Multi-faceted Consulting Team Established to Address Full Spectrum of
Customers' Information Management Needs
BOSTON, Aug 04, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
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.
SOURCE: Iron Mountain Incorporated
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