Iron Mountain, a global provider of information protection and storage services, has announced the expansion of its digital archiving platform for e-mail management.

The Total Email Management Suite, powered by Mimecast technology, helps companies further manage their digital information and securely retain, recover, discover, and delete e-mail at the end of its lifecycle. Until now, Iron Mountain offered businesses with SEC-compliant e-mail archiving, hosted by Iron Mountain, or Total Email Management Suite, hosted outside of Iron Mountain's data centers. With the new e-mail management solution, businesses benefit from storage within Iron Mountain's secure data centers, representing a tighter chain of custody and protection of business data.

Key benefits and functionalities of Iron Mountain’s Total Email Management Suite include:

• E-mail archiving service—Automatic and transparent archiving of up to 10 years-worth of e-mail in a secure off-site location. Users can search archives from their desktops, getting results in less than a second.• E-mail continuity service—Complete access to e-mail even during outages and disasters.• E-mail spam protection and e-mail antivirus protection—A spam filtering solution stops 99 percent of spam and has a perfect track record for stopping viruses.• Data Leak Prevention—Allows administrators to set policies to detect and prevent key confidential or restricted information within e-mails and attachments from leaking to unauthorized persons.• Retention Management/Litigation Hold—E-mails can be retained based upon content policy or user preferences. Retention policies are suspended to prevent destruction if a legal hold is declared. Full forensic audit trails are maintained on every search and every access to retained e-mails.• eDiscovery—Provides eDiscovery and review tools which provide search and analysis of the data. Back file ingestions are also possible from multiple sources including proprietary on-site archives to supplement the go-forward archive.

In addition, Iron Mountain customers will now have the ability to seamlessly transfer their archived data, whether stored in the Company’s SEC Compliant e-mail archive solution or its e-mail management solution, to Stratify’s (an Iron Mountain subsidiary) Legal Discovery Services, should they require eDiscovery support.