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Data restoration overview

While it's critical for businesses to retain information for legal and compliance purposes, the time and expense for finding and retrieving specific elements of that data typically falls on IT

Knowing what legacy backup data you have becomes critical any time you’re faced with an audit, litigation or discovery request. But as your media library becomes larger and increasingly complex – and includes multiple media types – keeping track of everything is no easy task. And when you struggle to locate and retrieve the required data in a timely manner, it can open your organisation up to considerable financial, brand risk and skyrocketing costs.

Also, if you’re preparing to migrate data due to new technology or an acquisition, you’ll need to be able to locate, identify and catalogue the various data elements on media, plus verify it before uploading it onto the new system.

E-Discovery
Compliance requests
Legal holds
Migrating data to a new system

Data restoration and migration

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Identify and restore data in the time you need it

Iron Mountain provides a managed, scalable service to securely archive data offsite and restore specific data on-demand, in the event of a compliance or legal discovery. The process is auditable, defensible and repeatable, with a predictable cost. Iron Mountain® Restoration Assurance Programme helps you know what data to keep, for how long, and gives you the ability to recover from legacy media when you need it.

The solution includes:

Offsite tape vaulting - lets you enjoy the peace of mind that comes with knowing that your archival tapes are protected in highly- secure and environmentally- controlled facilities.
Managed Restoration - ensures that your archival tapes can be restored and data can be migrated at any time, and at a predictable cost, without the worry and cost of maintaining legacy backup systems and hardware.

Data migration overview

Remove the time and cost of having to migrate data to new systems and ensure that you can easily and quickly find and retrieve that data

Even the most sophisticated organisations can become inundated with data retrieval requests. After all, the volume of data being preserved today is staggering: more than 90 percent of new corporate data is generated electronically. Application and infrastructure complexity only adds to the difficulty as more than 70 percent of that data is stored on disparate systems scattered throughout the enterprise.

The solution includes:

Media migration - we have the high speed infrastructure needed to move your data safely and efficiently.
Managed restoration - easily convert business data into the right formats for secured retention and easy access.

Managed restoration

Don’t spend time and money managing legacy systems in order to respond to litigation requests

Litigation requests take time and effort to produce information from a large number of legacy backup tapes. And if you’ve recently upgraded your tape library and backup systems, it will likely require a considerable amount of time to access and read your old tapes using outdated hardware and software.

Iron Mountain can manage the process around finding, retrieving and delivering old data in a readable format in the event of a litigation or compliance request.

Litigation and compliance request? – Easily locate the information regardless of systems used to backup that data

Companies are seeing a higher volume of legacy data requests in response to litigation, regulatory investigations and internal requests. But keeping infrastructure for legacy backup tape, database, and email systems tie up valuable space in your data centre and are expensive to maintain.

Iron Mountain’s Managed Restoration service helps you restore archived data regardless of the software and equipment used to place that data on the tape and the format of the media. You can be confident that each request to locate information from your backed up data will be handled with precision, professionalism and predictable cost

Media migration

Ensure you’re complying with your industry regulations on data retention and format

Keeping your company’s data in a secure, current format is a time-consuming and strenuous task. Iron Mountain’s Media Migration solution migrates data into the appropriate format and encrypts it without interrupting your everyday data backup practice —without stretching your staff and budget.

Design an appropriate data protection and retention process to mitigate risk

The reality is that the data you may need to compile to satisfy an audit or litigation request could reside in many different locations and media formats spanning decades. And producing that data in the right format can be a daunting task. You need to mitigate the risk of failing to comply or being unable to respond to these requests in a timely manner.

Migrate your business data into the right formats for secured retention and easy access in the future by using the Iron Mountain® Media Migration service. Our experts will help you understand specific regulations and design an optimal media migration and retention process. Having an optimal process will mitigate any audit and litigation risks by keeping the data protected, but easily accessible if it’s needed and all without disrupting the current backup processes and at a predictable cost.

Why Iron Mountain

*Iron Mountain cannot accept biohazards, material that is flammable, material that is regulated by laws and/or regulations relating to the environment, items that may attract pests, items that are dangerous or unsafe to handle, or hazardous materials.

Confidence

Ensure your organisation’s data is in full compliance with industry regulations.

Fast retrieval

Respond promptly to an audit or litigation request with the data you need backed by a defensible plan.

Mitigate risk

Reduce the risk of fines, sanctions, and loss of public trust.

Cost efficiency

Keep your data in a ready-for-use format and to maximise the value of your legacy intellectual property.

Which type of services are you looking for?

Ensure you’re complying with your industry regulations on data retention and format

Keeping your company’s data in a secure, current format is a time-consuming and strenuous task. In addition, a host of government regulations, such as SEC Rules 17a-3 and 17a-4, require the creation and storage of numerous types of records for set lengths of time in specific formats under strict security parameters.

Iron Mountain’s Media Migration Services migrate data into the appropriate format and encrypts it without interrupting your everyday data backup practise —without stretching your staff and budget.

Design an appropriate data protection and retention process to mitigate risk

The data you may need to gather to satisfy an audit or litigation request may reside in many different locations and in multiple media formats spanning decades. And producing that data in the right format in a timely manner can be a daunting task.

By using Iron Mountain’s Media Migration Services, you can mitigate your risk of failing to comply or being unable to respond by migrating your data to the right formats for easy access. Our experts will help you understand specific regulations and design an optimal media migration and retention process so your data remains protected, but also accessible without disrupting your current backup processes and at a predictable cost.

You’ve made some critical business decisions about how you want to utilise cloud storage. The next step now is getting your data into the cloud.

Leave your Google® Cloud seeding to a trusted industry expert like Iron Mountain. We can help you securely and efficiently migrate your data using high-speed infrastructure, trusted best practises, and an auditable chain of custody. Iron Mountain makes getting your data into the cloud simple, fast and economical.

Seeding is as easy as 1-2-3

Save your data to your choice of media and ship it to Iron Mountain through your preferred courier service
Iron Mountain then uploads your data to the Google® Cloud platform using secure, high speed infrastructure and Iron Mountain’s secure chain of custody best practises
Once complete, Iron Mountain sends the hard drive (or data shuttle) back to you, store it within our vault, or securely destroy it

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Request Google^® Cloud seeding by submitting a request form and our team will contact you shortly!

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Hardware failures, human errors, software malfunctions, viruses, and natural disasters are inevitable. Data loss doesn’t have to be.

In the event that your hard drives become damaged, corrupted, misconfigured, or accidently formatted, don’t be left scrambling—rest assured knowing Iron Mountain can quickly and securely recover your data.

Securely and quickly recover data from damaged IT sources and minimise the cost of data loss Ideal for businesses lacking the onsite expertise or tools, Iron Mountain Hard Disk Drive Recovery Service is a fully managed service for retrieving data in a timely manner from compromised IT sources.

Data recovery engineers are dedicated to the latest techniques and methodologies for prompt, highly skilled data recovery, and will tailor a recovery process specific to the urgency of your situation, with work performed either remotely or on-premise. We follow a secure and defensible process that will stand up in legal, investigative, and eDiscovery scenarios.

Hardware recovery services include:

Laptop and desktops
Server, network, and RAIDs
Mobile and virtual devices
All types of files and operating systems
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