Magic Quadrant Evaluation places Iron Mountain NearPoint Solution as
a Leader
BOSTON, Nov 03, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Iron
Mountain (NYSE: IRM), the information management company, today
announced that it is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in Gartner
Inc.'s Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving 2010 report
for its NearPoint(R)
on-premise content archiving solution. Published on Oct. 29, 2010, by
Sheila Childs and Kenneth Chin, the Enterprise Information Archiving
(EIA) report is a review of products and solutions available to
enterprises for storing and accessing their email and files.
Gartner's Magic Quadrant report positions technology vendors within a
particular quadrant based on their completeness of vision and ability to
execute when addressing companies' information archiving needs.
Gartner's view regarding vendor placement is heavily influenced by the
more than 1,500 conversations on the topic of EIA during the past 18
months with Gartner clients. In addition, the Magic Quadrant methodology
includes the solicitation of references from each vendor, and for this
Magic Quadrant, Gartner conducted nearly 100 surveys and/or
conversations on the vendor products.
According to the Gartner report,
"Enterprises are looking for products that can deliver policy-based
retention management and disposition, as well as legal hold and early
case assessment, in a cost-effective way."
The Iron Mountain NearPoint solution is an enterprise-archiving platform
to consistently manage the retention and disposition of email, files and
SharePoint information per corporate governance policy. NearPoint
provides applications for discovery, compliance, legal-hold, recovery,
and end-user search as part of an information management framework.
NearPoint content archiving enables customers to reduce information
risk, and lower their storage and discovery costs. The NearPoint
solution is part of Iron Mountain's comprehensive portfolio of cloud and
on-premise information management solutions.
"Companies are challenged by the exponential growth of information and
the impact this has on processes for discovery or to comply with
governance policy. Archiving is a critical step to standardize the
processes for managing information," said Scott Whitney, vice president
of product marketing, Iron Mountain Digital. "Companies need smart
storage too; that is, content repositories capable of classifying
information and extending the information for access, compliance and
litigation purposes. Only then, can they have better control. We're
pleased to be included in the leaders quadrant as we believe it affirms
our strength in helping our customers manage their information, wherever
it resides, in the cloud or on-premise."
A complimentary copy of the Gartner magic quadrant report is available
here: http://digital.ironmountain.com/forms/IMDGartnerMQforEnterpriseInformationArchiving2010.
About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2010 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused
with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a
marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's
analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that
marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor,
product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise
technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders"
quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and
is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all
warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including
any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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 @IronMountainInc
for more information.
SOURCE: Iron Mountain Incorporated
Iron Mountain
Laura Sudnik, 508-808-7528
Laura.Sudnik@ironmountain.com
or
Weber Shandwick
Amy Shirk, 617-520-7286
ashirk@webershandwick.com