Products: Backup, Recovery & Archiving

	Iron Mountain NearPoint Content Archiving Solution Every organization needs to be able to produce and preserve electronically stored information (ESI) for legal proceedings, regulatory investigations and internal investigations if called upon. Government inquiries, criminal and civil proceedings, and financial audits are just a few of the numerous circumstances that can force a costly and time-consuming search of ESI, including Exchange email, SharePoint data and office files. Organizations deal with managing the challenges of ever-growing volumes of email, files and SharePoint content. Iron Mountain NearPoint™ addresses this challenge with its next-generation email, file system, and SharePoint archiving platform. It is the first and only product to combine archiving and recovery in one unified solution, with no impact and re-architecture of production content systems. Each NearPoint module – NearPoint for Exchange, NearPoint for SharePoint, and NearPoint for File System Archiving (FSA) – is available as a stand-alone product or as part of an integrated suite. Easily customizable for what is right for your organization. The platform is enhanced by applications for eDiscovery, Content Monitoring, Retention and Classification, PST Management, Tiered Storage Management, and Disaster Recovery. Iron Mountain provides an SDK for partners to deliver applications on the Iron Mountain platform. For more information, click here. Iron Mountain NearPoint for Exchange Email Archiving Complete Email Capture with Zero Footprint Incorporates an innovative data capture method called Continuous Application Shadowing™ that utilizes Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and Exchange transaction log shipping to log files the instant they are committed to disk and stores them “off-host” on NearPoint. It’s an application-intelligent process that also blocks corruption from the back-up copy. All email content is extracted from the log files off-host, where it is indexed and stored with single-instance storage. There is zero footprint on the production Exchange environment – a huge benefit for IT Ensures COMPLETE capture – not just sent and received messages, but calendar items, tasks, contacts, item histories, etc. Multiple capture methods, including MAPI, journaling, continuous application shadowing™ (log shipping) Flexible and granular retention management, by user, AD group, folder, message, and even content Provides Exchange back-up and recovery in a single solution with archiving For more information, click here. Iron Mountain NearPoint PST File Management Managing Files for Retention and Disposition Microsoft® Office Outlook Personal Store (PST) files create perhaps the most difficult challenges for an Exchange administrator. Users routinely offload email messages and attachments from the Exchange Server to local PST files to stay below mailbox quotas. However, storing valuable information in files widely distributed across employee desktops/laptops causes many problems. First, very few companies have a data protection strategy down to the desktop level, so storing email in PST files exposes a huge amount of company intellectual property to data loss resulting from hardware failure and lost—or stolen—laptops. Second, because of the widespread distribution of PST files, managing email contained in PST files for compliance and legal discovery can also be very costly. The PST dilemma is how to manage these files in a manner that supports an organization’s need for retention and disposition, legal discovery, and compliance while keeping it accessible to end-users. NearPoint PST File Management: Automated Archiving and Management Iron Mountain NearPoint PST Archiving (for Microsoft® Exchange Server) performs automated archiving and management of .PST files. The PST Archiving application is an add-on option for Iron Mountain NearPoint that crawls the network and uploads .PST files into the NearPoint archive. The crawl process runs according to defined policies and schedules as defined by the administrator based on server resource lists. Once the .PST files are loaded into the NearPoint archive, all email data is indexed and easily accessed by end- users via Microsoft Outlook® or OWA. PST data can also be quickly searched by auditors for legal discovery. Centrally manage all PST data in an indexed email archive Enables full-text search of all PST data, including attachments, for legal discovery Offers Self-Service Access for legal discovery, and individual search and retrieval Consistently applies company email retention and disposition policies for compliance Eliminates the need for PST files and reduces storage demand on desktops and file servers Automated PST Archiving The NearPoint PST Archiving application seamlessly integrates with NearPoint and provides total management of PST files. The PST archiving policies are created with the help of an intuitive wizard that walks the administrator step-by-step through the entire process. First, the administrator loads the target machine list from a Microsoft Excel file. After the machine list is loaded, a second wizard creates the PST archival policy. The PST archiving policy: Can only classify, classify and archive, or classify, archive and delete Automatically crawls the network and uploads all PST files according to the policy Maps all permissions and profiles of each user's PST files without user intervention or involvement Supports a PST elimination strategy when configured to delete PST files after they are safely archived. For PST files that remain (not deleted), the PST Archiving application maintains a list of the names, locations, sizes, owners and last activity Repeated passes of the PST crawler capture and index new incremental PST data For more information, click here. Iron Mountain NearPoint for File Systems Archiving Automated File System Management Easily scan file shares and capture files based on archival policies (e.g. size, date) Full-text index all archived content and de-duplicate across multiple file shares, as well as across messages, attachments, and archived SharePoint content for true global, single-instancing Optionally, replace content on the file system with stubs in order to reap storage cost savings and ease file system back-up processes; unlike first-generation solutions, NearPoint utilizes advanced stubbing technology that optimizes use of network resources and storage during stub recall operations For more information, click here. Iron Mountain NearPoint for SharePoint Archiving and Recovery in a Single Solution Provides a comprehensive solution to managing SharePoint data with integrated archiving, recovery, and eDiscovery Combines both archiving and recovery while maintaining easy end-user access to information Offers Item-level recovery and coarse-grained (full environment) recovery Provides full fidelity SharePoint data capture available – capture all content types and associated metadata and attachments, perform continuous capture via Change Notification, and preserve the relationships between sites and content Manages the retention and disposition of SharePoint content across the archive in accordance with organizational policies For more information, click here. Iron Mountain NearPoint Tiered Storage Option (TSO) Map Service Levels to Underlying Storage Devices to Improve Archive Performance Corporations are under growing pressure to cost effectively meet the business service level requirements of internal stakeholders—including legal, information security, regulatory supervision, and end-user. Business service level requirements for archiving include end-user search times, time for recall, and presentation of electronically stored information as part of an eDiscovery process, time periods for retention of content, and legal holds. With archived file and email data projected to grow 55% CAGR and 73% CAGR respectively from 2007 to 2012 (Figure 1), both storage costs and the operational burdens to manage this growth will be significant. . To learm how you can effectively leverage data retention service levels, cost effectively, click here. Iron Mountain NearPoint Disaster Recovery Disaster Protection and Service Continuity for Exchange Microsoft® Exchange demands the highest levels of data protection and availability. As for many enterprises it is one, if not, the most important application because end-users are highly dependent on the content it contains and the communication tools it provides. What would your organization do if there was ever a system outage or a site disaster? Do you have a plan in place to constantly monitor and back-up your Exchange data – email, files, SharePoint – should it every go down? Without a data protection plan in place your organization could end up crippled. Therefore, disaster recovery plan is vital so you can proactively plan to subvert disaster with an off-site data replication plan for protection against site disasters or system outages, you can do just that. Simultaneously save time, money and unnecessary headaches, all with zero footprint on your Exchange server. NearPoint Disaster Recovery Application: A Total Solution for Data Protection The NearPoint Disaster Recovery application integrates with Iron Mountain NearPoint™ and provides a total solution for data protection; both local and remote configurations are supported. Iron Mountain NearPoint is capable of restoring Exchange databases, storage groups, or the entire exchange server in the event of a hardware or software failure. The NearPoint Disaster Recovery application extends the capability of NearPoint and enables restoration of Exchange data to a standby Exchange Server, including restarting of Exchange services and remapping of mailboxes in an Active Directory Server. Administrators configure disaster recovery policies and perform pretests to verify standby servers are configured accurately. When disaster strikes, "one click" is all it takes to initiate complete Exchange failover. Fast, automated recovery of Exchange, performed by NearPoint, minimizes loss of service and provides business continuity of critical Exchange services. Management of the NearPoint Disaster Recovery application is simplified with wizard-driven menus to guide set-up and help define the failover policies. Configuration checks are performed during the set-up process to ensure the accuracy of the environment. Should resources change, monitoring features of the NearPoint Disaster Recovery application alert the administrator something has been altered in the set-up. The application also ensures the disaster recovery set-up is accurate and will perform reliably when disaster strikes. NearPoint Disaster Recovery application can also be integrated as part of a broader disaster recovery solution such as NetApp’s SnapManager for Exchange. For more information, click here.

Iron Mountain NearPoint Content Archiving Solution