New Managed Service Solution Helps Customers Retrieve Data from Legacy
Media and Optimize Their Backup Environment for Future Strategies and
Technologies
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Today, Iron
Mountain® Incorporated, the storage and information management
company, and Trusted
Data Solutions, LLC (TDS), a leader in data backup and conversion,
announced Iron Mountain’s Restoration Assurance Program, a joint global
managed service solution that makes it fast and easy for companies to
retrieve all of the information they need from all data backup systems
and tape formats.
Litigation is increasing and regulatory compliance is getting tighter.
Data requests to support eDiscovery media can come in to an IT
organization from many departments such as legal, compliance and line of
business. This information frequently resides on legacy media. Though
necessary, time spent retrieving that information takes away from other
core IT responsibilities, and especially in the case of legal and
regulatory events, can seriously disrupt IT budgets and planning.
“This is an exciting offering for us in that it allows us to respond to
a customer need that was going unmet. We found that customers were
keeping older tape systems alive just so they could occasionally
retrieve data from those older media formats, but now we can give
customers the peace of mind of knowing that data from previous formats
of backup media can easily be accessed and restored on demand when
needed,” said Eileen Sweeney, senior vice president and general manager
of data management, Iron Mountain. “There are specialized forensic tools
that can be used to retrieve data from damaged or obsolete media, but
most IT teams don’t have these tools or the desire to use them.”
Customized to individual customer requirements, Iron Mountain’s
Restoration Assurance Program guarantees restoration capability of
information from all tape formats and systems, allowing IT professionals
to have fast access to all of their data that resides on tape, while at
the same time allowing them to decommission their legacy tape
infrastructure. This enables companies to respond to eDiscovery events
or support compliance substantiation faster, more predictably and more
cost effectively than ever before, which is a key requirement for legal,
compliance and business units alike. Additionally, decommissioning older
tape assets in tandem will help customers save significant time, energy
and resources, reducing hard IT costs.
“We have enjoyed a successful partnership with Iron Mountain for over a
decade, and we’re very excited to build on that partnership to offer the
Restoration Assurance Program to their world-wide customer base,” said
Chris Clark, president of TDS. “This program can help every single Iron
Mountain Data Management customer by relieving the burden and
complexities of managing its legacy data environments and giving them
more flexibility to adapt to continually evolving future backup
strategies and methods.”
“IT teams continue to evolve their data protection solutions to
accommodate their ever-changing production infrastructure, but most
organizations have to retain data far longer than the typical lifecycle
of their data protection product(s),” said Jason Buffington, senior data
protection analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group. “Add increased
litigation and regulatory requirements to the operational challenges of
maintaining older backup solutions and tape inventories, and it is no
wonder that many organizations are looking for smarter ways to manage
their long-term data. Iron Mountain’s Restoration Assurance Program
takes these burdens away from the IT department while guaranteeing
access to information contained on older tape systems.”
To learn more about Iron Mountain’s Restoration Assurance Program,
please visit www.ironmountain.com/RAP.
About Trusted Data Solutions, LLC:
Trusted Data Solutions,
LLC (TDS) is the leading in provider of backup tape restoration and data
conversion services for corporations, government agencies, law firms and
leading eDiscovery providers alike. TDS is comprised of a team of
professionals with unparalleled experience and commitment to excellence.
Their team has been innovators in the field of backup tape related
eDiscovery and information management for over 20 years. TDS offers
world class tape restoration, email processing, voice log and voicemail
processing and legacy data conversion services to corporations
world-wide. Headquartered in New York City and operates Restoration
Assurance facilities in New Jersey, California and the United Kingdom.
TDS is privately held.
About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM)
is a leading provider of storage and information management services.
The company’s real estate network of over 67 million square feet across
more than 1,000 facilities in 36 countries allows it to serve customers
around the world. And its solutions for records
management, data
management, document
management, data
center management and secure
shredding help organizations to lower storage costs, comply with
regulations, recover from disaster, and better use their information.
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