Iron Mountain Enhances Portfolio with Hosted Email Management and Archiving Solution
Company continues to deliver on the promise of secure, enterprise-class cloud storage with new offering
BOSTON, MA - April 15, 2009 - Iron Mountain Incorporated
(NYSE: IRM), the global leader in information protection and storage
services, today announced the expansion of its digital archiving
platform for email management. The new archiving solution, Total Email
Management Suite, powered by Mimecast® technology, provides businesses
with a cost-effective, total end-to-end control of email - including
archiving, continuity, security and data leak prevention - hosted in
Iron Mountain's secure data centers. In addition, Iron Mountain
customers will now have the ability to seamlessly transfer their
archived data, whether stored in the Company's SEC Compliant email
archive solution or its email management solution, to Stratify's (an
Iron Mountain subsidiary) Legal Discovery Services, should they require
eDiscovery support.
“As organizations today continue to face significant risks and costs
when it comes to email, the ability to securely manage and protect
digital information has become more critical than ever before,” said
John Clancy, president of Iron Mountain Digital, the company's
technology business unit. “Just as customers have been turning to Iron
Mountain for the storage and protection of their physical records, Iron
Mountain Digital's Storage-as-a-Service model offers secure,
cost-effective storage and access to digital information, including
email. The Total Email Management Suite is a critical component of our
digital archiving strategy - providing the rich functionality needed to
protect and manage emails, enterprise-class security and necessary
functionality in case of litigation, not to mention the peace of mind
of a secure Iron Mountain hosted solution.”
Until now, Iron Mountain offered businesses with SEC-compliant email
archiving, hosted by Iron Mountain, or Total Email Management Suite,
hosted outside of Iron Mountain's data centers. With the new email
management solution, businesses benefit from storage within Iron
Mountain's secure data centers, representing a tighter chain of custody
and protection of business data.
The Total Email Management Suite, powered by Mimecast® technology,
helps companies further manage their digital information and securely
retain, recover, discover and delete email at the end of its lifecycle,
while also providing continuity and hosted in Iron Mountain's data
centers.
“There are two reasons why this partnership will resonate with
customers, said Brian Babineau, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy
Group. “First, Iron Mountain's entire business is focused on securely
storing and protecting business data and these services are now coupled
with Mimecast's feature-rich archival and security technology to
deliver a comprehensive message management offering. Second, with 80%
of electronic discovery events involving e-mail, organizations need an
easy way to move data between their message archive and an extensible
electronic evidence platform. ESG believes that organizations should
not be deciding whether or not to implement an e-mail archive; rather
they should be determining how and this partnership is a great
alternative for those who do not wish to implement an on-premise
solution or are dealing with ongoing electronic discovery challenges.”
Key benefits and functionalities of Iron Mountain's Total Email Management Suite include:
- Email archiving service - Automatic and
transparent archiving of up to 10 years-worth of email in a secure
offsite location. Users can search archives from their desktops,
getting results in less than a second.
- Email continuity service - Complete access to email even during outages and disasters.
- Email spam protection and email antivirus protection - A spam filtering solution stops 99 percent of spam and has a perfect track record for stopping viruses.
- Data Leak Prevention - Allows administrators to
set policies to detect and prevent key confidential or restricted
information within emails and attachments from leaking to unauthorized
persons.
- Retention Management/Litigation Hold - Emails can
be retained based upon content policy or user preferences. Retention
policies are suspended to prevent destruction if a legal hold is
declared. Full forensic audit trails are maintained on every search and
every access to retained emails.
- eDiscovery - Provides eDiscovery and review tools
which provide search and analysis of the data. Back file ingestions are
also possible from multiple sources including proprietary onsite
archives to supplement the go-forward archive.
Iron Mountain Digital's Storage-as-a-Service and Digital Archiving Model
As a critical part of Iron Mountain's digital archiving business and
Storage-as-a-Service portfolio, the Total Email Management Suite
provides enterprise-grade, secure, low-cost and long-term storage
services to help customers reduce the risk and cost of managing emails.
Coupled with the recent launch of Iron Mountain's enterprise-class,
cloud-based storage archiving service, Virtual File Store™, Iron
Mountain continues to aggressively expand its Storage-as-a-Service
offering with value-added services including discovery, recovery,
classification and retention, and destruction, to enable organizations
to better manage and utilize their stored information
“Iron Mountain Digital customers can now benefit from the
combination of a robust email archiving and management solution
designed as a service; and the secure, technology services environment
and expertise from the trusted Storage-as-a-Service capability of Iron
Mountain,” said Mary Kay Roberto, senior vice president and general
manager for Mimecast North America, whose technology will help power
the solution. Mimecast was included in Gartner report, “Cool Vendors in
Email Archiving 2009”, published March 3, 2009. *
The Total Email Management Suite will be available through Iron
Mountain and its channel partners in the United States in May 2009 and
Europe in Q3 2009. For additional information please visit www.ironmountain.com/digital/email/totalemail.asp or call (800) 899-IRON.
About Mimecast
Mimecast delivers SaaS-based enterprise email management for archiving,
discovery, continuity, security and policy. By unifying disparate and
fragmented email environments into one holistic solution that is always
available from the cloud, Mimecast minimizes risk and reduces cost and
complexity, while providing total end-to-end control of email. Founded
in the United Kingdom in 2002, Mimecast serves more than 2,000
customers worldwide and has offices in the United States, South Africa,
Scandinavia, the Middle East and the Channel Islands.
About Iron Mountain Digital
Iron Mountain Digital is the world's leading provider of Storage-as-a
Service solutions 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 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.
* Mimecast was included in Gartner report, “Cool Vendors in Email
Archiving 2009”, published March 3, 2009. The report was authored by:
Carolyn DiCenzo, Kenneth Chin, Adam W. Couture.
About Gartner's Cool Vendor Selection Process
Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in
any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight
interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner
disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this
research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a
particular purpose. Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that
offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to
do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have,
business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology);
Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in
approximately the past six months.