After Ten Years of Service, Grant Thornton Continues to Rely on the Flexibility and Scalability of the Connected® Backup for PC Solution
Protecting against internal data loss and identity theft for company's expanding mobile workforce
BOSTON(Nov. 10, 2008) – Since
1999, Grant Thornton U.S. has depended on Iron Mountain Digital, the
technology arm of Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), to back up
and protect the critical business data stored on its laptops and PCs.
As the Chicago-based accounting firm has grown and its workforce has
doubled, so too has the need to protect company information residing on
mobile workstations. Today all company laptops and PCs are protected
with Iron Mountain Digital’s Connected® Backup for PC solution, the leading Storage-as-as-Service offering for PC backup and recovery.
With an expanding workforce, where 90% of the 6,000 employees travel
and work remotely – and its business information so distributed -- it
has become a critical requirement for each and every one of Grant
Thornton’s growing fleet of notebooks and desktops to be fully
protected in the event a consultant’s PC is lost, stolen or damaged
beyond repair. Iron Mountain Digital continues to meet these demands
and provide Grant Thornton with complete, online data protection and
recovery, while also reducing the lengthy IT times and high costs once
associated with the Company’s manual backups.
“In 1998, we conducted an extensive review of the online backup
solutions available and found no other solution compared to the
Connected Backup for PC solution and its ability to automatically heal
any PC problem and protect data remotely,” said David Johnson, director
of information technology, Strategic Services for Grant Thornton. “It
was only natural for us to select Iron Mountain Digital to help us
convert what was once a fragmented and complex environment to a highly
standardized, efficient and secure network. After nearly ten years,
Iron Mountain Digital’s solution continues to be the best solution
available today; providing us with world-class data protection and
recovery services that help us reduce risk and internal costs and
increasing productivity.”
Within the first year, support costs were significantly reduced and
Grant Thornton LLP was able to recover data from more than 300
notebooks which had been lost, stolen or damaged. The company also had
hundreds of instances where users had system problems, application
failures or overwritten their data The self-healing feature and
ability of users to restore their own data positively impacts IT
support by reducing workload and enabling the company to maintain lean
IT staffing levels. With the Connected Backup for PC solution, Grant
Thornton has been able to maintain the same number of technicians who
support the Connected solution, even ten years later.
“At Iron Mountain Digital, our Storage-as-a-Service model reduces
the costs and risks associated with digital information management,
while lessening the complexity of storing data for highly-regulated
businesses of all sizes,” said John Clancy, president of Iron Mountain
Digital. “We’re pleased to recognize that the flexibility and
scalability of our Connected solution have continued to meet Grant
Thornton’s needs over the course of our decade-long partnership. We
look forward to working with Grant Thornton for many more years to
come.”
As the leader in Storage-as-a-Service, Iron Mountain Digital’s
Connected solution provides customers with unmatched storage savings
and reduces backup time. The Company’s patented data reduction and
de-duplication technologies can reduce storage capacity requirements by
more than 80 percent of data volume.
About Grant Thornton LLP
The people in the independent firms of Grant Thornton International
Ltd provide personalized attention and the highest quality service to
public and private clients in more than 100 countries. Grant Thornton
LLP is the U.S. member firm of Grant Thornton International Ltd, one of
the six global audit, tax and advisory organizations. Grant Thornton
International Ltd and its member firms are not a worldwide partnership,
as each member firm is a separate and distinct legal entity.
About Iron Mountain Digital
Iron Mountain Digital is the world’s leading provider of software-
and storage-as-a service solutions for backup and archiving. The
technology arm of Iron Mountain Incorporated offers a comprehensive
suite of data protection, archiving and intellectual property
management solutions 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.
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 120,000 corporate
clients throughout North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia
Pacific. For more information, visit the Company’s Web site at www.ironmountain.com.