Mimosa NearPoint From Iron Mountain Certified by Dell

Iron Mountain Incorporated announced its Mimosa NearPoint solution is the first email archiving solution to be certified for the Dell DX Object Storage Platform.

   Dell DX Object Storage Platform

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.

"By combining Dell’s leading storage expertise with Iron Mountain’s experience in delivering rich, integrated information management solutions, we’re able to help more customers gain better control and use of their critical data," said Ramana Venkata, president, Iron Mountain Digital. "This signifies a deepening of our relationship with Dell, and our shared vision to help businesses manage the costs as well as the compliance and legal risks associated with electronic information."

Iron Mountain’s NearPoint solution coupled with the Dell DX Object Storage Platform helps customers address Exchange compliance and eDiscovery requirements by automating the archiving of e-mail directly to the Dell DX Object Platform. With Iron Mountain’s NearPoint solution, customers can archive compliant data through defined retention policies on the DX Object Storage Platform and handle risk-relevant data for eDiscovery purposes.

Iron Mountain’s NearPoint solution is an integrated archiving platform that provides complete data protection in one unified solution. By leveraging the Dell DX Object Storage Platform with Iron Mountain’s NearPoint solution, organizations can manage unstructured business critical data in ways that traditionally took multiple solutions to achieve in duplicated storage platforms.

"Data volumes are growing exponentially and organizations require integrated hardware and software solutions that enable them to efficiently store, manage and discover their digital content," said Brett Roscoe, senior manager, Dell Enterprise Storage. "Working with Iron Mountain, we’re able to augment our storage platform with an industry-leading integrated content archiving solution from a proven information management leader."

Iron Mountain and Dell have a long-term relationship focused on helping customers with their data protection, archiving, eDiscovery and compliance needs. Iron Mountain provides a broad range of information management solutions across the breadth of Dell storage platforms. Iron Mountain’s information management solutions are available as on-premise, cloud and hybrid solutions.

The Dell DX Object Storage Platform with Iron Mountain NearPoint is available since May 12, 2010.