Iron Mountain Incorporated

Iron Mountain Incorporated is one of Herman Knaust 1951 based American company that specializes in services for information management. The origins of the company in a disused iron ore mine, which Knaust Iron Mountain ( Eisenberg ) called and had originally intended for the cultivation of mushrooms. The headquarters of the company is located in Boston, Massachusetts. The publicly traded company ( NYSE: IRM) employs approximately 21,000 people and is listed on the S & P 500. In the Fortune 1000, Iron Mountain is ranked 681 of 2009, the company achieved a turnover of 3 billion U.S. dollars. The service portfolio includes archiving, backup, manage and restore the physical and digital corporate documents, data and media, high-volume scanning and indexing of data to the operation of cloud data centers. Among the customers of Iron Mountain include government institutions, international corporations and small and medium-sized companies.

Iron Mountain operates more than 1,000 locations in 39 countries worldwide, including a former mine in Boyers (Pennsylvania). There, for example, store the data for Corbis and the music archive of BMG. Total store more than 12 million cubic meters of paper documents and 65 million media into the secured archive centers of the company. In addition, it manages about 10 billion emails and 2.5 million PCs.

The European headquarters are located in London, UK. The German headquarters of Iron Mountain is in Hamburg. The technology arm of Iron Mountain in Germany, Iron Mountain Digital, sits in Neu- Isenburg near Frankfurt.

The company offers the following services in Germany for information management:

Physical Information Management - archiving and provision of documents and data carriers in 14 archive centers in Germany. Classification and storage of information in accordance with industry regulations. Own fleet of vehicles for the safe transport of documents and tapes. Backup disks in case of disasters.

Intelligent scanning - Conversion of business-critical and actively -used documents in a digital format. High-volume digitization of archived documents. Digitization of documents stored at Iron Mountain (scanning -on-demand ) as required. Process-oriented scanning, data extraction, validation and auditing of complex processes (eg, invoice receipts, personal documents ). Remote access to digitally archived documents via an internet portal.

Digital information management - protection of digital data on servers, desktops, laptops, or in emails to minimize the risks of data loss. Automated online backup, digital archiving and cloud storage services. Content Sensitive, automated data classification. E -Discovery solutions for litigation support.