to 2008. He replaces Bob Brennan, who is stepping down as President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Brennan has also resigned as a director of the Company.

"On behalf of the Board of Directors, I would like to thank Bob for his many contributions to Iron Mountain since joining the Company in November 2004. Bob has successfully built on the Company's long track record of solid performance and improving results," said Kent Dauten, Lead Director of Iron Mountain's Board. "Our Board and management team have been diligently working on a three-year plan to drive returns and enhance stockholder value, focused on operating strategy, capital allocation discipline and commitment to returning cash to stockholders. As we move forward with the execution of our business plan, Bob and the Board agreed that the time is right to make this transition. We are confident that Richard's deep operational expertise and knowledge of our business will be instrumental to our success. We wish Bob all the best in his future endeavors."

Mr. Reese commented, "I am honored to have the opportunity to lead this organization and work once again with the talented group of people at Iron Mountain, as we continue to build value for our customers and stockholders alike. I look forward to discussing our plan with stockholders in the near future."

Mr. Brennan commented, "Iron Mountain has great employees, who are dedicated to serving customers by treating customers' information as if it were their own. I am proud of what we have accomplished together and confident in the Company's plan and future prospects."

Richard Reese Bio

Mr. Reese has been an Iron Mountain director since 1990. He has served as Chairman of the Board since 1995 and Chief Executive Officer from 1981 to 2008. Mr. Reese is a member of the investment committee of Schooner Capital LLC. He is also a director of Charles River Laboratories, Inc., a publicly held company. He holds both Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in engineering from Clemson University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School.

About Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) provides information management services that help organizations lower the costs, risks and inefficiencies of managing their physical and digital data. The company's solutions enable customers to protect and better use their information--regardless of its format, location or lifecycle stage--so they can optimize their business and ensure proper recovery, compliance and discovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain manages billions of information assets, including business records, electronic files, medical data, emails and more for organizations around the world. Visit www.ironmountain.com for more information.

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Iron Mountain and Key-Systems Create Program to Support new Internet gTLD Registry Applicants

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:56:00 -0400

BOSTON and ST. INGBERT, GERMANY – June 6, 2011 – Iron Mountain Incorporated(NYSE: IRM), the information management company, and Key-Systems, international domain registrar, have entered into a co-referral agreement to benefit applicants for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), which will expand the domain names on the Internet. Under the terms of this agreement, Iron Mountain will refer prospective gTLD Registry Operators to Key-Systems for registry services, and Key-Systems will refer prospective Registry Operators to Iron Mountain for data escrow services.

The Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the organization responsible for coordinating the Internet’s unique identifiers, including the domain name system (DNS). Introducing new gTLDs will help ICANN to promote competition in the domain name market while ensuring Internet security and stability. A gTLD is an Internet extension such as .COM, .ORG, or .INFO. It is part of the structure of the Internet’s domain name system.

Iron Mountain currently provides escrow services for the majority of today’s gTLDs and will offer its Registry Data Escrow services for the new gTLDs as well. Hundreds of new gTLD applications are expected to be submitted by companies and organizations once the New gTLD Program is officially launched, which is anticipated to happen later this year. Key-Systems' KSregistry provides features and functions to successfully operate a registry and is ideal for applicants for new gTLDs and companies planning to establish their name or brand as a new TLD. With this agreement with Iron Mountain, Key-Systems will now be able to offer full compliance with data escrow requirements as part of its services.

“The New gTLD Program by ICANN initiates a new era on the Internet – with more diversity and more ways of use in the domain name space,” said Alexander Siffrin, CEO of Key-Systems. “Key-Systems offers our customers comprehensive technical and consulting services for successfully operating such a new gTLD. We look forward to working with Iron Mountain – the recognized worldwide leader in registry data escrow – to provide our customers with this service.”

As the new gTLDs are created, their registries will be required to comply with data escrow requirements similar to those that ICANN maintains for existing gTLDs. This is to ensure the continuity of Domain Name System operations in the event of a physical, technical or business failure of a registry. Iron Mountain was the first company to protect domain name registry data via escrow agreements in 2001. Today, Iron Mountain’s global leadership in information management translates into the most comprehensive and trusted Domain Name Registry Data Escrow Services available.

John Boruvka, vice president of intellectual property management at Iron Mountain, added, “As ICANN begins to roll out the new gTLD application process, Iron Mountain is proud to work with Key-Systems, one of the world’s largest domain registrars, as it guides new gTLD applicants through domain registration, management, hosting and monitoring for their new domains. We’re pleased that Key-Systems values Iron Mountain’s expertise in providing safe and secure registry data escrow services, and that we are able to provide new gTLD customers assurance through our escrow services.”

About Key-Systems
Key-Systems is an international, ICANN accredited registrar, which currently administers more than 3 million domains for more than 70,000 retail and corporate customers and 1,700 resellers worldwide. The company is the second largest ICANN registrar in Europe and one of the 15 largest in the world (Source: webhosting.info). Key-Systems' headquarters are located in St. Ingbert/Germany. Furthermore, the company runs two subsidiaries in the USA and Mexico and owns a majority interest in the Polish registrar AZ.pl. Key-Systems' KSregistry provides features and functions to successfully operate a registry; the service is directed to applicants for new gTLDs and companies planning to establish their name or brand as a new TLD. For more information, visit www.key-systems.net.

About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) provides information management services that help organizations lower the costs, risks and inefficiencies of managing their physical and digital data. The Company’s solutions enable customers to protect and better use their information—regardless of its format, location or lifecycle stage—so they can optimize their business and ensure proper recovery, compliance and discovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain manages billions of information assets, including business records, electronic files, medical data, emails and more for organizations around the world. Visit www.ironmountain.com or follow the company on Twitter @IronMountain for more information.

Iron Mountain Completes Sale of Digital Business

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:50:00 -0400

Boston, MA – June 3, 2011 – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, announced today that it has completed the sale of its online backup & recovery, digital archiving and eDiscovery businesses to Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L) for $380 million in cash. The purchase price remains subject to a customary post-closing working capital adjustment. The signing of the definitive agreement for this transaction was originally announced on May 16, 2011.

As part of the sale, Iron Mountain has entered into an agreement with Autonomy to resell certain data backup and archiving solutions just acquired by Autonomy. These include data backup products Connected and LiveVault as well as the NearPoint archive, among others. Iron Mountain will rely on partnerships like this one to offer customers technology services for handling their digital data as a component of Iron Mountain’s overall information management solutions portfolio. As a leader in information management solutions, Iron Mountain is committed to helping customers solve their information management challenges for both physical and digital data.

Iron Mountain is not revisiting its full year 2011 guidance, last updated on April 28, 2011, at this time. The Company will update its guidance on its second quarter earnings conference call as appropriate. The Company will retain its software escrow business, which is currently included in its Worldwide Digital Business segment and other technology services such as its Digital Record Centers for Images and Medical Images.

About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) provides information management services that help organizations lower the costs, risks and inefficiencies of managing their physical and digital data. The Company’s solutions enable customers to protect and better use their information—regardless of its format, location or lifecycle stage—so they can optimize their business and ensure proper recovery, compliance and discovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain manages billions of information assets, including business records, electronic files, medical data, emails and more for organizations around the world. Visit www.ironmountain.com for more information.

Survey: Ninety Percent of Businesses Believe They Are Inefficient

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:48:00 -0400

BOSTON, May 31, 2011 – Despite near unanimous agreement that improving core business processes like contracts management, accounts payable and order fulfillment make more successful organizations, few companies understand how to improve these data-intensive processes. That’s according to a recent survey of 5,500 company records managers.

Conducted by Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, the survey on business efficiency asked respondents to weigh the importance of improving processes through better information management against the current state of those processes in their organizations.

The results reveal most are unhappy with how their core processes run, despite having formal programs for how their companies should manage information. The key findings include:

Efficiency is “mission critical” – 90 percent of respondents rank process efficiency as imperative to their business goals and to the overall success of their organization;
Most aren’t happy with their present processes – 93 percent of respondents are dissatisfied with their revenue-generating and business-support processes and/or are actively trying to improve them;
The urgency for improvement isn’t there… yet – More than half of respondents (58 percent) have not yet experienced a “trigger” event like an audit or lawsuit that would spur improvement of records and information management processes;
Structure is in place, but not everyone is following through – Three-quarters of respondents are managing their records and information themselves, but only 35 percent of the respondents believe their program is being used by everyone in the organization.

“Information drives businesses today and can be a real competitive advantage if managed properly and efficiently,” said Sue Trombley, director of consulting for Iron Mountain. “It plays a vital role in the revenue-generating and core operational processes that keep organizations running. And it can provide valuable insight into not just your own organization but your customers, your industry, your partners and your competitors. The right policies and procedures, implemented across the entire organization, efficiently executed and regularly enforced, can give you a tremendous opportunity to unlock this advantage.”

In response to these findings, Iron Mountain offers the following information management tips to unlocking records and information management efficiencies:

Eliminate obstacles to sharing information – Consider the utility of a piece of information within the organization: Does it need to be accessed by multiple departments? How often? Breaking the silos and single-ownership habits of information creation and management allows for easy sharing and ensures it can move freely in the organization;
Take paper out of the equation when you can – Digitizing or even removing paper from traditionally paper-heavy processes (such as travel and expense reimbursement) can streamline your business, making it easier to share and improve revenue-generating operations like accounts payable or billing;
Don’t be a “copycat” – Look for areas where redundant copies are slowing down your business and consider centralizing information for better access;
Be prepared – A defining characteristic of an efficient organization is a comprehensive disaster recovery and litigation readiness plan, ensuring that if something does happen, you have access to the critical information that keeps your business running;
Keep it simple, for agility’s sake – Simplifying your information management policies and procedures (e.g., reducing the number of “touches” and approvals needed for a document), will make it easier to adapt core processes in times of change or growth.

To learn more about creating a more efficient information organization, check out “The Results are in: Business Efficiency Survey Reveals an Opportunity for Organizations to get their ‘House’ in Order” Iron Mountain’s “Information Advantage” blog.

Iron Mountain and Central Registry Solutions Create Program to Support new gTLD Applicants

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:03:00 -0400

BOSTON and HERNDON, Va. (May 3, 2010) – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), and Central Registry Solutions (CRS), a provider of consulting, domain registration, and back-end registry services, today announced a co-referral program to benefit applicants for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) on the Internet.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has initiated a new opportunity for businesses and communities to define and acquire their own gTLDs – that is – choosing their own unique character string for the right-most position in a domain name, rather than merely choosing a subdomain under an existing gTLD such as .com or .net. The organization is preparing to accept new gTLD applications in 2010, when potentially hundreds of new gTLDs will be introduced to supplement the current 21 gTLDs in existence.

“ICANN is creating an unprecedented opportunity for corporations, organizations, special interest groups, and communities to create their own domain ending, opening up Internet-based identity and branding to all interested parties,” said Bill Gore, Chairman of the Board for Central Registry Solutions. “While CRS’s services will guide new gTLD applicants through the complexities of creating and running a new top-level domain, our program with Iron Mountain will enable new Registry Operators to ensure their domain is safeguarded with the industry’s premier registry escrow services.”

Under the terms of this referral program, Iron Mountain will refer prospective gTLD Registry Operators to Central Registry Solutions for registry services and CRS will refer prospective Registry Operators to Iron Mountain for data escrow services.

As the new gTLDs are created their registries will be required to comply with data escrow requirements similar to those that ICANN maintains for existing gTLDs. This is to ensure the continuation of Domain Name System operations in the event of a physical or business failure of a registry. In 2001, Iron Mountain was the first company selected to protect domain name registry data via escrow agreements. Today, Iron Mountain’s global leadership in information protection, management and storage translates into the most comprehensive and trusted Domain Name Registry Data Escrow Services available.

“We are pleased to partner with CRS as we both work with organizations exploring new domain opportunities,” said John Boruvka, vice president of intellectual property management at Iron Mountain Digital. “CRS understands that depositing registry data into secure escrow accounts managed by Iron Mountain helps safeguard the continuity of the Domain Name System across the Internet.”

As ICANN rolls out the new gTLD application process, Central Registry Solutions and Iron Mountain will be available resources to new gTLD applicants as they navigate the strategy, implementation, and protection of their new domains.

About Central Registry Solutions
Central Registry Solutions (CRS) is the world’s premier provider of registry solutions and will help companies seeking new gTLDs through the application process and beyond. CRS was formed as a joint venture between Network Solutions, LLC and CentralNic USA Ltd. The company provides consulting, domain registration, and other value added services to entities interested in offering new top level domains (TLDs). For more information, visit www.centralregistrysolutions.com.

About Iron Mountain Digital
Iron Mountain Digital is the world's leading provider of information management services for data protection and recovery, archiving, eDiscovery and intellectual property management. The technology arm of Iron Mountain Incorporated offers a comprehensive suite of solutions to thousands of companies around the world, directly and through a worldwide network of channel partners. Iron Mountain Digital is based in Southborough, Mass. For more information on Iron Mountain Digital’s Intellectual Property Management services, visit www.ironmountain.com/ipm.

Haynes and Boone, LLP Reduces eDiscovery Costs for its Clients with Iron Mountain eVantage Solution

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:01:00 -0400

Boston (May 4, 2010) - Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), an information management services company, today announced that Texas-based law firm Haynes and Boone, LLP has implemented the Iron Mountain eVantage solution as a firm-wide eDiscovery platform to manage client data and reduce costs associated with the growth of electronic information in litigation and regulatory matters. Iron Mountain’s eVantage™ solution helps law firms, enterprises and litigation service providers lower eDiscovery costs by providing on-site processing and early assessment capabilities to reduce the amount of data requiring attorney review. When it is time for substantive legal review, the eVantage solution can seamlessly feed the information to Iron Mountain’s Stratify Legal Discovery® Review solution, a cloud-based review platform.

Haynes and Boone already employed extensive technology to provide cost effective, expert legal services to its clients around the world. But as eDiscovery became a part of most matters, the firm sought a new approach for managing large volumes of unfiltered and duplicative client electronic data that must be assessed and prepared for attorney review. Working with the Iron Mountain eDiscovery team, Haynes and Boone developed a workflow using the eVantage solution to intake, analyze, and reduce the number of responsive documents needing attorney review. Prior to using the eVantage solution, either the firm or a third party vendor would process a much larger volume of documents for attorney review.

“Even though we are still in the implementation phase of using the eVantage solution the firm has achieved measurable improvements in how it manages client data,” said Thom Wisinski, Chief Knowledge Officer at Haynes and Boone. “In one of our first matters using the new workflow, we reduced the review data by 83 percent, resulting in significant cost savings for our client. Even technology-challenged attorneys now use eVantage analytics such as metadata-based search, domain-name filtering, and email-thread analysis to quickly analyze data and manage potential risks.”

Haynes and Boone selected Iron Mountain’s eVantage solution to support its strategy for managing client data because of these benefits:

Significant Cost Savings. Case teams at Haynes and Boone are now able to control processing costs for their clients by efficiently reducing the amount of data for legal review. And review costs are lower because lawyers spend fewer billable hours on the culled-down data. First-pass review and strategy development happen much faster with sophisticated filtering, culling and analytics applied upfront.
Easy Access to the Data. Haynes and Boone case teams can easily access the data on site in case the scope changes and they need to check for additional responsive documents. Attorneys can perform this work as a case evolves, with no additional burden to the client.
Legally Defensible Approach. The eVantage solution’s culling and analysis process, along with reporting capabilities provide a defensible basis for potential legal challenges down the road. Attorneys using eVantage analysis capabilities can validate that a collection was properly done, or sometimes find gaps to address. They can also filter out documents or eliminate duplicates and have an audit trail with updated eVantage filtering, matter processing and exception reports.
Efficient Work Flow. The substantive review phase is more efficient with the eVantage solution’s seamless transition to Iron Mountain’s Stratify Legal Discovery® hosted review. Review attorneys can re-use eVantage work product such as privilege tagging so attorneys don’t review and tag documents a second time. Tagging done in eVantage can also speed review workflow and assignments. In addition, eVantage exports to other review platforms if preferred.

Iron Mountain uniquely delivers end-to-end eDiscovery solutions consisting of Connected® Classify & Collect, simplified laptop and desktop data collection; NearPoint, on-site content archiving; eVantage, on-site data reduction and analysis; and Stratify Legal Discovery® hosted review and production services.

“We are very excited that Haynes and Boone chose Iron Mountain eVantage for its strategic approach to managing client eDiscovery costs and data,” said T.M. Ravi, chief marketing officer at Iron Mountain Digital. “Our enterprise clients tell us that controlling eDiscovery costs has become a top priority with the exponential growth in electronic content, and that they expect their law firms to find ways to lower eDiscovery costs. With its adoption of Iron Mountain eVantage, Haynes and Boone is at the forefront of meeting this challenge.”

About Haynes and Boone, LLP
Haynes and Boone, LLP is an international corporate law firm with offices in Texas, New York, California, Washington, D.C., Mexico City and Moscow, providing a full spectrum of legal services. With almost 550 attorneys, Haynes and Boone is ranked among the largest law firms in the nation by The National Law Journal. The firm has been recognized as one of the "Best Corporate Law Firms in America" (Corporate Board Member Magazine, 2001-2009), as one of "The Best 20 Law Firms to Work For" (Vault.com, 2009), and as a Top 100 law firm for both diversity (MultiCultural Law Magazine, 2009) and women (Women 3.0, 2008).

About Iron Mountain Incorporated
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) provides information management services that help organizations lower the costs, risks and inefficiencies of managing their physical and digital data. The company’s solutions enable customers to protect and better use their information—regardless of its format, location or lifecycle stage—so they can optimize their business and ensure proper recovery, compliance and discovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain manages billions of information assets, including business records, electronic files, medical data, emails and more for organizations around the world. Visit www.ironmountain.com or follow the company on Twitter www.twitter.com/IronMountainInc for more information.

Iron Mountain Calls on CMS to Expand Its Rules for e-Health Records

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:59:00 -0400

BOSTON (May 5, 2010) – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), an information management services company, recently called on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to expand its proposed rules for the “meaningful use” of electronic health records (EHR) so healthcare providers would be eligible to receive federal subsidies for digitizing paper records and scrubbing patient databases.

Iron Mountain made its recommendations to CMS in response to the agency’s Meaningful Use Notice of Proposed Rulemaking published in December.

In the regulation, CMS outlined 25 criteria that caregivers and hospitals must meet before they can receive reimbursement under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Missing though from CMS’s initial proposal are key first steps like scanning physical records and cleaning out patient databases that providers must do to implement EHR successfully.

“In hospitals today, managing patient records consists of an inefficient patchwork of systems, processes and decisions that have been made over many years,” said Ken Rubin, vice president and general manager of healthcare for Iron Mountain. “If a hospital has poor processes for storing and managing hardcopy medical records, simply digitizing them will only add to the mess, not help solve it. Health systems that first streamline their paper storage and workflows for handling records not only establish the right framework for EHR, they can also find as much as $1 million in savings to help fund their transition to electronic records.”

Having helped more than 100 hospitals make the switch from paper to electronic records, Iron Mountain advises healthcare providers to begin the EHR-conversion process by consolidating and organizing hardcopy records spread across their health system. This initial clean-up activity should also include improving the quality of Master Patient Index (MPI) data by scrubbing these databases for duplicate records and destroying them. Taking these steps lowers storage costs for the organization and provides caregivers with faster, more accurate access to a patient’s complete medical history and records.

Next, hospitals should comb through their records and destroy duplicates as well as those past their state-mandated retention period. A study from the American Health Information Management Association found that more than half of U.S. hospitals keep medical records forever. Destroying these outdated files and redundant copies cuts storage costs and makes digitization more cost-effective.

To reduce costs further, Iron Mountain recommends hospitals only digitize records on a go-forward basis and do so according to the patient’s medical history, rather than spending limited budgets to image all records.

Iron Mountain manages hardcopy and digital healthcare information for more than 2,000 hospitals across 43 states.

Iron Mountain and IACCM to Present Free Webinar on Software Licensing and Escrow Strategies

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:57:00 -0400

BOSTON – May 10, 2010 – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), an information management services company, together with the International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM) will present a live webinar on May 19 at 12 p.m. EDT.
The session, “Software Escrow & Verification: Practical Strategies for Bolstering Licensing Agreements,” will provide tips and share real-life experiences about using software escrow and verification to strengthen software licensing contracts.

What: Software Escrow & Verification:
Practical Strategies for Bolstering Licensing Agreements

When: Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 12–1 p.m. EDT, including Q&A period

Register: Click here or visit: www.ironmountain.com/iaccm

Who: Speakers include:

Tim Cummins, president and CEO, IACCM
John Boruvka, vice president of intellectual property management services,
Iron Mountain Digital
Cecilia M. Lim, J.D., senior manager of information management budget and controls, Florida Power & Light

Attendees will learn:

Risks of licensing software for business-critical applications;
Specific provisions to include when working with new and small software vendors;
Real-life lessons on how to incorporate escrow in contracts;
Licensing and escrow considerations for safeguarding cloud computing applications;
How to leverage a software escrow program to its fullest potential; and
How to negotiate an escrow agreement like an expert.

Attendees will receive:

Software Escrow for Dummies^®, a 44-page resource guide
Sample Software Escrow Agreements

About IACCM
IACCM is a global community of senior contracts, sourcing, and commercial management executives and managers. The organization’s mission is to help our worldwide members develop innovation, best practices, and operational excellence within their organizations, and ultimately, through sharing these goals and methods, to raise professional status and practices on an international basis. Our Membership consists of over 10,000 members and an extended network of more than 2,000 corporations from more than 100 countries.

Iron Mountain and Dell Deliver Integrated Email Archiving Solution

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:56:00 -0400

BOSTON (May 12, 2010) – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, today announced its Mimosa NearPoint™ solution is the first email archiving solution to be certified for the Dell™ DX Object Storage Platform. The newly launched Dell DX Object Storage Platform is an integrated hardware and software solution designed to efficiently access, store and distribute billions of files and other digital content. With the NearPoint solution, the unified content management offering will help organizations reduce the costs and risks of managing unstructured data from Microsoft® Exchange®.

“By combining Dell’s leading storage expertise with Iron Mountain’s experience in delivering rich, integrated information management solutions, we’re able to help more customers gain better control and use of their critical data,” said Ramana Venkata, president, Iron Mountain Digital. “This signifies a deepening of our relationship with Dell, and our shared vision to help businesses manage the costs as well as the compliance and legal risks associated with electronic information.”

Iron Mountain’s NearPoint solution coupled with the Dell DX Object Storage Platform helps customers address Exchange compliance and eDiscovery requirements by automating the archiving of e-mail directly to the Dell DX Object Platform. With Iron Mountain’s NearPoint solution, customers can archive compliant data through defined retention policies on the DX Object Storage Platform and handle risk-relevant data for eDiscovery purposes.

Iron Mountain’s NearPoint solution is an integrated archiving platform that provides complete data protection in one unified solution. By leveraging the Dell DX Object Storage Platform with Iron Mountain’s NearPoint solution, organizations can manage unstructured business critical data in ways that traditionally took multiple solutions to achieve in duplicated storage platforms.

“Data volumes are growing exponentially and organizations require integrated hardware and software solutions that enable them to efficiently store, manage and discover their digital content,” said Brett Roscoe, senior manager, Dell Enterprise Storage. “Working with Iron Mountain, we’re able to augment our storage platform with an industry-leading integrated content archiving solution from a proven information management leader.”

Iron Mountain and Dell have a long-term relationship focused on helping customers with their data protection, archiving, eDiscovery and compliance needs. Iron Mountain provides a broad range of information management solutions across the breadth of Dell storage platforms. Iron Mountain’s information management solutions are available as on-premise, cloud and hybrid solutions.

The Dell DX Object Storage Platform with Iron Mountain NearPoint will be available on May 12, 2010. For more information, please visit www.ironmountain.com/dell and www.dell.com/datamanagement

About Iron Mountain Digital
Iron Mountain Digital is the world’s leading provider of information management services for data protection and recovery, archiving, eDiscovery and intellectual property management. The technology arm of Iron Mountain Incorporated offers a comprehensive suite of solutions to thousands of companies around the world, directly and through a worldwide network of channel partners. Iron Mountain Digital is based in Southborough, Mass.

Understanding What It Takes to Put a Medical Image Archive in “Neutral”

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:53:00 -0400

Boston (May 14, 2010) – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, will hold a Web seminar May 18 for hospitals considering a central archive for MRIs, X-rays, CT scans and other patient data that is spread across separate technology systems.

The buzz surrounding centralized image-management platforms, or vendor neutral archives (VNAs), is growing, but the hype is also causing confusion over what these systems should offer. A VNA centralizes the storage and management of medical images from a healthcare organization’s various picture archiving and communications systems (PACS). But many VNAs are not truly neutral in their ability to link systems made by different companies; rather, they serve only as extensions to a single PACS archive, making it harder for caregivers to access and share information. A VNA should be able to manage medical images wherever they reside, on-premises or remotely in the cloud. This capability ensures better business continuity and greater control over the long-term preservation of medical images.

The Web seminar, hosted by Healthcare IT News, will feature the “PACSman,” Michael J. Cannavo, president of Image Management Consultants, and Ken Rubin, general manager of Healthcare Services for Iron Mountain.

WHAT: Titled Vendor Neutral Archives: Separating Fact from Fiction and Cutting through the Hype, this Web seminar will help attendees:

Distinguish a true VNA from claims of neutrality;
Determine the differences between an enterprise archive, a DICOM archive and a vendor neutral archive;
Identify if they would benefit from a vendor neutral archive;
Understand why it is difficult for image storage to be truly ‘vendor neutral’;
Develop strategies for centralizing images using cloud storage.

WHEN:
May 18, 2010, 2 p.m. ET

ACCESS:
www.ironmountain.com/vnafacts

PRESS CONTACT:
Christian T. Potts, public relations manager, Iron Mountain
617-535-8721
christian.potts@ironmountain.com

About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) provides information management services that help organizations lower the costs, risks and inefficiencies of managing their physical and digital data. The company’s solutions enable customers to protect and better use their information—regardless of its format, location or lifecycle stage—so they can optimize their business and ensure proper recovery, compliance and discovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain manages billions of information assets, including business records, electronic files, medical data, emails and more for organizations around the world. Visit www.ironmountain.com or follow the company on Twitter at www.twitter.com/IronMountainInc for more information.

Iron Mountain Data Center Named to InfoWorld Green 15

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:51:07 -0400

BOSTON (April 23, 2010) – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), an information management services company, announced today that one of its underground data centers has been named to IDG’s InfoWorld Green 15, an annual ranking of the most innovative green IT projects. The Green 15 recognizes organizations from around the world that have embraced green technology to drive projects and develop products aimed at boosting energy efficiency, trimming waste, and reducing or eliminating the use or the production of harmful substances.

Average data centers require enormous energy to power and cool stacks of computer servers that must run year round. Seeking to cut this energy consumption for the massive volumes of customer data it manages, Iron Mountain conceived and built “Room 48,” a highly efficient data center located 200 feet underground in a former limestone mine in Western Pennsylvania.

Room 48 is two times more efficient than traditional data centers because it takes advantage of its unique subterranean environment. The mine’s steady temperature of 55 degrees and the sponge-like ability of the limestone walls to absorb heat eliminate the need for typical data center cooling systems that consume large amounts of power and squeeze space.

“We are honored to be named among the greenest IT projects in the world,” said Bill Brown, senior vice president, chief information officer, Iron Mountain. “Our customers require us to manage their digital information in a way that's secure and accessible, but also cost-effective and efficient. Our data centers, and particularly Room 48, provide that security, access and efficiency. Room 48 uses nature’s ‘technology’ and offers a blueprint for creating a new kind of data center that harnesses both technology and unique natural properties."

Room 48 rejects traditional datacenter designs in favor of concepts that reduce the amount of heat emitted inside the room. Among these strategies is a “cool-air containment” configuration that increases cool-air flow between server racks and ceiling vents. The room is also staffed only 20 percent of the time allowing it to utilize motion-sensor, low-heat lighting. Cooling units sit outside the room, which operates at 2-3 degrees warmer than traditional datacenters. These design modifications and others have combined to boost the datacenter’s power efficiency by 50 percent, improve space efficiency by 30 percent and drastically reduce both energy consumption and costs.

“This year's crop of Green 15 winners demonstrates how organizations of all sizes are finding innovative ways to use information technology to achieve critical and often complementary environmental and business objectives,” said Ted Samson, senior analyst, InfoWorld. “Increasingly, companies are moving beyond out-of-the-box products and siloed approaches to making IT itself greener. They’re leveraging technology as part of a broader, holistic effort to make operations as a whole greener.”

To view an exclusive slideshow of photos of Room 48, please visit http://www.ironmountain.com/make-every-day-earth-day.

About InfoWorld Media Group
InfoWorld Media Group helps IT decision makers choose the right technology, within the context of a cohesive strategy for business impact at their organizations. InfoWorld identifies and promotes emerging technology segments that add unique value for the organizations that implement them, as well as the vendors that provide those solutions. Using an integrated communications approach including online, events, research, and a continued investment in an independent Test Center, InfoWorld analysts and editors provide hands-on analysis and evaluation, as well as expert commentary on issues surrounding emerging technologies and products. Visit InfoWorld at http://www.infoworld.com.

About International Data Group
International Data Group (IDG) is the world's leading technology media, events, and research company. IDG’s online network includes more than 450 web sites spanning business technology, consumer technology, digital entertainment and video games worldwide. IDG also publishes more than 300 magazines and newspapers in 85 countries. IDG's media brands include CIO, CSO, Computerworld, GamePro, InfoWorld, Macworld, Network World, and PC World. IDG’s lead-generation service, IDG Connect, matches technology companies with an audience of engaged, high-quality IT professionals, influencers, and decision makers. IDG is a leading producer of more than 750 technology-related events including Macworld Conference & Expo, LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, Entertainment for All Expo (E for All), DEMO, Storage Networking World, and IDC Directions. IDC, a subsidiary of IDG, is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events. Over 900 IDC analysts in more than 90 countries provide global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends. Additional information about IDG, a privately held company, is available at http://www.idg.com.

Iron Mountain Redefines Hosted eDiscovery with Free Early Stage Filtering, and Powerful Low-Cost Review

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:50:00 -0400

Boston (May 19, 2010) – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, today announced the release of Stratify Legal Discovery® OnPoint, a new hosted eDiscovery offering that simplifies eDiscovery while reducing costs by delivering free processing and loading of unlimited data for early stage filtering to drive high-productivity review. Hands-on control of data from the start of a matter coupled with advanced analytics and filtering technologies will enable attorneys to leapfrog linear review methodologies while establishing a defensible process for selecting responsive data. A one-time fee starting at $500 per gigabyte pertains only to reviewable data.

“With this offering, Iron Mountain is disrupting cloud-based eDiscovery by removing the price barrier to early stage filtering regardless of data volumes, extending its flexible, easy to use review capabilities, and providing clients with one-stop-shop accountability,” said Vivian Tero, program manager, Governance, Risk, & Compliance Infrastructure, IDC. “Iron Mountain is making a compelling case for simple, cloud-based eDiscovery that enables corporate counsel and their outside counsel to aggressively reduce costs without sacrificing any of the advanced capabilities or service levels that are required for successful eDiscovery.”

Free and unlimited early stage filtering of ever-increasing data volumes and low-cost review provide attorneys the flexibility and control they need to manage their matters efficiently, increase review productivity and accuracy, and satisfy increasing regulatory and judicial expectations within tight timeframes. Stratify Legal Discovery OnPoint’s analytical techniques, including enterprise-grade search, metadata-based faceted search, automatic concept organization, and random sampling technologies contribute to a defensible process for selecting responsive data. Throughout the duration of each matter, attorneys can return to the full volume of restored, unfiltered data to identify additional documents to be included in the review interface.

“As the eDiscovery market has rapidly evolved, we’ve been asking our clients how the next generation of Stratify Legal Discovery could best meet their needs,” said Ramana Venkata, president, Iron Mountain Digital. “By leveraging Iron Mountain’s investment in advanced eDiscovery technologies, a global client services organization, and highly scalable cloud datacenters, the new paradigm we are introducing with Stratify Legal Discovery OnPoint achieves our clients’ key objectives: simple eDiscovery with intelligent technologies to aggressively reduce costs.”

The intuitive interface of Iron Mountain’s Stratify Legal Discovery OnPoint provides clients with an advanced set of eDiscovery analytics to increase review productivity. Clients can also choose to supplement their review with advanced capabilities to support complex languages and/or multi-party/review team and automated workflows based on the requirements of the matter.

In conjunction with the new offering, Iron Mountain is adding functionality to Stratify Legal Discovery to accelerate early stage filtering, enhance reviewer efficiencies and facilitate quality control. These enhancements include:

Random Sampling – Attorneys can randomly sample the document universe to identify key custodians and keywords for filtering, configure Smart Issue folders and develop automated workflows to guide the review. Random sampling techniques also enable attorneys to effectively and efficiently validate and check tagging, review accuracy, reviewer quality, and document productions, especially in large or complex legal matters.

Advanced IBM Lotus Notes® Support – Stratify Legal Discovery will now render Lotus Notes emails and complex form types containing semantically rich presentation with Notes native “look and feel” to ensure accurate review. While preserving compound documents and custom forms and layouts characterized by rich text data including fonts and formatting, Notes security credentials are managed automatically, and potential different representations of email sender and/or recipient information are also retained ‘as is.’

About Iron Mountain Digital

Iron Mountain Digital is the world’s leading provider of information management services for data protection and recovery, archiving, eDiscovery and intellectual property management. The technology arm of Iron Mountain Incorporated offers a comprehensive suite of solutions to thousands of companies around the world, directly and through a worldwide network of channel partners. Iron Mountain Digital is based in Southborough, Mass.

About Iron Mountain Incorporated

Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) provides information management services that help organizations lower the costs, risks and inefficiencies of managing their physical and digital data. The company’s solutions enable customers to protect and better use their information—regardless of its format, location or lifecycle stage—so they can optimize their business and ensure proper recovery, compliance and discovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain manages billions of information assets, including business records, electronic files, medical data, emails and more for organizations around the world. Visit www.ironmountain.com or follow the company on Twitter www.twitter.com/IronMountainInc for more information.

Iron Mountain Enhances Market-Leading Cloud-Based Server Data Protection Solution for Mid-Sized Enterprises

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:48:00 -0400

BOSTON (May 25, 2010) – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, today announced the availability of LiveVault 7.0, a solution designed to meet the application and server backup needs of mid-sized companies. Iron Mountain’s cloud-based data protection solution comes with increased scalability to protect large servers and environments and built-in data deduplication technology.

The LiveVault solution is a fully managed, cloud-based data protection solution with proactive administration and monitoring. Iron Mountain manages not only the storage and protection of the information, but also the data protection processes, removing the burden of backup tasks from IT administrators so that they can focus on business-critical projects.

The latest version of LiveVault allows customers to protect seven terabytes of data per server and restore data fast through the TurboRestore™ onsite appliance. LiveVault 7.0 also includes enhanced vulnerability management and threat detection programs to safeguard customer information.

“In California, earthquakes are a part of life, so we need to ensure our data is protected and available should a catastrophic event occur,” said Mark Heryer, IT manager, Pipeline Systems, Inc., a world leader in pipeline engineering services. “LiveVault is an incredible data protection offering compared to traditional tape and in-house data deduplication. No other cloud-based backup solution in the market comes close. The solution is one of the best ideas I have seen for the cloud and I have peace of mind knowing my data is safe and protected with Iron Mountain.”

“The enhancements made in Iron Mountain’s LiveVault 7.0 help IT organizations in mid-sized businesses address the information management challenges resulting from relentless data growth and greater dependence on digital content,” said Lauren Whitehouse, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “Iron Mountain embodies robustness as a cloud data protection provider and offers businesses a full spectrum of information management solutions.”

For the initial deployment of the solution, customers can use a LiveVault data shuttle service to transfer multi-terabytes of data quickly and securely to Iron Mountain’s underground data centers. In the event of disaster recovery or large data restores, the service allows customers to restore server data at Iron Mountain’s data center and have it shipped to them potentially before their electricity or Internet services are even available.

“We’ve seen a growing interest among mid-sized companies to use the cloud for protecting data. Our LiveVault solution accommodates their needs through a managed service without the headaches of traditional backup architecture,” said T.M. Ravi, chief marketing officer, Iron Mountain Digital. “Customers can protect their servers in a heterogeneous environment with built-in data deduplication. They can also reduce the risks and costs associated with their information, while optimizing the value of their information by leveraging Iron Mountain’s solutions for archiving and eDiscovery.”

For more information about the LiveVault 7.0 solution, visit http://www.ironmountain.com/livevault/

About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) provides information management services that help organizations lower the costs, risks and inefficiencies of managing their physical and digital data. The company’s solutions enable customers to protect and better use their information—regardless of its format, location or lifecycle stage—so they can optimize their business and ensure proper recovery, compliance and discovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain manages billions of information assets, including business records, electronic files, medical data, emails and more for organizations around the world. Visit www.ironmountain.com or follow the company on Twitter www.twitter.com/IronMountainInc for more information.

International Litigation Services Chooses Iron Mountain eVantage for Early Case Assessment to Reduce Client Costs and Risks

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:44:00 -0400

Boston (June 14, 2010) – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, today announced that International Litigation Services, Inc. (ILS), a premier provider of litigation support and electronic discovery services for law firms and corporate legal teams, has adopted Iron Mountain eVantage™ to augment its growing eDiscovery business. ILS will use eVantage onsite processing and powerful analytics to rapidly filter out non-responsive data according to their client’s instructions, before they transition the reduced data set to the Iron Mountain Stratify Legal Discovery® Service so their law firm clients can conduct hosted review.

Known for its specialization in international and multiparty cases, ILS sought early case assessment technology as a solution to augment its ability to manage very large volumes of multilingual data and answer a growing demand among its clients to cull and analyze data before legal review. The more data ILS can filter out using eVantage, the less its clients pay for legal review.

“The eVantage rapid onsite processing and analytical capabilities were at the heart of our decision,” said Joe Thorpe, managing director, ILS. “We can now quickly help clients eliminate non-responsive data from legal review and begin foreign language translations sooner because the solution automatically identifies them for us. We were already using the Stratify Legal Discovery review platform, so adding eVantage completes our workflow, from early assessment right through substantive review, improving efficiencies and lowering our clients’ costs.”

“We are excited that ILS has made the strategic decision to use Iron Mountain eVantage to manage the amount of client data needing costly legal review, as well as foreign language translation,” said T.M. Ravi, chief marketing officer, Iron Mountain Digital. “Litigation support service providers are looking for ways to increase efficiencies and provide high quality results to their clients at lower costs. The combination of Iron Mountain’s on-premises early case assessment and hosted legal review is proving to be a winning combination for service providers and their clients.”

Iron Mountain eVantage offers ILS these powerful analytical capabilities and benefits:

Multi-Language Capabilities. eVantage automatically identifies multi-language documents, including Chinese, Korean and Japanese, and organizes them into folders for ILS to quickly translate the documents and emails needed for law firm substantive review.
Concept Clustering. ILS leverages the eVantage concept clustering ability to quickly analyze data based on key issues as identified by clients. ILS clients use the search results to prepare for “meet and confer” discussions with the opposition, required by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure shortly after initiation of litigation.
Metadata Analysis. ILS uses eVantage metadata search capabilities to filter out non-responsive data per client instructions and to help clients ascertain who knew what, when. This is particularly beneficial in the class action work ILS conducts given the massive amounts of emails and documents.
Integrated with Hosted Review. ILS partners with Iron Mountain to simplify eDiscovery. Integrated early case assessment solution with the Legal Discovery hosted review platform makes eDiscovery more efficient and simple. ILS tags (e.g. privileged, relevant, not-relevant) can be transitioned to the hosted review platform where review managers use them to improve productivity of the review workflow further lowering costs for clients.

Iron Mountain delivers a range of eDiscovery products and services including Connected® Classify & Collect for collecting laptop and desktop data; NearPoint for content archiving for retention management and legal holds; eVantage for onsite filtering, culling and analysis; and Stratify Legal Discovery® for hosted review services.

About ILS
Founded in 1988, ILS is a premier provider of discovery management, electronic discovery and litigation support services to law firms and corporate legal departments. The company supports firms facing complex litigation and regulatory investigations. ILS delivers a strategic and technical advantage through advanced electronic discovery, experienced project management, and provides critical skill sets with integrated electronic and paper-based collections.

Iron Mountain and InterVision Expand Partnership to Deliver NearPoint and NetApp-Enabled Content Archiving

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:42:00 -0400

BOSTON (June 15, 2010) – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, has expanded its partnership with InterVision to allow the Santa Clara, Calif. IT firm to offer users of NetApp and Microsoft Exchange Iron Mountain’s newly-acquired NearPoint^TM solution for archiving, accessing and protecting email. InterVision’s customers can now enjoy high performance, manageability and lower operating costs by combining leading technology from NetApp and Iron Mountain in a single integrated solution for managing Microsoft Exchange.

The Iron Mountain NearPoint archive leverages NetApp’s Snapshot^TM technology as the source for archived data and the compliant archival of data capture for all Microsoft Exchange database transactions and events. This includes all email moves, message deletes, calendar items and contacts. In addition, the integration simplifies application data management by leveraging NetApp’s SnapManager for Microsoft Exchange, which automates the complex, manual, and time-consuming processes associated with the backup, recovery, and verification of Exchange Server databases while eliminating the need to implement Microsoft Exchange Journaling.

“InterVision is a leading solutions provider with deep domain expertise in the areas of storage, virtualization and messaging, and we look forward to our expanded partnership with them,” said T.M. Ravi, chief marketing officer, Iron Mountain Digital. “The combination of their services and our enterprise-class archiving solutions gives companies using Microsoft Exchange and NetApp the complete solution they need to ensure they can retain, search, and recover email, while reducing the cost and risks of storage and management.”

“Iron Mountain NearPoint is a natural addition to our other email archiving solutions because of its integration with NetApp storage systems,” said Sean McGrath, director of systems and storage, InterVision. “More than 90 percent of our customers deploy virtualization technology to lower their storage costs. The Iron Mountain NearPoint solution is an ideal fit for these customers because it allows them to move primary Exchange data off of expensive tier-one storage systems into Iron Mountain’s integrated archive. This unified solution is a fit for InterVision as we help our customers address their business requirements in more efficient and cost effective ways.”

The Iron Mountain NearPoint solution also integrates with several other NetApp technologies, including NetApp SnapManager for SQL Server, SnapDrive^®, SnapMirror^® and FlexVol^®. The integration leverages NetApp’s cascading Snapshot technology for archived data protection, resulting in a combined solution that shrinks the storage footprint and makes it easier to deploy, faster to recover and more cost effective to manage.

“By combining NetApp storage solutions and the Iron Mountain NearPoint solution for email archiving, InterVision is helping to reign in management costs often associated with storing, retaining, retrieving and recovering Exchange data,” said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Solutions and Alliances for NetApp. “InterVision customers will continue to see dramatic cost savings through the combination of NetApp and NearPoint.”

Prior to Iron Mountain’s acquisition of Mimosa Systems in February, Mimosa and NetApp announced an expanded integration partnership in October 2009, which enabled the development of a comprehensive solution for integrated content archiving, storage management and data protection for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint environments. The Iron Mountain NearPoint solution was recently installed as the only email archiving solution at NetApp’s Sunnyvale, CA Executive Briefing Center.

About InterVision Systems
InterVision Systems is an innovative infrastructure solutions and consulting company, designing and implementing end-to-end technology solutions for enterprises, service providers, technical computing companies and e-businesses. The company acts as a trusted advisor to our clients, offering best-of-breed solutions in Storage, Networking, Security, and Messaging solutions, with an objective to architect and implement a solution with our client’s best interests being paramount. Founded in 1993, InterVision has been successfully helping companies meet their business objectives with technology solutions designed specifically for them, allowing them to focus on their core competencies and compete efficiently in the marketplace long term. For more information, visit: http://www.intervision.com.

NetApp, the NetApp logo, and Go further, faster are trademarks or registered trademarks of NetApp, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.

Iron Mountain's New Litigation Support Solution Cuts Cost and Complexity of Discovery

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:40:02 -0400

Visit Iron Mountain at the 2010 AIIM International Exposition & Conference in Booth #2219

BOSTON (April 20, 2010) – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), an information management services company, today introduced the Iron Mountain Litigation Support Solution, a new offering to help enterprises find and organize their paper information when preparing for and responding to litigation. Combining records management technology with consulting, Iron Mountain’s Litigation Support Solution helps organizations quickly sift through their stores of hardcopy records and digitize documents so they can be processed more efficiently for legal review. By converting paper documents into electronic files, companies can enable a seamless process for discovering physical and digital information spread across their organization, cutting cost and complexity while improving compliance.

Iron Mountain’s Litigation Support Solution comprises the company’s records management software, document scanning, and integration with review and archiving services, providing a suite of tools for accessing hardcopy information, digitizing it and readying it for legal review. Once digitized, companies can load information directly into an electronic discovery (eDiscovery) service, such as Iron Mountain’s Stratify Legal Discovery®, enabling them to move quickly to early-case assessment, document review and production. In addition, organizations can leverage Iron Mountain’s consulting expertise to set records policies like retention schedules and legal holds for managing information and the discovery process.

Iron Mountain’s Litigation Support Solution also helps organizations create an information management program that meets complex litigation and discovery requirements by ensuring full chain of custody and accountability. In doing so, Iron Mountain’s Litigation Support Solution improves regulatory compliance, reduces the complexity of the discovery process, increases response time, and helps mitigate the mounting costs of litigation.

“Our customers are coming to us, as the keepers of their information, and asking us to help them make sure they can find information quickly and cost-effectively in the event of litigation,” said Chris Churchill, vice president of Document Management Solutions for Iron Mountain. “Because we often already store their critical information, we can image and deliver those documents electronically for litigation review without them ever leaving the security of our records centers or incurring transportation costs. Combined with Iron Mountain’s Stratify eDiscovery services, we can provide a complete package for dealing with litigation and discovery quickly, effectively and efficiently.”

Litigation, Cost on the Rise

Putting the people, processes and technology in place to respond effectively to litigation requests has become an area of intense focus for organizations, leading to a sharp rise in litigation spending. In the 2009 edition of the annual Litigation Trends Survey Report, international law firm Fulbright & Jaworski reported that more than half (53 percent) of the 408 companies surveyed spend $1 million or more on the litigation process every year. Since 2007, three times as many small companies (those with less than $100 million in revenue) are spending more than $1 million annually on litigation, growing from 4 percent to 13 percent. Among mid-size companies, or those with revenues between $100 million-$999 million, the percentage spending more than $1 million climbed from 26 to 38 percent.

“In today’s increasingly regulated and litigious business environment, managing legal discovery and risk mitigation, improving business processes, and controlling costs have become critical to corporate success,” said Jarad Carleton, principal consultant, Information and Communication Technologies Practice, Frost & Sullivan. “Iron Mountain’s Litigation Support Solution portfolio of services addresses each of these key areas and raises the bar on litigation readiness, allowing companies to more quickly respond to discovery while helping them to contain legal fees. For those organizations focused on business strategy, process improvement, risk mitigation, and cost reduction, a comprehensive set of services and expertise like this can provide true bottom-line impact for their business.”

Iron Mountain’s Litigation Support Solution features capabilities for responding to both immediate and future litigation, including:

Litigation imaging workflow – ensures security, control and compliance throughout the entire physical-to-digital conversion process with options for Bates numbering, subjective and bibliographic coding, and logical document determination for increased speed and greater accuracy during the review process;
Integration with eDiscovery solutions – enables the central management of the entire discovery portfolio while reducing cost and risk, identifying the records needed for a particular litigation and rapid document review for production;
Consistent records management – standardized management of both active and inactive records regardless of location or format, allowing for scheduled and secure retrieval/ delivery, search, access, tracking, management, and policy application with clear audit trails;
Consulting expertise – Iron Mountain’s consulting team advises companies on the information management and discovery lifecycle, including developing retention schedules, identifying key records and building discovery response processes.

Iron Mountain will join with AIIM for an April 28 Webinar on the topic of litigation preparedness that will feature Susan Trombley, director of eRecords Practice for Iron Mountain. The Webinar will offer tips for dealing with the discovery process, from identifying the most susceptible business content to employing records retention schedules for containing cost and risk. The Webinar will also outline proper strategies for managing records and setting effective legal hold processes. For more information or to register, visit http://www.ironmountain.com/company/Are-you-Ready-for-Litigation-.html.

About Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) provides information management services that help organizations lower the costs, risks and inefficiencies of managing their physical and digital data. The company’s solutions enable customers to protect and better use their information—regardless of its format, location or lifecycle stage—so they can optimize their business and ensure proper recovery, compliance and discovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain manages billions of information assets, including business records, electronic files, medical data, emails and more for organizations around the world. Visit www.ironmountain.com or follow the company on Twitter at www.twitter.com/IronMountainInc for more information.

Iron Mountain Announces New Tiered Offering for Registry Data Escrow to Support ICANN’s New gTLD Initiative

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:40:00 -0400

BOSTON (June 21, 2010) – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, today announced a new tiered offering for its Registry Data Escrow service to meet the needs of registry operators as they introduce new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). With the rapid expansion of Internet use worldwide, ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, is implementing an initiative to expand the domain name space to include an array of new gTLDs. Preparation for the expansion of the gTLD space will be a major theme of the 38^th ICANN International Meeting held in Brussels on June 20 – 25, where Iron Mountain will sponsor and exhibit.

ICANN is poised to authorize the creation of potentially hundreds of new gTLDs over the next two to three years, supplementing the 22 gTLDs currently in existence – such as .com, .net and .org. Iron Mountain provides escrow services for the majority of today’s gTLDs and will offer its Registry Data Escrow services for the new gTLDs as well.

All gTLDs require daily escrow of their authoritative data as part of their Registry Agreement with ICANN. Iron Mountain’s latest offering for its Registry Data Escrow service is based on the number of domain names registered under a given gTLD, rather than on escrow storage space requirements. This will benefit all new registry operators as they create various gTLD types and sizes. Registry operators could base top-level domains on corporate brands (e.g., .ironmountain), regional geographies (e.g., .brussels), and additional generic designations (e.g., .restaurant). Iron Mountain can accommodate both existing and forthcoming domain name registries of all sizes.

“In 2001, Iron Mountain and ICANN created the first registry data escrow program to better protect the integrity of domain name registration data,” said John Boruvka, vice president of intellectual property management at Iron Mountain Digital. “Now, Iron Mountain provides Registry Data Escrow services to both new gTLD registries as well as to existing gTLD and global ccTLD registries. By doing so, Iron Mountain will continue to help safeguard the continuity of service across the Internet.”

To help the Internet community further understand the impact of new gTLDs, Iron Mountain has developed a white paper on the topic, titled What’s Next for the New gTLDs?

About ICANN
ICANN is responsible for the global coordination of the Internet's system of unique identifiers like domain names (like .org, .museum and country codes like .uk) and the addresses used in a variety of Internet protocols that help computers reach each other over the Internet. Careful management of these resources is vital to the Internet's operation, so ICANN's global stakeholders meet regularly to develop policies that ensure the Internet's ongoing security and stability. ICANN is an internationally organized, public benefit non-profit company. For more information please visit: www.icann.org.

Iron Mountain Presents Research Results on Software-as-a-Service Protection Strategies at SaaS University Conference

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:33:00 -0400

BOSTON (July 20, 2010) – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, will share the results of an in-depth survey on protection strategies for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers and subscribers. At the Softletter SaaS University conference, held this week in Washington, D.C. Iron Mountain’s Frank Bruno will present highlights from The Softletter SaaS Escrow Report – a study conducted by Softletter on behalf of Iron Mountain to investigate all aspects of software escrow as it relates to SaaS.

The Softletter SaaS Escrow Report provides current benchmarks, metrics, and usage information on SaaS escrow and fallover/failover services for both the developers and users of SaaS applications. The report covers everything from SaaS application usage, value and risk perceptions associated with SaaS application adoption to the forecasted use of SaaS applications, and the awareness and prevalence of SaaS escrow services. Conducted from March to May 2010, the study surveyed a total of 170 respondents – 112 from companies subscribing to SaaS applications (end-users), and 58 from companies that provide SaaS applications (developers).

The report’s key findings include:

59% of SaaS subscribers are using one to five SaaS applications today, and 65% plan on adding one to five SaaS applications over the next 12 to 18 months.
Companies are becoming increasingly comfortable with SaaS and Cloud computing as indicated by the fact that more than half (56%) of the respondents are using SaaS systems for mission-critical applications.
Yet, less than half of companies using SaaS for mission-critical applications are using SaaS escrow services to protect their investments and their company's data and operations. This suggests a lack of understanding about the purpose and function of SaaS escrow in general.
Conversely, 49% of providers offer escrow protection, and another 21% are considering its adoption. Better than half of all providers over $1M in revenue offer escrow protection.
Many SaaS subscribers lack awareness, or concern, about the consequences in the event of application failure.

Softletter concludes that both SaaS application providers and subscribers need to take a closer look at their strategies regarding software escrow as the adoption of SaaS applications continues to grow. Companies are rapidly moving to SaaS for their mission-critical applications, and need to plan, prepare for, and be ready to manage risk. These companies will suffer significant damage if they don't have back-up plans to protect their investments via escrow and failover services in the event of a disaster.

Details of Iron Mountain’s presentation at SaaS University include:

Softletter’s SaaS University
July 20 – 22, 2010, in Washington, D.C.

Speaker: Frank Bruno, director of sales, Iron Mountain, Intellectual Property Management
Topic: “Protecting Their SaaS: Results from the Escrow and Failover Survey of Subscribers and Providers”
Details: Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 10:55 - 11:30 a.m.

New Iron Mountain Consulting Arm Combines Records Management and eDiscovery Expertise to Help Clients Cut Information Costs and Risks

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:31:00 -0400

BOSTON (Aug. 4, 2010) – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, today announced the formation of a new consulting practice, which combines the company’s long-established practice in records and information management and its electronic discovery management team. Iron Mountain Consulting advises customers around the world on how to lower the cost of managing information and records, meet complex industry regulations, prepare for eDiscovery, manage complex litigation and avoid data or IT systems disasters. By combining its deep knowledge in hardcopy records, electronic information management, litigation readiness and legal process into one consulting practice, Iron Mountain can better advise and offer customers integrated solutions for consistently managing all of their information with less cost, risk and complexity.

Iron Mountain Consulting leverages and extends the company’s experience in storing and managing data over the past 60 years. The new Iron Mountain Consulting practice combines the company’s highly-regarded records and information management and eDiscovery consulting teams — who have separately and successfully handled nearly 1,000 customer projects. Iron Mountain Consulting helps customers design, build and execute legally-defensible, but pragmatic, records management and retention policies and best practices.

Iron Mountain Consulting provides clients expert advice in the following areas:

Records Management, including records classification schema, retention destruction policies and schedules, and compliance monitoring;
Information Management, including risk assessment, information and systems mapping, and unstructured (e.g., email) and structured data management strategies;
eDiscovery Management, including litigation readiness planning, complex matter guidance, and dispute advisory services.

“Our customers want clear, consistent and cost-conscious guidance on how to create compliant records and information programs to combat their mounting data and systems challenges,” said Ramana Venkata, president of Iron Mountain Digital. “Customers do not view their challenges as distinct paper and electronic data challenges, but rather as complex information management challenges. For that reason, we’ve created a single integrated consulting organization to help address any challenge our customers may face, regardless of the format, location or language of the underlying information.”

“We engaged Iron Mountain Consulting to help us design records management programs and processes. We approached Iron Mountain because of their recognized expertise in the market, and they quickly earned our trust and respect with their advice and the results they produced,” said Nicole Farrar, senior corporate counsel with Wilbur-Ellis Company. “Iron Mountain Consulting’s records management program development was invaluable to our company as we established and implemented consistent records management practices that optimize the balance between risk and cost across our organization.”

“More and more, companies are being faced with complex information management challenges,” said Vivian Tero, Program Manager, Compliance Infrastructure Service, IDC. “Iron Mountain’s integrated consulting team can help companies solve those issues by helping design, build and execute records management and retention policies.”

Stephen Whetstone, Esq. and Thomas Barnett, Esq. will lead Iron Mountain Consulting. Barnett, vice president of Iron Mountain Consulting, will oversee the consulting practice and manage the team. Before joining Iron Mountain, Barnett was a special counsel in the litigation department of Sullivan & Cromwell, where he created and led its electronic discovery and compliance group. Additionally, he helped develop the original Sedona Principles on eDiscovery and the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM), and served as a securities and corporate governance litigator at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

Whetstone will have ultimate responsibility for the consulting team in addition to other company strategic initiatives. He is currently the vice president of client development and strategy, and joined Iron Mountain through Stratify in early 2005, after 13 years of practice at AmLaw 50 firms, first as a litigation associate at Skadden Arps, and then as a litigation associate and partner at Testa Hurwitz.

The consulting team is comprised of 70 information technology and records management professionals, including senior attorneys and pubic company counsel, computer scientists, electrical engineers, linguists and library and information scientists, and professional project managers.

For more information about Iron Mountain Consulting, please visit www.ironmountain.com/consulting

About Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) provides information management services that help organizations lower the costs, risks and inefficiencies of managing their physical and digital data. The company’s solutions enable customers to protect and better use their information—regardless of its format, location or lifecycle stage—so they can optimize their business and ensure proper recovery, compliance and discovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain manages billions of information assets, including business records, electronic files, medical data, emails and more for organizations around the world. Visit www.ironmountain.com or follow the company on Twitter www.twitter.com/IronMountainInc for more information.

Iron Mountain Appoints New Heads of Worldwide Sales and Human Resources

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:29:00 -0400

BOSTON (August 9, 2010) – Iron Mountain Incorporated, (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, today announced the appointment of two new executives to its leadership team. Jerry Rulli joins the company as executive vice president of worldwide sales and Annie Drapeau joins as executive vice president of human resources. Rulli and Drapeau will play key roles as the company works to capture significant new growth opportunities and become the global leader in information management.

“We are pleased to welcome Jerry and Annie and add their talents to our team during this important time in our company’s history,” said Bob Brennan, president and CEO, Iron Mountain. “Our customers now want us to do more than just keep their information safe; increasingly, they need our help to better understand their information, find it faster, use it more efficiently and transform it into a competitive advantage. Jerry and Annie’s proven track records make them valuable additions to our executive team as we work to meet this market need.”

As the head of worldwide sales, Rulli is charged with developing sales strategies for a global sales team and growing revenue for the company. A seasoned sales executive with more than 25 years’ experience, Rulli came to Iron Mountain from Infor Global Solutions. Between 2007 and 2010, he held senior leadership roles in sales and general management and helped grow the software maker from $200 million to $2 billion. Prior to Infor, Rulli served as vice president of sales for Echelon Corporation from 2000-2003 and vice president of worldwide sales and support for Framework Technologies from 1998-2000. A native of St. Paul, Minnesota, Rulli graduated from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls with a bachelor’s degree in political science and sociology.

In her role as executive vice president of human resources, Drapeau oversees global HR strategy, including organizational development, recruitment and rewards. Prior to Iron Mountain, Drapeau co-founded the Center for Leading Organizations, a management-consulting firm focused on organizational effectiveness and development. Before that, she served as executive vice president and chief people officer at VistaPrint from 2005 to 2008 and held a variety of executive level positions at Digitas from 1997 through 2005, including executive vice president and chief people officer. Earlier in her career, Drapeau served in various leadership roles at both PepsiCo and JP Morgan.

Drapeau is the co-author of the books The Trusted Leader: Bringing Out the Best in Your People and Your Company and The Enemies of Trust, and has written on organizational leadership for a range of business publications. She holds a bachelor’s in chemical engineering from Bucknell University and an MBA from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth. Drapeau is a member of the Commonwealth Institute and is on the Alumni Association Board of Directors at Bucknell University.

Iron Mountain and UrbanBrain Create Program to Support New Internet gTLD Registry Applicants

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:26:00 -0400

BOSTON and TOKYO (Aug. 10, 2010) –Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, and UrbanBrain Incorporated, an Internet registry services consultancy, today announced a co-referral program to benefit applicants for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), which will expand the domain names on the Internet. Under the terms of this referral program, Iron Mountain will refer prospective gTLD Registry Operators to UrbanBrain for registry services and UrbanBrain will refer prospective Registry Operators to Iron Mountain for data escrow services.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the non-profit organization that oversees the Internet’s domain name system, plans to open its doors to new gTLD applications in the near future. Currently, there are 22 gTLDs in use on the Internet and overseen by ICANN. A top-level domain is what Internet users are accustomed to seeing on the right-most side of a domain name, for example, .com, .net and .org.

“The addition of new Internet extensions will increase competition in the domain name market, and consumers will benefit from new and innovative business models,” stated Kevin Saimon, CEO of UrbanBrain. “However, the process of applying for a new gTLD is extremely complex. UrbanBrain’s consulting services will guide new gTLD applicants through the entire process of applying for a new gTLD, as well as running a fully-functioning registry. Our program with Iron Mountain will enable new Registry Operators to ensure their domain is safeguarded with the industry’s premier registry escrow services.”

John Boruvka, vice president of intellectual property management at Iron Mountain Digital, added, “As ICANN rolls out the new gTLD application process, UrbanBrain and Iron Mountain will help new gTLD applicants navigate the strategy, implementation and protection of their new domains. We’re proud to refer customers to UrbanBrain, and are pleased that UrbanBrain recognizes Iron Mountain’s expertise and market leadership in providing registry data escrow services.”

To help the Internet community further understand the impact of new gTLDs, Iron Mountain has developed a white paper on the topic, titled What’s Next for the New gTLDs?

About UrbanBrain
UrbanBrain provides comprehensive consulting and operational training services for prospective new gTLD applicants. UrbanBrain is preparing to be the official registry operator of the new gTLD, .SITE (dotsite.org), and will also handle registry operations for the winner of the world’s first new gTLD contest, World Domain Cup (www.worlddomaincup.com).

Copeland Toyota Cuts Expenses By More Than 70 Percent using Cloud-based Data Protection Solution from Iron Mountain

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:17:00 -0400

BOSTON (Oct. 12, 2010) – Copeland Toyota, a popular Boston-area car dealership, reduced its data protection expenses by more than 70 percent when it deployed automated cloud data protection from Iron Mountain Incorporated, (NYSE: IRM), the information management company. Copeland Toyota replaced its tape backup and restore process with Iron Mountain’s cloud data protection solutions, which include Connected® Backup for PC and Mac and LiveVault® server backup, to deliver the business continuity the growing dealership demands to support its sales and service functions.

“Iron Mountain’s solid reputation for security made it our number one choice for off-premise data protection as we sought to expand the capacity of our preexisting backup systems,” said Jason Pappas, IT manager, Copeland Toyota. “Not only have Connected and LiveVault virtually eliminated our IT staff’s involvement in backups, they’ve also helped us to dramatically reduce our storage infrastructure costs.”

Copeland Toyota relies on Iron Mountain to protect all of its content—such as data from the car purchase process to service and repairs. Available as a single solution, Connected Backup for PC and Mac and LiveVault for cloud-based data protection enable automatic, highly efficient backups without requiring any action from end-users or IT staff.

After an initial full backup, the Connected solution’s Delta Block® technology ensures that only data changes and newly created files are subsequently backed up. Connected also leverages SendOnce® technology to recognize identical files located on multiple machines so they are backed up only once. These features ensure that Copeland Toyota receives smaller, faster backups and reduce storage requirements and costs. In addition, Connected provides scalability to help Copeland Toyota keep up with future business growth.

“Cloud-based data protection effectively reduces the cost of ownership associated with the entire infrastructure of disk, deduplication disk, backup servers and other components. Businesses like Copeland Toyota are discovering the sooner that cloud-based storage appears in their processes, the greater the benefits they enjoy,” said T.M. Ravi, chief marketing officer, Iron Mountain Digital. “Businesses are finding they can eliminate their onsite, disk-based backup and archiving in favor of cloud-based data protection. Businesses are learning they can skip the disk.”

Benefits of Skipping the Disk
As a provider of both tape-based backup and cloud-based data protection services, Iron Mountain can help businesses choose the right business continuity strategy for their business needs. Benefits of “skipping the disk” and backing up data to the cloud include:

Seamless and Simplified Process: By using cloud-based data protection, businesses can shift the burden of the complex backup process, technology and management to experts like Iron Mountain. With a trusted cloud service provider, backup becomes seamless, reliable and secure.
On-Demand, Pay-as-you-Go: Cloud-based data protection is often more cost-effective than in-house solutions; removing capital expenditures and allowing customers to take a pay-as-you-go approach. Companies should look for a cloud service provider that offers predictable pricing that simplifies the budget process.
Guaranteed Service with Service Level Agreement: With cloud-based data protection, businesses hold Iron Mountain accountable for service-level deliverables including recovery time objectives (RTO), recovery point objectives (RPO), and uptime—guaranteed by a written Service Level Agreement.
Improved Disaster Recovery: Storing data remotely with a trusted cloud-storage service provider automatically means another copy of your data exists offsite, helping enable businesses to meet disaster recovery requirements at a fraction of the cost. By moving data offsite, businesses improve long-term retention capability and compliance stance.

Iron Mountain’s comprehensive cloud solution provides an automated, fully managed, cloud-based data protection service for servers, applications, desktops and laptops, and offers easy-to-use administration, monitoring and recovery of data. Data moves offsite automatically to secure, mirrored Iron Mountain data centers. Advanced, patented deduplication technologies decrease the storage necessary for backup and recovery, cut the time for data transfer, and reduce the load on an organization’s networks.

For more information about Copeland Toyota, visit www.copelandtoyota.com.

About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) provides information management services that help businesses lower the costs, risks and inefficiencies of managing their physical and digital data. The company’s solutions enable customers to protect and better use their information—regardless of its format, location or lifecycle stage—so they can optimize their business and ensure proper recovery, compliance and discovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain manages billions of information assets, including business records, electronic files, medical data, emails and more for businesses around the world. Visit www.ironmountain.com or follow the company on Twitter @IronMountainInc for more information.

Media Alert: Closing the Gap Between IT and Operations for Better Information Management

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:14:00 -0400

Boston (Oct. 13, 2010) – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, and the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) will host a free webcast on Oct. 20 on how IT and operational business leaders can better collaborate to address information management issues of cost, efficiency and productivity.

Today’s organizations face rapidly changing regulatory environments, growing security concerns, and access challenges in managing their information. Companies rely on both business operations and IT staffs to improve organizational efficiency and productivity – a challenge that requires both groups to reconcile their varying priorities and shrinking budgets. Independent business and IT expert Stephen Poe and Jim Stephenson, document management solutions consultant for Iron Mountain, will give their perspective on how to overcome the business – IT divide and more effectively meet organizational goals.

WHAT:	Attendees of Bridging the IT Gap: There Is a Way receive: Recommendations on how to close the information management gap between business and IT leaders; Best practices, policies and tools for more efficient document management; Strategies for improving information access and workflow processes throughout the organization.
WHEN:	Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010, at 2 p.m. EST
TO REGISTER:	http://www.ironmountain.com/bridgingITgap
PRESS CONTACT:	Christian T. Potts, public relations manager, Iron Mountain 617-535-8721 christian.potts@ironmountain.com

Media Alert: Understanding HIPAA’s Updated Requirements

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:07:34 -0400

Boston (March 24, 2010) – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), an information management services company, will sponsor a Webcast on March 31 that will help attendees understand recent updates to the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and provide tips for achieving compliance.

Enacted in 1996, HIPAA governs how healthcare organizations must protect the security and privacy of sensitive patient information. As a result of the continued adoption of electronic health records (EHR) and growing public concern over EHR privacy and security, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) has strengthened HIPAA to include mandatory breach notification, stricter enforcement and penalties, and new requirements for third-parties like EHR vendors. Understanding these new requirements poses an additional challenge for institutions already working to manage growing information volumes in compliance with mounting regulations.

The Webcast, hosted by Healthcare IT News and Healthcare Finance News, will feature Greg Pemberton of Iron Mountain’s privacy and compliance team, and Shawna Ridley, director of health information management for UT Southwestern Medical Center.

WHAT: Titled HIPAA Compliance and Best Practices for Managing Information Protection & Storage, this Webcast will offer attendees:

A better understanding of the changes to HIPAA;
Tips for screening partners and vendors for HIPAA compliance;
Best practices for achieving compliance and improving the management of paper and electronic health records;
A case study of how UT Southwestern Medical Center ensured compliance throughout its organization.

WHEN: March 31, 2010, 2 p.m. ET

ACCESS: www.ironmountain.com/hipaacompliance

PRESS CONTACT: Christian T. Potts, public relations manager, Iron Mountain
617-535-8721
christian.potts@ironmountain.com

About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE:IRM) helps organizations around the world reduce the costs and risks associated with information protection and storage. The Company offers comprehensive records management and data protection solutions, along with the expertise and experience to address complex information challenges such as rising storage costs, litigation, regulatory compliance and disaster recovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain is a trusted partner to more than 140,000 corporate clients throughout North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific. For more information, visit the Company's Web site at www.ironmountain.com.

Media Alert: Making Information Work to Speed Business Processes

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:58:28 -0400

Boston (March 11, 2010) – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), an information management services company, will host a March 18 Webinar on streamlining business processes to improve organizational efficiency and reduce data-related costs and risks.

Information is the lifeblood of most organizations and getting the right information to the right person at the right time is a common goal; however, the ways in which organizations can deliver, manage and protect that information grow daily. The dynamic and complex nature of managing information challenges organizations to control data costs and ensure efficient business processes.

Richard Wilder, senior vice president of records management for Iron Mountain, and Jarad Carlton, principal consultant, Information and Communication Technologies Practice, with Frost & Sullivan, will offer strategies for addressing these information management issues and improving process efficiency so organizations can maximize their records management investment.

WHAT: Titled New Insights into Business Process Efficiency: Make Your Information Work for You, this Webinar will help attendees:

Navigate through different sources of information
Identify the right level of information access and leveragability
Locate inefficiencies in current processes
Improve the flow of information throughout business process

WHEN: March 18, 2010, 2 p.m. EST (11 a.m. PST)

ACCESS: www.ironmountain.com/infoefficiency

PRESS CONTACT: Christian T. Potts, public relations manager, Iron Mountain

617-535-8721

christian.potts@ironmountain.com

About Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE:IRM) helps organizations around the world reduce the costs and risks associated with information protection and storage. The Company offers comprehensive records management and data protection solutions, along with the expertise and experience to address complex information challenges such as rising storage costs, litigation, regulatory compliance and disaster recovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain is a trusted partner to more than 140,000 corporate clients throughout North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific. For more information, visit the Company's Web site at www.ironmountain.com.

Iron Mountain Appoints Hasbro Chairman to its Board

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:52:01 -0400

BOSTON (March 4, 2010) – Iron Mountain Incorporated, (NYSE: IRM), an information management services company, today announced that Alfred J. Verrecchia, chairman of the board of Hasbro Inc. (NYSE: HAS), has joined its board of directors. Verrecchia, 67, became today Iron Mountain’s 11^th director at the company’s regular March meeting.

“Al brings a broad and deep executive and financial pedigree to our board, having led a highly successful company,” said Richard Reese, executive chairman of the board of directors at Iron Mountain. “We will benefit from his significant experience at the board level and are honored to have Al join our board of directors.”

Verrecchia is chairman of the board at Hasbro, a position he has held since 2008. He has spent his entire career at Hasbro, beginning as a staff accountant and making his way to chief executive officer, a position he held from 2003-2008. Prior to his role as CEO, Verrecchia spent many years in key leadership roles including chief operating officer and chief financial officer.

Verrecchia is also an independent director at FGX International Holdings. In previous years, he sat on the CVS Caremark board for three years, where he was a member of the audit committee. Verrecchia is also highly involved in the Rhode Island community, sitting on various nonprofit boards, including serving as chairman of Lifespan, Rhode Island’s largest hospital and medical system.

He holds a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Rhode Island.

About Iron Mountain

Top Analyst Firm Recognizes Iron Mountain as a Leader in Enterprise Information Archiving

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 08:57:00 -0400

BOSTON (Nov. 3, 2010) – Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, today announced that it is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in Gartner Inc.’s Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving 2010 report for its NearPoint® on-premise content archiving solution. Published on Oct. 29, 2010, by Sheila Childs and Kenneth Chin, the Enterprise Information Archiving (EIA) report is a review of products and solutions available to enterprises for storing and accessing their email and files.

Gartner's Magic Quadrant report positions technology vendors within a particular quadrant based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute when addressing companies’ information archiving needs. Gartner's view regarding vendor placement is heavily influenced by the more than 1,500 conversations on the topic of EIA during the past 18 months with Gartner clients. In addition, the Magic Quadrant methodology includes the solicitation of references from each vendor, and for this Magic Quadrant, Gartner conducted nearly 100 surveys and/or conversations on the vendor products.

According to the Gartner report, “Enterprises are looking for products that can deliver policy-based retention management and disposition, as well as legal hold and early case assessment, in a cost-effective way.”

The Iron Mountain NearPoint solution is an enterprise-archiving platform to consistently manage the retention and disposition of email, files and SharePoint information per corporate governance policy. NearPoint provides applications for discovery, compliance, legal-hold, recovery, and end-user search as part of an information management framework. NearPoint content archiving enables customers to reduce information risk, and lower their storage and discovery costs. The NearPoint solution is part of Iron Mountain’s comprehensive portfolio of cloud and on-premise information management solutions.

“Companies are challenged by the exponential growth of information and the impact this has on processes for discovery or to comply with governance policy. Archiving is a critical step to standardize the processes for managing information,” said Scott Whitney, vice president of product marketing, Iron Mountain Digital. “Companies need smart storage too; that is, content repositories capable of classifying information and extending the information for access, compliance and litigation purposes. Only then, can they have better control. We’re pleased to be included in the leaders quadrant as we believe it affirms our strength in helping our customers manage their information, wherever it resides, in the cloud or on-premise.”

A complimentary copy of the Gartner magic quadrant report is available here: http://digital.ironmountain.com/forms/IMDGartnerMQforEnterpriseInformationArchiving2010

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2010 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) provides information management services that help organizations lower the costs, risks and inefficiencies of managing their physical and digital data. The company’s solutions enable customers to protect and better use their information—regardless of its format, location or lifecycle stage—so they can optimize their business and ensure proper recovery, compliance and discovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain manages billions of information assets, including business records, electronic files, medical data, emails and more for organizations around the world. Visit www.ironmountain.com or follow the company on Twitter @IronMountainInc for more information.

Media Alert: Is Your Organization’s Information Ready for Litigation?

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 08:54:00 -0400

Boston (Nov. 9, 2010) – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, will host a free webcast on Nov. 16 offering strategies for preparing information for the inevitability of litigation. The webcast will also overview key federal rules and regulations governing information and provide examples of companies that have successfully completed litigation discovery requests.

Driven by explosive information growth and increasing regulation, the costs and frequency of legal discovery are soaring. Organizations can take control before legal cases arise with the right combination of people, processes and technology. Join Jarad Carleton of Frost & Sullivan and Stephen Whetstone, Esq. of Iron Mountain as they share best policies and practices for litigation readiness.

WHAT:	Attendees of Getting Your House in Order: Cost-effective Litigation Readiness receive: Proven strategies for utilizing in-house resources on legal discovery and reducing legal fees; The key federal rules and regulations that drive the need to prepare; Best practices of companies employing the right software and resources to collect and organize data.
WHEN:	Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010, at 1 p.m. EST
TO REGISTER:	http://www.ironmountain.com/LitigationReadiness/
PRESS CONTACT:	Christian T. Potts, public relations manager, Iron Mountain 617-535-8721 christian.potts@ironmountain.com

Iron Mountain and Afilias Create Program for New gTLD Registry Applicants

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 08:51:00 -0400

BOSTON and DUBLIN (Dec. 6, 2010) – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, and Afilias Limited , a global provider of Internet domain name registry and Domain Name System (DNS) services, today announced a co-referral program to benefit applicants of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). Under the terms of this co-referral program, Iron Mountain will refer prospective gTLD Registry Operators to Afilias for Domain Name Registry Services, and Afilias will refer prospective Registry Operators to Iron Mountain for data escrow services.

As the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) opens up the domain name space with the introduction of the new gTLDs, Afilias is offering a full suite of services to ensure that new top-level domain applications and operations are successful. ICANN’s current schedule states that they will open the application window for new gTLDs late in the second quarter of 2011. Integral to the creation of new gTLDs is the protection of authoritative registry data through escrow.

As the new gTLDs are created, their registries will be required to comply with data escrow requirements similar to those that ICANN maintains for existing gTLDs. Iron Mountain currently provides escrow services for the majority of the currently active gTLDs, and will offer its Registry Data Escrow services for the new gTLDs as well. Escrow services are a vital and mandatory component of the new gTLD application process and help provide registry continuity for these gTLDs.

Afilias Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Roland LaPlante said, “Afilias is known for the reliability, security and scalability of our registry systems as well as new gTLD expertise that comes from supporting the launches of more new gTLDs than any other registry provider. We offer a complete technical solution for new gTLD applicants including ICANN-proven registry and DNS services. We’ve worked with Iron Mountain for years to provide escrow that meets ICANN’s requirements, and we are pleased to extend this partnership into the new TLD area.”

Escrow protection is essential for new gTLDs to ensure the continuity of Domain Name System operations in the event of a physical, technical or business failure of a registry. Iron Mountain was the first company to protect domain name registry data via escrow agreements in 2001, beginning with its support of Afilias’ .INFO registry. Today, Iron Mountain’s global leadership in information management translates into the most comprehensive and trusted Domain Name Registry Data Escrow Services available.

John Boruvka, vice president of intellectual property management at Iron Mountain, added, “Afilias has over a decade’s worth of experience in the domain name industry and provides a wide range of capabilities essential to the smooth and efficient operation of any type of domain registry. We look forward to working with Afilias, and are pleased that they recognize Iron Mountain’s expertise and market leadership in providing registry data escrow services.”

To help the Internet community further understand the impact of new gTLDs, Iron Mountain has developed a white paper on the topic, titled New gTLDs Approach the Finish Line.

About Afilias
Afilias is a global provider of Internet infrastructure services that connect people to their data. Afilias’ reliable, secure, scalable, and globally available technology supports a wide range of applications including Internet domain registry services, Managed DNS, and services in the RFID and supply chain market with its Afilias Discovery Services. For more information on Afilias please visit www.afilias.info or follow Afilias on Twitter at www.twitter.com/Afilias.

Iron Mountain Helps Registries Prepare for Launch of New gTLDs with Registry Data Escrow Services

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 08:45:00 -0400

BOSTON(Dec. 6, 2010) – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, will sponsor and exhibit at this week’s 39^th ICANN International Meeting held in Cartagena, Colombia, to support ICANN as it prepares for the introduction of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). New gTLDs will open the global Internet to a new realm of choices, beyond the 22 gTLDs currently in existence (such as .com, .net,and.org). Iron Mountain is collaborating with Registry Operators and Registry Service Providers to ensure that they have planned for the Registry Data Escrow functions required for all new gTLDs.

As new gTLDs are allocated, their registries will be required to comply with data escrow requirements similar to those that ICANN maintains for existing gTLDs. This is to ensure the continuation of Domain Name System operations in the event of a physical or business failure of a registry. Iron Mountain provides escrow services for the majority of today’s gTLDs and will offer its Registry Data Escrow services for the new gTLDs as well.

ICANN has now posted the Proposed Final New gTLD Applicant Guidebook, bringing the Internet significantly closer to the introduction of New Generic Top-Level Domains. The introduction of new gTLDs will open the global Internet to a new realm of choices, offering unprecedented opportunities for businesses, communities, governments, and Internet users to create digital identities in their own language and better manage their own online branding. To help the Internet community further understand the impact of new gTLDs, Iron Mountain has released a white paper on the topic, titled New gTLDs Approach the Finish Line.

Iron Mountain has also signed co-referral agreements with five leading Registry Service Providers: Central Registry Solutions (CRS), UrbanBrain Incorporated, AusRegistry International, Afilias Limited, and Qinetics Solutions Berhad (RegistryASP). Under the terms of these agreements, Iron Mountain will refer prospective gTLD Registry Operators to these service providers for registry services, and they in turn will refer prospective Registry Operators to Iron Mountain for data escrow services.

The pricing structure of Iron Mountain’s tiered offering for Registry Data Escrow services is based on the number of domain names registered under a given gTLD, rather than on escrow storage space requirements, which will benefit all new registry operators as they create various gTLD types and sizes. Iron Mountain can accommodate both existing and forthcoming domain name registries of all sizes.

“The importance of registry data escrow can’t be overemphasized, and ICANN vigorously enforces Registry Operator compliance with this requirement,” said John Boruvka, vice president of intellectual property management at Iron Mountain. “Iron Mountain has been working with ICANN for nearly a decade and created the first registry data escrow program to better protect the integrity of domain name registration data. With the introduction of the new gTLDs, Iron Mountain will continue to provide escrow services to help safeguard the continuity of service across the Internet.”

Iron Mountain Recognized as a Strong Performer in Message Archiving Software by Independent Research Firm

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:38:54 -0400

BOSTON (March 15, 2011) – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, announced that it has been named as a strong performer in the March 2011 “The Forrester Wave ™: Message Archiving Software, Q1 2011” report for its NearPoint on-premise content archiving solution. Iron Mountain is among a select group of nine companies that Forrester Research, Inc. evaluated in the report.

Forrester’s Wave report assessed these top message archiving vendors on a 90-criteria evaluation of their current offerings, strategy and market presence. The report is based on an analysis of data from vendor surveys, product demos and customer reference calls. Forrester set default weightings to reflect their analysis of the needs of large message archiving users — and/or other scenarios as outlined in the Forrester Wave document — and then scored the vendors based on a clearly defined scale. The final scores generate the graphical depiction of the market based on current offering, strategy and market presence. NearPoint received its top scores for strategy – particularly its reseller partnerships – and its market presence.

The Forrester report states that Iron Mountain’s “vision is to provide systems and services that help organizations lower the risk and cost of managing information. The vendor achieves this through a platform that delivers efficient capture technologies, text analytics, intelligent workload applications and a location-agnostic repository of record.”

“The amount of information that companies create is growing exponentially. Archiving is key to effectively managing this information as it allows companies to lower their storage costs and to better know what they have so they can avoid compliance and discovery risks,” said Scott Whitney, vice president and general manager of archive services, Iron Mountain. “We’re proud to be recognized by Forrester as a strong performer in ‘The Forrester Wave: Message Archiving Software, Q1 2011’ report.”

The Iron Mountain NearPoint solution is an enterprise-archiving platform that consistently manages the retention and disposition of email, files and SharePoint® information per corporate governance policy. NearPoint provides applications for discovery, compliance, legal-hold, recovery and end-user search as part of an information management framework. The content archiving solution enables customers to reduce information risk and lower their storage and discovery costs. NearPoint is part of Iron Mountain’s comprehensive portfolio of cloud and on-premise information management solutions. For more information about Iron Mountain’s range of integrated information management solutions, please visit www.ironmountain.com.

Media Alert: Reed Elsevier Gains Control of Global Contracts to Achieve Business Benefits and Bottom Line Improvements

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:24:43 -0400

Boston (Feb. 24, 2010) – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), an information management services company, will host a March 3 Webcast on best practices for implementing a contract management solution for faster payment processing times and improved client service. The Webcast will feature representatives from Reed Elsevier, an international publishing company, and research firm Frost & Sullivan, discussing the challenges of standardizing contract management and bringing better control to the overall process while reducing risk.

Alicia Vernon, manager of global royalties for Reed Elsevier, will detail how her organization partnered with Iron Mountain to consolidate and index thousands of documents from across the organization into a central system. In addition, Jarad Carleton, principal consultant with Frost & Sullivan, will provide listeners strategies for addressing contract management challenges.

WHAT: Titled Reed Elsevier Gains Control of Global Contracts to Achieve Business Benefits and Bottom Line Improvements, this Webcast will highlight:

How Iron Mountain helped Reed Elsevier to develop and implement a contract management solution for speeding payment processing times and improving client service;
The business case for outsourcing all or parts of contract management;
Best practices for managing contracts, regardless of format (paper or digital) or location (centralized or decentralized).

WHEN: March 3, 2010, 2 p.m. EST

ACCESS: www.ironmountain.com/contracts

PRESS CONTACT: Christian T. Potts, public relations manager, Iron Mountain 617-535-8721 christian.potts@ironmountain.com

Iron Mountain Acquires Mimosa Systems

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:59:11 -0400

BOSTON (Feb. 22, 2010) – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), an information management services company, today announced it has acquired Santa Clara, Calif.-based Mimosa Systems, Inc., a leader in enterprise-class content archiving solutions, for approximately $112 million in cash, subject to closing adjustments. The deal provides Iron Mountain with an integrated archive for email, SharePoint data and files, and gives the company an on-premises archiving option to complement its existing cloud-based archives.

The ability to archive and manage data both onsite, inside the customer’s firewall, and remotely in the cloud makes Iron Mountain a one-stop shop for data capture, archiving and management. It also provides the company’s customers with greater flexibility and choice for managing their information.

Additionally, the company can now capture and manage a broader range of enterprise information from so-called “edge-of-the-network” devices like desktop PCs and laptops as well as from company repositories like email stores, SharePoint servers and file systems. Many larger businesses still prefer to keep this data on their premises today. Finally, the acquisition allows Iron Mountain to extract intelligence from the information it manages both on-premises and in the cloud, advancing the company’s larger strategy to help enterprises lower the costs and risks associated with storing and managing information.

“We’re really excited about adding Mimosa Systems,” said Ramana Venkata, president of Iron Mountain Digital, the technology arm of Iron Mountain. “We acquired Mimosa because we believe it offers the best archiving technology on the market, and the company shares our philosophy to help customers reduce the cost and risk of storing and managing information. By combining Mimosa’s on-premises archive with our cloud-based technologies, Iron Mountain can now store, recover and discover digital content wherever it resides. This is a great example of the type of technology acquisition that fits well within our long-term growth strategy.”

Mimosa NearPoint™ is an enterprise archiving platform with applications for retention and disposition, eDiscovery, compliance supervision, classification, recovery, and end-user search, enabling customers to reduce risk, and lower their eDiscovery and storage costs. Mimosa has more than 1,000 enterprise customers and is recognized by industry analysts as a fast-growing, visionary archiving company.

“Enterprises today are buried in email and other forms of user-generated content, making information storage and management a complex, expensive and risky exercise,” said Arun Taneja, founder and consulting analyst of the Taneja Group. “This deal strengthens Iron Mountain’s position in the market as a comprehensive provider of information management solutions. Its customers now have greater flexibility to store and manage their information onsite or in the cloud, where it makes sense for their budget and business.”

NearPoint joins a broad portfolio of content archiving, data protection and recovery, and eDiscovery solutions from Iron Mountain Digital. Customers wanting to archive email can now choose either NearPoint for onsite archiving or Iron Mountain’s Total Email Management Suite, powered by Mimecast® technology, for archiving email in the cloud. Additionally, customers can use Iron Mountain’s Digital Record Center® for Compliant Messaging for email that must meet SEC regulations and supervision.

The addition of the NearPoint content archive also offers customers an enhanced eDiscovery solution set for quickly finding content and applying legal holds across email, file and SharePoint data. For larger litigation matters, organizations can easily transfer their onsite data to Iron Mountain’s cloud solution, Stratify Legal Discovery® Service. For smaller matters or in instances where companies want to begin the eDiscovery process on their own, they can do so onsite with Iron Mountain’s early-case assessment tool for eDiscovery, eVantage™.

The Mimosa team will be retained and become an integral part of Iron Mountain Digital. The president and CEO of Mimosa Systems, T. M. Ravi, will assume the role of chief marketing officer for Iron Mountain Digital, responsible for all marketing functions and helping to drive strategy planning and execution for Iron Mountain Digital.

“It’s a win-win situation for our customers and partners who can now leverage Iron Mountain’s global reach and comprehensive information management services,” said T.M. Ravi. “The Mimosa team will play a key role in the development and execution of the company’s cloud and on-premises information management strategy.”

About Mimosa
Mimosa Systems, Inc. delivers next-generation email, file and SharePoint archiving solutions for information immediacy, discovery, and continuity. Mimosa NearPoint is the industry’s most comprehensive unstructured information management software solution for email, files, collaboration systems and instant messages, enabling archiving, eDiscovery, storage management, and recovery in a unified solution. Mimosa is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, recognized for its competencies in networking infrastructure solutions, ISV/software solutions, and advanced infrastructure solutions.

About Iron Mountain Digital

Iron Mountain Digital is the world's leading provider of information management services for data protection and recovery, archiving, eDiscovery and intellectual property management. The technology arm of Iron Mountain Incorporated offers a comprehensive suite of solutions to thousands of companies around the world, directly and through a worldwide network of channel partners. Iron Mountain Digital is based in Southborough, Mass.

About Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain Delivers Cloud-Based, Vendor Neutral Storage for Patient Data

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:53:43 -0400

BOSTON (Feb. 21, 2011) – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, today announced it has added vendor neutral functionality to its enterprise-level archive – the Digital Record Center® for Medical Images – for storing, sharing and protecting diagnostic images and other patient data. This cloud-based archive gives healthcare organizations a central repository for consolidating and liberating medical imaging and patient data from departmental-level (radiology, cardiology, other modalities) storage silos. Additionally, hospitals can improve their disaster recovery and business continuity readiness by leveraging the cloud-based offering for offsite, secure storage. The net is lower costs, enhanced image sharing ability, better reliability and security, and ultimately improved patient care.

In today’s patient-care settings, providers view and store medical-image data through Picture Archiving Communication Systems (PACS). These systems are bulging at the seams as advances in medical imaging yield higher-resolution, larger-file pictures and doctors rely more on imaging to treat aging Baby Boomers and other patients. Hospitals typically rely on or acquire multiple PACS from various vendors to manage different types of images, and these PACS do not easily integrate with each other, trapping patient data within silos. This limits physicians’ ability to share data about the same patient and complicates delivering on the promise of a holistic electronic medical record. Solving this problem requires hospital IT leaders to set up data sharing between PACS while accommodating non PACS-based images as well – a costly and daunting process. Moreover, as vendors replace their PACS every few years, hospitals must undergo the complex and expensive process to migrate their images from one system to the next.

Iron Mountain is partnering with DeJarnette Research Systems, a pioneer in PACS data migrations and interoperability, to deliver a cloud-based vendor neutral archive service that solves these issues. This combination of DeJarnette’s software with Iron Mountain’s enterprise archive and its highly secure data center to provide a truly neutral solution for storing, accessing and sharing medical images and patient data. As a cloud-based service, hospitals now have the option to deploy this service on a ”pay-per-use” basis, avoiding the large capital expense and the management support burden typically associated with large-scale medical image archiving solutions. Providers reduce the cost and complexity of managing medical images currently trapped in silos across their organizations and secure their data in an offsite storage archive to help ensure it is available in the event an individual PACS fails. Iron Mountain’s medical image archive is compatible with other third party Vendor Neutral Archive solutions, providing hospitals with flexibility in choosing a VNA and a cloud storage solution.

“Hospitals are advocating for VNAs for three reasons. They can’t share images trapped in their various PACS systems. They can’t afford the costly data migrations from one PACS to the next. And they’re tired of being handcuffed to their PACS vendors without practical options for storing, sharing and protecting patient data,” said Ken Rubin, senior vice president of healthcare services for Iron Mountain. “Iron Mountain is ideally suited to deliver vendor neutral archiving because our customers understand we’re truly vendor neutral and they trust the security and reliability of our cloud storage platform. And, when you combine our VNA capabilities with our archiving and back-up cloud services, we can provide customers with an enterprise-wide archiving and back-up solution for not only medical images but for other primary applications in a healthcare organization.”

For more information on the Iron Mountain vendor neutral archive and Iron Mountain Healthcare Services, visit Iron Mountain at the 2011 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition in booth 2712 or go to www.ironmountain.com/vna.

CommVault Joins Iron Mountain’s Developer Program

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:53:16 -0400

BOSTON (Feb. 1, 2010) – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), an information management services company, today announced that CommVault has joined the Iron Mountain Developer Program to integrate its Simpana® software with Iron Mountain’s Archive Services Platform. Once the integration is completed, CommVault customers will have access to Iron Mountain’s enterprise-class cloud storage. The Developer Program allows application providers like CommVault to integrate their solutions with Iron Mountain’s cloud archiving services so they can in turn provide their customers with not only secure storage but with added services for accessing and leveraging that data.

“As our customers look to take advantage of the cloud as another tier of storage, Iron Mountain’s trusted and secure Archive Services Platform helps them meet their long-term data management, archiving and retention needs,” said David West, vice president of marketing and business development at CommVault. “The combination of Iron Mountain’s proven reliability and the CommVault® Simpana software cloud storage connector will give joint customers a powerful option to move on-premises backup and archive data securely, reliably and transparently into, and out of, the Iron Mountain Archive Services Platform.”

CommVault is the latest application provider to join the Developer Program since Iron Mountain introduced its Archive Services Platform to developers and independent software vendors in Oct. 2009. Customers of CommVault’s cloud-optimized Simpana software will have access to secure, offsite data storage, eliminating the need for custom scripting or disparate cloud gateway devices.

“Iron Mountain’s Archive Services Platform allows application providers to extend our enterprise-class security and reliability to their software developer end-users, giving them the assurance that their data is both protected and easily accessed via our related information management services,” said Todd Koopersmith, vice president of strategic alliances for Iron Mountain. “We are pleased that CommVault has chosen to join our Developer Program, and we view this as further validation that security matters when it comes to protecting corporate data in the cloud.”

"Security and reliability continue to be key issues for customers and we believe partnerships such as the one formed between CommVault and Iron Mountain will alleviate the concerns of enterprises," said Henry Baltazar, Analyst for The 451 Group. "Iron Mountain's Developer Program gives application providers the security and privacy they require to confidently offer cloud storage to enterprises."

The Iron Mountain Developer Program offers application developers seamless integration with the Company’s Archive Services Platform through an Application Programming Interface (API) for secure, off-site long-term data storage for data-intensive applications, as well as information management functionality such as advanced indexing, search and retrieval capabilities and retention and destruction.

About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) helps organizations around the world reduce the costs and risks associated with information protection and storage. The Company offers comprehensive records management and data protection solutions, along with the expertise and experience to address complex information challenges such as rising storage costs, litigation, regulatory compliance and disaster recovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain is a trusted partner to more than 140,000 corporate clients throughout North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific. For more information, visit the Company’s Web site at www.ironmountain.com.

Iron Mountain Drives Efficiencies and Reduces eDiscovery Costs with Enhanced Enterprise Discovery Suite Products

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:48:24 -0400

BOSTON (Jan. 31, 2011) – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) today unveiled major enhancements to two key components of its Enterprise Discovery Suite with the delivery of Iron Mountain Legal Discovery 10.0 and Iron Mountain eVantage™ 2.0. These upgrades to the information management company’s software for cloud-based and on-premises eDiscovery solutions provide enterprises a unified legal repository, advanced analytics for document review and higher performance early case assessment. Combined, these updates make the high costs of discovery more predictable for companies and allow in-house and outside counsel to simplify their workflow and find critical legal information faster.

The latest version of Iron Mountain Legal Discovery, a high performance hosted review solution, now unifies documents and legal work product from multiple investigations and lawsuits into a single repository. This enables corporate counsel to speed review and analysis by leveraging tags, codings, annotations and other work product from multiple matters, saving time and money once spent repeatedly processing and reviewing documents for individual matters. Attorneys can easily populate new matters with documents and work product from previous matters, quickly assigning review teams and security policies.

“A single, scalable, configurable legal repository that allows companies and law firms to reuse attorney work product across multiple matters can significantly improve eDiscovery efficiencies and lower costs,” stated Brian Babineau, vice president, Research and Analyst Services, Enterprise Strategy Group. “The combination of the Iron Mountain unified legal repository and advanced review technologies provides a strong foundation for organizations looking to cost effectively manage complex, global matters.”

Iron Mountain Legal Discovery 10.0 delivers innovative analytics and review capabilities that enable attorneys to intelligently manage complex matters and complicated data sets. New text analytic capabilities automatically locate documents and message threads containing Social Security numbers, credit card numbers and other patterned expressions that may be subject to data privacy mandates. In addition, new classification technology provides high-throughput processing of large volumes of documents into existing concept folders for large, complex, fast-moving matters. The new release also speeds review with real-time, metadata-based faceted search technology to slice and dice complex document sets. Advanced persistent keyword highlighting also allows attorneys to automatically track multiple sets of keywords across large data sets to find relevant documents faster.

Enhancements to Iron Mountain eVantage, the company’s on-premises early case assessment solution, deliver processing speeds up to one terabyte of data a day for rapid data culling and analysis. eVantage empowers legal teams to eliminate non-responsive data from costly legal review, and to analyze case facts, risks and costs with advanced analytics to make strategic case decisions and cost assessments. With the new release, customers can deploy eVantage on their own IT infrastructure as a “virtual machine,” or purchase both the software and hardware from Iron Mountain. Users also now have access to extensive Lotus Notes processing, review and export capabilities. Work done in eVantage seamlessly transitions to Iron Mountain Legal Discovery 10.0 for large, complex matters.

“In the globalizing economy, our customers must grapple with greater volumes of data across a wider range of domestic and foreign litigations, government investigations and internal compliance matters,” said Stephen Whetstone, Esq., vice president and general manager of Iron Mountain Legal Discovery, and a former litigation partner at an AmLaw 50 firm. “We designed and built our newest electronic discovery offerings to address our customers’ data challenges, so they can quickly find, tag and produce what’s responsive, withhold what’s privileged and cast aside what’s irrelevant, and track it all – once – thereby ensuring consistency across all matters and avoiding having to pay lawyers to repeat the entire expensive process over and again.”

Iron Mountain Legal Discovery and Iron Mountain eVantage are available as standalone solutions or as components of the Iron Mountain Enterprise Discovery Suite, recently introduced in October, 2010. The Enterprise Discovery Suite is Iron Mountain’s integrated offering of information governance and discovery capabilities including Iron Mountain NearPoint®, Classify & Collect, eVantage, Iron Mountain Legal Discovery and Iron Mountain consulting. To learn more about the Iron Mountain Enterprise Discovery Suite and additional information management solutions from Iron Mountain, visit http://www.ironmountain.com/discovery/

Iron Mountain will be exhibiting Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 2011, in booth 2109 at the LegalTech East conference in New York. Additionally, discovery experts from Iron Mountain will participate in a panel discussion on cloud-based legal repositories on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011.

About Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) provides information management services that help organizations lower the costs, risks and inefficiencies of managing their physical and digital data. The company’s solutions enable customers to protect and better use their information—regardless of its format, location or lifecycle stage—so they can optimize their business and ensure proper recovery, compliance and discovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain manages billions of information assets, including business records, electronic files, medical data, emails and more for organizations around the world. Visit www.ironmountain.com or follow the company on Twitter @IronMountain for more information.