Oct, 2009 : Iron Mountain Introduces Total Email Management Suite

📅 October 14, 2009 - Provides businesses with cost-effective, end-to-end control of email including archiving, security and data leak prevention.

Iron Mountain Incorporated, a provider of information protection and storage services, today announced at Storage Expo that its digital archiving solution for email management is now available for customers in the UK. The company explains that email volume is growing annually, and the average user is receiving more data in their inbox every day. This presents clear resource, management, and regulatory issues for businesses, and its solution, Total Email Management Suite, helps customers get to grips with what can potentially be a critical issue.

It avers that the Total Email Management Suite, powered by Mimecast technology, provides businesses with cost-effective, end-to-end control of email - including archiving, continuity, security and data leak prevention - hosted in its secure data centres. In addition, its customers will now have the ability to transfer their archived data to Stratify's (an Iron Mountain subsidiary) Legal Discovery Services, should they require eDiscovery support.

The company avers that key benefits and functionalities of its 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
• 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 unauthorised persons
• Retention Management/Litigation Hold - Emails can be retained based upon content policy or user preferences
• eDiscovery - Provides eDiscovery and review tools which provide search and analysis of the data

"As organisations 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 Richard Ellis, Manager, UK & Ireland, Iron Mountain Digital. "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."

"Iron Mountain Digital customers can now benefit from the combination of Iron Mountains expertise on legal discovery coupled with a robust email archiving and management solution, delivered securely via a Software-as-a-Service model" said Mark Reeves, SVP Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific, Mimecast.