Iron Mountain's Data Restoration Service Enables Large Scale Electronic Discovery for Evidentiary Data Retrieval


Service Enhances Customers' Litigation Response Capability and Compliance; Provides Cost-Effective Data Restoration Solution

BOSTON, Oct. 3 / -- In response to business demand for capacity-proven electronic discovery solutions, Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE:IRM), the world's trusted partner for records management and data protection services, today announced significantly increased capacity of its Data Restoration and Electronic Discovery Support service to help organizations quickly gather, restore, search, organize and deliver e-mail and other digital records for litigation discovery, internal investigations, and regulatory inquiries.

"Continuing the trend from 2004, we've seen a consistent increase in business over the last three quarters," said John Clancy, executive vice president of Iron Mountain's digital business unit. "In order to meet our customers' growing needs for fast and efficient data restoration from backup tapes, we've increased our service capacity more than 500 percent year-to- date. This capacity, coupled with our expertise in electronic records management, will help protect and extend our leadership in this fast-growing market."

"Businesses continue to struggle under the weight of regulatory investigations and litigation requirements for producing electronically stored information for discovery. Traditionally discovery was about getting information from people's heads, tangible objects and paper. Now lawyers also need to be prepared to search a company's e-records repositories, where much of the organization's most critical information is stored, as well as networks, individual computers, backup systems and other areas where the company keeps data. Attorneys have a lot of anxiety when it comes to e- discovery because the pressure for getting it right is enormous," said George J. Socha, Jr., Esq, founder of Socha Consulting, a firm that helps businesses make informed digital discovery decisions. "Companies need a vendor that can provide a proven and repeatable process, devoted resources and capacity to handle volume."

It is estimated that conducting an electronic discovery search request on a single computer can cost as much as $1,500 and can increase to more than $100,000 for a system. Iron Mountain's Data Restoration and Electronic Discovery Support services allow businesses that have substantial electronic discovery needs to respond swiftly and cost-effectively to the increasing demands for retrieval and restoration of electronic data. This service enables a company's legal team to conduct unassisted searches on information in a secure and confidential manner, reduces the number of resources the IT department needs to manage, and provides the compliance team with a digital archive system that allows them to make sure they remain in compliance with multiple regulations on their electronic information.

Iron Mountain's Data Restoration and Electronic Discovery support service arms businesses with the ability to quickly locate, identify, organize and deliver relevant documents from across their organization in any format, often on very short notice. Iron Mountain assumes the laborious task of securely and quickly recovering e-mail and electronic records stored on backup tapes and other media. Iron Mountain then captures and indexes the digital records and loads them into its Digital Archive, where the records can be organized within Discovery Folders and made available to the attorneys for review.

As each asset is captured, it is made available via the Digital Archives Web-based user interface where approved users can search, retrieve, view and organize assets. Using Iron Mountain's sophisticated indexing and powerful search tools, all restored e-mail and other electronic records can be located and accessed instantly from any Web browser. Iron Mountain's Digital Archives enable secure, online access to businesses so they can search and organize the evidentiary data for sensitive litigation themselves, or they can outsource the task to Iron Mountain.

For more information, please contact 1-800-899-IRON or visit http://ironmountain.com/digital.

About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE:IRM) is the world's trusted partner for records management and data protection services. Founded in 1951, the Company has grown to service more than 235,000 customer accounts throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Latin America. Iron Mountain offers records management services for both physical and digital media, disaster recovery support services, and consulting -- services that help businesses save money and manage risks. For more information, visit the Company's Web site at http://ironmountain.com/news.

CONTACT: Laura Sudnik of Iron Mountain, Laura.sudnik@ironmountain.com,
+1-617-535-2907

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