Storage service vendor Iron Mountain has added another line to its storage-as-a-service portfolio in the shape of an email archiving and e-discovery service for UK organisations that is hosted out of the company’s secure data centres.
The company said the Mimecast-based Total Email Management service covers hosted archiving, continuity, security and data leak prevention and can be extended into e-disocvery support with an ability to seamlessly transfer archived data to legal discovery services operated by its Stratify subsidiary.
The service can be used to archive up to 10 years-worth of email in a secure offsite location, but which can be searched from the desktop.
Administrators can set policies to detect and prevent key confidential or restricted information within emails and attachments from leaking to unauthorised persons, the company said.
In the case of potential litigation, email retention policies are suspended to prevent destruction if a legal hold is declared, with full forensic audit trails maintained on every search and every access to retained emails.
Various e-discovery tools are also provided so that content can be searched and analysed.
Iron Mountain has started to build out is hosted data service lines, and earlier in the year announced the release of a cloud-based storage platform for file archiving.
Virtual File Store offers businesses a cost-effective option for long-term storage of inactive data at off-site data centres, but which integrates into the existing storage infrastructure so that inactive files can be migrated over a VPN. Files can be retrieved on demand by authorised users.
