BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 28, 2013-- Iron Mountain® Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) can now advise customers on how
best to store and manage electronic files, thanks to a new relationship
with Paragon Solutions, an advisory consulting and systems integration
firm.
Paragon’s expertise in managing electronic records rounds out Iron
Mountain’s existing consulting services and solutions for hardcopy
documents. The combination of the two firms now gives customers a more
comprehensive partner that can help them better store, access and use
their information, regardless of its format.
Announced today at the start of the ARMA
2013 Conference & Exhibition, the relationship offers clients a
mix of technology and consulting for tackling common information
challenges. These include ensuring information pertinent to a lawsuit
can be found quickly, improving records-retention policies and
implementing enterprise content management technology.
“Our customers must manage a complex data environment of physical and
electronic information, making sure it’s both secure and accessible,”
said
Blaine Rigler
, senior vice president and general manager, Records
Management for Iron Mountain. “To help our clients meet their
challenges, we seek partners who can complement our strengths and make
our offerings as comprehensive as our customers’ needs. Paragon better
enables us to help organizations achieve information governance.”
The practice of information governance inside most companies strives to
mitigate risks like potential data loss, regulatory noncompliance and
discovery unpreparedness, with the rewards of uncovering business
intelligence in the data. The job has never been more complex with the
rapid growth of information and the expanding landscape of regulations.
“We think this is an ideal marriage, coupling Paragon’s years of digital
information governance expertise with Iron Mountain to deliver a
complete set of solutions our mutual clients need and value,” said
Erik
Raper
, senior vice president, corporate alliances for Paragon Solutions.
Iron Mountain’s solutions allow organizations to centralize the
management of physical and electronic records, making it easier to apply
one set of policies for access rights, retention periods and destruction
protocols, regardless of where information is stored. The company offers
consulting for assessing and improving records programs, as well as
services for information destruction, data backup and recovery, and
document scanning. As a result, organizations can find information
faster, lower their risks of noncompliance and cut storage costs.
About Paragon Solutions
Paragon Solutions is an advisory consulting and systems integration firm
that specializes in enterprise information management to help clients
leverage information assets for better business results. The company
does this through its industry practices, solution accelerators and
specialized technology competencies that help clients achieve
operational efficiency, business scalability and regulatory compliance.
Paragon works with businesses that are focused in a few key
industries—communications, financial services, healthcare, insurance and
life sciences. The industry-focused practices work with Paragon’s
competency groups to address today’s client concerns in Process
Optimization, Information Management and Information Insight. For more
information, please visit the Paragon website at www.consultparagon.com,
or call 1.800.462.5582.
About Iron Mountain Incorporated
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) is a leading provider of storage
and information management services. The company’s real estate network
of over 64 million square feet across more than 1,000 facilities in 35
countries allows it to serve customers with speed and accuracy. And its
solutions for records
management, data
backup and recovery, document
management, and secure
shredding help organizations to lower storage costs, comply with
regulations, recover from disaster, and better use their information for
business advantage. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain stores and protects
billions of information assets, including business documents, backup
tapes, electronic files and medical data. Visit www.ironmountain.com
for more information.
Source: Iron Mountain Incorporated
For Iron Mountain:
Dan O’Neill, 617-535-2966
dan.oneill@ironmountain.com
or
For
Paragon Solutions:
Erik Raper, 908-653-3016
eraper@consultparagon.com