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Grid computing is a form of distributed computing that involves coordinating and sharing computing, application, data, storage, or network resources across organizations. Grid technologies allow organizations to change the way organizations can deploy and resolve complex archiving deployments. The Iron Mountain NearPoint Multi-Node Grid Architecture is the most scalable architecture in the email archive industry and is provided standard in NearPoint. Utilizing a super-scalar or super-pipelined grid, NearPoint can support systems ranging in size from 100 mailboxes to tens of thousands of mailboxes. A hot-plug modular architecture allows servers and storage to be added or taken away as required, with no downtime. This capability benefits large Exchange environments as well as medium-size environments with high peak demands. Archive storage capacity grows on demand automatically, and default configuration and wizard-driven menus simplify deployment and management.

A recent research by Applied Research has shown that almost 90% of organizations see value in having a data plan, however less than half of those actually has a plan in place.  In my experience even the plans that are in place are lacking or inadequate.  A lot of organizations, when they plan for a data retention plan, only think about the obvious, which is tapes and email, however valuable data, or electronic records, are in much more data repositories than many organizations realize. 

It is of my opinion that there are almost zero reasons to legitimately have PST files in a corporate environment and I have been speaking on this topic a few times in the past.  Many people underestimate how bad the problem / infestiation of PST files is in their organization and its erradication can be a long and tricky process actually unless you have adequate tools available for you like Iron Mountain NearPoint and its PST Archiving Option.  On August 10th I will present the latest on how to plan to get rid of PST files.  Learn everything that you need to know about how to tackle such a project.  You can register for the webinar here.

I’ve been in this industry for most of the last decade now and have seen pretty much all the ways archiving products can and have been deployed in organizations. From small to Fortune 500, they all are slightly different in the way their internal IT is being managed and used.  Archiving products can have a big impact on your infrastructure with requirements and there is one particular piece that I’d like to highlight in this post that many forget.

I recently ran across a few articles on  U.K. developer CPC Group Ltd and Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Co, which is the real-estate investment arm of Qatar’s sovereign-wealth fund. The decision was that Qatari Diar wrongfully backed out of a deal to redevelop London’s landmark Chelsea Barracks site after the plan was opposed by Prince Charles, a judge ruled.  

Snapshotting archivable data to your archive

A while back I already wrote about this briefly, but I’d like to bring it up again simply because the technology and idea behind it is so fascinating.
Users of NetApp and Microsoft Exchange Iron Mountain’s newly-acquired NearPoint™ solution for archiving, accessing and protecting email. InterVision’s customers can
enjoy high performance, manageability and lower operating costs by combining leading technology from NetApp and Iron Mountain in a single integrated solution for managing
Microsoft Exchange.

Iron Mountain Incorporated announced today the release of Stratify Legal Discovery® OnPoint, a new hosted eDiscovery offering that simplifies eDiscovery while reducing costs by delivering free processing and loading of unlimited data for early stage filtering to drive high-productivity review.  It enables attorney’s hands-on control of data from the start of a matter coupled with advanced analytics and filtering technologies using linear review methodologies while at the same time establishing a defensible process for selecting responsive data. A one-time fee starting at $500 per gigabyte pertains only to reviewable data.

The newly launched Dell DX Object Storage Platform is an integrated hardware and software solution designed to efficiently access, store and distribute billions of files and other digital content. With the NearPoint solution, the unified content management offering will help organizations reduce the costs and risks of managing unstructured data from Microsoft Exchange.

In this blog post I’m highlighting another of Iron Mountain Digital’s offering, LiveVault.

Businesses of all sizes depend on their computer data for their very existence.  Whether it’s a large enterprise with transactional data or a 15-person law office with valuable client records, business data represents a valuable and irreplaceable business asset. The business risk of losing this data — or even losing access to this data — is well documented and well recognized. A survey of over 200 small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) by Imation indicates that 90 percent have some formal backup and restore strategy. The question is: which strategy is best for your company?