Adapt IT have chosen three key Iron Mountain products to take to market initially, possibly extending this product range in the future. These include the Iron Mountain Connected Backup for PC Suite – an automated secure backup system for desktop and laptops, utilizing minimal bandwidth. Customers can add Connected Classify and Collect to give them added capability for data visibility, reporting, search and forensic-sound collections of data stored on users PCs. LiveVault is an automated, secure, efficient and monitored tape-free backup for data. It is a disk-based, online backup and recovery solution that removes the risks and failures inherent in tape backup and traditional methods. NearPoint is an archive protection; search retrieval and access solution for Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft file system content. In addition, clients have the option of deploying on the premises, private cloud, hybrid cloud or pure cloud technologies, depending on the product offering.

 

Worldwide, more than 2000 laptops are stolen every day, and every 15 seconds a hard drive crashes. 93% of all computer users have lost data in the last three years due to circumstances beyond their control, and one out of every two companies that loses data in a disaster is out of business within two years. So while data protection and recovery might not seem like a pressing business requirement, statistics show that it is increasingly becoming an important investment for any business to make.

 

The legal and governance landscape is changing in South Africa with the new Companies Act, King III Code and the Consumer Protection Act effective from 1st April 2011, and the pending Protection of Personal Information law, where public and private sector companies will need to ready there people, processes and ICT Systems to adhere and accommodate the many requirements for these including but not limited to better data protection and records retention.