Iron Mountain Archiving Solution Powered by Mimecast

Here are the press releases of Iron Mountain and then Mimecast

From Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain Incorporated announced the expansion of its digital archiving platform for email management.

The new archiving solution, Total Email Management Suite, powered by Mimecast technology, provides businesses with a cost-effective, total end-to-end control of email – including archiving, continuity, security and data leak prevention – hosted in Iron Mountain’s secure data centers. In addition, Iron Mountain customers will now have the ability to seamlessly transfer their archived data, whether stored in the Company’s SEC Compliant email archive solution or its email management solution, to Stratify‘s (an Iron Mountain subsidiary) Legal Discovery Services, should they require eDiscovery support.

“As organizations today continue to face significant risks and costs when it comes to email, the ability to securely manage and protect digital information has become more critical than ever before,” said John Clancy, president of Iron Mountain Digital, the company’s technology business unit. “Just as customers have been turning to Iron Mountain for the storage and protection of their physical records, Iron Mountain Digital’s Storage-as-a-Service model offers secure, cost-effective storage and access to digital information, including email. The Total Email Management Suite is a critical component of our digital archiving strategy – providing the rich functionality needed to protect and manage emails, enterprise-class security and necessary functionality in case of litigation, not to mention the peace of mind of a secure Iron Mountain hosted solution.”

Until now, Iron Mountain offered businesses with SEC-compliant email archiving, hosted by Iron Mountain, or Total Email Management Suite, hosted outside of Iron Mountain’s data centers. With the new email management solution, businesses benefit from storage within Iron Mountain’s secure data centers, representing a tighter chain of custody and protection of business data.

The Total Email Management Suite, powered by Mimecast technology, helps companies further manage their digital information and securely retain, recover, discover and delete email at the end of its lifecycle, while also providing continuity and hosted in Iron Mountain’s data centers.

“There are two reasons why this partnership will resonate with customers," said Brian Babineau, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “First, Iron Mountain’s entire business is focused on securely storing and protecting business data and these services are now coupled with Mimecast’s feature-rich archival and security technology to deliver a comprehensive message management offering. Second, with 80% of electronic discovery events involving e-mail, organizations need an easy way to move data between their message archive and an extensible electronic evidence platform. ESG believes that organizations should not be deciding whether or not to implement an e-mail archive; rather they should be determining how and this partnership is a great alternative for those who do not wish to implement an on-premise solution or are dealing with ongoing electronic discovery challenges.”

Key benefits and functionalities of Iron Mountain’s
Total Email Management Suite include:

• Email archiving service – Automatic and transparent archiving of up to 10 years-worth of email in a secure offsite location. Users can search archives from their desktops, getting results in less than a second.
• Email continuity service – Complete access to email even during outages and disasters.
• Email spam protection and email antivirus protection – A spam filtering solution stops 99 percent of spam and has a perfect track record for stopping viruses.
• Data Leak Prevention – Allows administrators to set policies to detect and prevent key confidential or restricted information within emails and attachments from leaking to unauthorized persons.
• Retention Management/Litigation Hold – Emails can be retained based upon content policy or user preferences. Retention policies are suspended to prevent destruction if a legal hold is declared. Full forensic audit trails are maintained on every search and every access to retained emails.
• eDiscovery – Provides eDiscovery and review tools which provide search and analysis of the data. Back file ingestions are also possible from multiple sources including proprietary onsite archives to supplement the go-forward archive.

Iron Mountain Digital’s Storage-as-a-Service
and Digital Archiving Model
As a critical part of Iron Mountain’s digital archiving business and Storage-as-a-Service portfolio, the Total Email Management Suite provides enterprise-grade, secure, low-cost and long-term storage services to help customers reduce the risk and cost of managing emails. Coupled with the recent launch of Iron Mountain’s enterprise-class, cloud-based storage archiving service, Virtual File Store, Iron Mountain continues to aggressively expand its Storage-as-a-Service offering with value-added services including discovery, recovery, classification and retention, and destruction, to enable organizations to better manage and utilize their stored information

“Iron Mountain Digital customers can now benefit from the combination of a robust email archiving and management solution designed as a service; and the secure, technology services environment and expertise from the trusted Storage-as-a-Service capability of Iron Mountain,” said Mary Kay Roberto, senior vice president and general manager for Mimecast North America, whose technology will help power the solution.

The Total Email Management Suite will be available through Iron Mountain and its channel partners in the United States in May 2009 and Europe in Q3 2009.

From Mimecast

Mimecast has formed a technology partnership with Iron Mountain Digital. The partnership is a key step in the growth of the Mimecast Partner Program and allows the company to further broaden its presence and coverage in North America. Under this agreement, Iron Mountain will leverage Mimecast technology to power its hosted Total Email Management suite.

Mary Kay Roberto, SVP and General Manager at Mimecast North America said: "Our partner ecosystem is expanding according to our plans. The technology partnership with Iron Mountain Digital demonstrates Mimecast’s fulfilment of its strategic objective to expand the Mimecast Partner Program in North America. This technology partnership will enable enterprises to control unmanageable email storage and mailbox growth, manage unpredictable costs, and give IT departments peace of mind with sophisticated security controls and end user continuity and search tools."

Mimecast has experienced increased demand for its SaaS email management services from the partner community – demonstrated by 318% revenue growth in the first nine months of fiscal 2009.

"Iron Mountain Digital’s Storage-as-a-Service model offers secure, cost-effective storage and access to digital information, including email," said John Clancy, president of Iron Mountain Digital, the company’s technology business unit. "The Total Email Management Suite, powered by Mimecast technology, helps companies further manage their digital information and securely retain, recover, discover and delete email at the end of its lifecycle, while also providing continuity and hosted in Iron Mountain’s data centers. With the new email management solution, businesses benefit from storage within Iron Mountain’s secure data centers, representing a tighter chain of custody and protection of business data."