Connected(R) Classify & Collect Provides Visibility, Access, and
Control over Laptop and Desktop Data to comply with eDiscovery requests
BOSTON, Mar 30, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) --Iron
Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), an information management
services company, today introduced Connected(R) Classify
& Collect, which simplifies the collection process for
distributed PC data to comply with a legal hold request. The Connected
Classify & Collect offering helps businesses to quickly find relevant
data on laptop and desktop computers to meet litigation and compliance
requirements. The new offering reflects the company's shift to provide
customers with services and solutions that go beyond cloud storage and
support them with key on-premises requirements such as those for
eDiscovery.
"Enterprises struggle to comb quickly through their data and determine
what they have in order to respond to mounting litigation and compliance
demands," said Ramana Venkata, president, Iron
Mountain Digital, the technology arm of Iron Mountain. "These
growing data volumes and inability to find information quickly presents
enormous operational and compliance risks for our customers. We
developed the Connected Classify & Collect offering to allow customers
to be prepared for litigation when necessary and respond appropriately
by making data stored on enterprise PCs and laptops easily searchable
and discoverable."
The Connected Classify & Collect offering makes laptop and desktop data
easily visible, searchable and usable. It also protects data and
prevents accidental deletion to support eDiscovery or internal
investigations. Its enterprise-class data-classification capabilities
give administrators visibility into vast amounts of data stored on
enterprise PCs and allow them to lower eDiscovery costs by quickly
collecting relevant information to be used for early-case assessments
and first-pass reviews. Additionally, the Connected Classify & Collect
offering helps businesses establish a thorough and defensible collection
process with its ability to track all activities, including the search
terms and documents returned to support internal reviews.
"Enterprises are facing increasing amounts of litigation, regulatory and
compliance pressures and are bogged down by growing volumes of
electronic data," said Vivian Tero, Program Manager, GRC Infrastructure
with IDC. "PC backup solutions should no longer simply store and protect
data, but also enable the search, collection and classification of data
to seamlessly integrate with eDiscovery tools and processes."
With this new offering, Iron Mountain introduces the industry's first
eDiscovery-ready PC data protection solution for the enterprise. The
Connected Classify & Collect offering integrates directly with Iron
Mountain's Connected PC data backup solution to allow customers to
quickly find all relevant data across laptop and desktop computers. The
Connected Classify & Collect offering can seamlessly transfer data to
Iron Mountain's culling and on-premises early-case assessment tool,
Stratify eVantage(TM).
For larger litigation matters, organizations can easily transfer their
onsite data to Iron Mountain's hosted review solution, Stratify
Legal Discovery(R) Service.
For more information about Connected Classify & Collect, including
access to a selection of white papers and video, please visit http://www.IronMountain.com/ClassifyAndCollect.
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 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.
Photos/Multimedia Gallery Available: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=6231365&lang=en
SOURCE: Iron Mountain Incorporated
Iron Mountain Incorporated
Laura Sudnik, 508-808-7528
Laura.Sudnik@ironmountain.com
or
Kaitlin Barry, 617-520-7018
Kaitlin.Barry@webershandwick.com