Iron Mountain Extends eRecords Management Portfolio with New Active Archiving Service for Email
New service addresses complexities of email management, completes Iron Mountain's Total Email Management Suite
BOSTON, MA - March 12, 2007 - Iron Mountain Incorporated
(NYSE:IRM), the global leader in information protection and storage
services, today introduced its Active Archiving Service for Email, a
comprehensive solution for managing email storage, retention and legal
discovery. The new archiving service completes Iron Mountain's Total
Email Management Suite - providing email storage management, discovery,
continuity, and disaster recovery and security services in a single,
integrated, cost-effective solution.
Email is a vital business application, yet its benefits are offset
by numerous costs and risks. All companies, regardless of size or
industry, must contend with increasing volumes of email that strain the
capacity and reliability of their email servers; new eDiscovery
regulations that require legally defensible retention policies and
quick access to emails in the event of litigation; and the impact to
productivity when employees and IT staff spend time managing email
instead of focusing on core business activities.
According to the Enterprise Strategy Group, 3 out of 4 electronic
discovery events involve e-mail. "Given the growing costs of litigation
and increasing regulatory pressures to effectively manage e-mail as a
record of the business, there is a great need in the market for an
email management solution that enables an efficient and legally
defensible eDiscovery policy," said Brian Babineau, senior analyst for
The Enterprise Strategy Group. "Now, with the addition of an active
archiving solution and other message management capabilities including
security and data protection, Iron Mountain is well-positioned to
provide a full suite of services that address the common, yet growing
email-related issues that companies face, including compliance,
security, business continuity, and storage resource utilization."
"With the new amendments to Rule 26 and other Federal Rules of Civil
Procedure, it is critical for all companies to have a reliable and
cost-effective archiving solution for email," said John Clancy,
president of Iron Mountain's Digital business unit. "With Iron
Mountain's integrated, managed services, we can help companies mitigate
these new risks and exposures, plus manage the traditional burdens of
email by eliminating downtime and reducing the costs of storage and
management."
The new Active Archiving Service for Email, delivered via a
partnership with MessageOne, is available on its own or as part of Iron
Mountain's Total Email Management suite, which also includes:
- Continuity Service for Email, a managed service that can be rapidly
activated following a network interruption, facilities outage or other
event that disables an organization's primary email system; and
- Security Service for Email, a managed service that automatically
eliminates spam, viruses, and unwanted content from the email
environment.
Iron Mountain's Active Archiving Service for Email is a
comprehensive managed service for email storage management, archiving
and discovery that allows businesses to cost-effectively reduce their
email storage burdens, apply granular email retention policies,
securely archive email, and enable efficient eDiscovery of messages
while providing end-users with easy access.
Additional features of the Active Archiving Service for Email include:
- Storage Management - reduces the size of email data stores by as
much as 80 percent while providing end users with full searchable
access to their email.
- Fully managed service - designed for high availability, security
and ease of scaling, that can be deployed in a few hours and easily
administered from a single Web console.
- Retention Management - enables flexible management and auditing of email retention policies and support for litigation holds.
- eDiscovery - makes it easy for legal counsel and other authorized
users to search selected mailboxes or across an entire population and
export results to legal review tools.
- Outlook integration - allows end users to work in their familiar
email environment. Provides full, searchable access to email with the
ability to restore individual messages.
The Active Arching Service for Email, along with the Total Email
Management Suite, is immediately available in the U.S, U.K., Germany
and France, with plans to introduce to other countries over the coming
months. For the U.S., the Total Email Management Suite pricing starts
at $6 per user per month.
The Active Archiving Service for Email and Total Email Management
Suite complements Iron Mountain's existing eRecords Management and
digital data protection solutions. For additional information, please
visit www.ironmountain.com/totalemail
About Iron Mountain Digital
Iron Mountain Digital is the world's leading provider of data
backup/recovery and archiving software as a service (SaaS). The
technology arm of Iron Mountain Incorporated offers a comprehensive
suite of data protection and e-records management software and services
to thousands of companies around the world, directly and through a
world-wide network of channel partners. Iron Mountain Digital is based
in Southborough, Mass. with European headquarters in Frankfurt,
Germany. For more information, visit www.ironmountain.com/digital.
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 90,000 corporate
clients throughout North America, Europe, Latin American and Asia
Pacific. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.ironmountain.com.