Iron Mountain Incorporated
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | US46284V1017 |
| founding | 1951 |
| Seat | Boston , United States |
| management | William Meany, CEO |
| Number of employees | 26,200 |
| sales | $ 4.226 billion (2018) |
| Branch | Information management |
| Website | www.ironmountain.com |
| As of December 31, 2018 | |
Iron Mountain Incorporated is an American company specializing in information management services . It was founded by Herman Knaust in 1951. The company has its origins in a disused iron ore mine, which Knaust called Iron Mountain (Eisenberg) and which was originally intended for mushroom cultivation. The company's headquarters are in Boston , Massachusetts.
The portfolio includes archiving, backing up, managing and restoring physical and digital company documents, data and data storage media, high-volume scanning and indexing of data and the operation of cloud data centers. Iron Mountain customers include government agencies, international corporations, and small and medium-sized businesses.
Iron Mountain has over 1,000 locations in 39 countries worldwide, including a former mine near Boyers, Pennsylvania . The data from the Corbis picture agency and the BMG music archive are stored there . In total, more than 12 million cubic meters of paper documents and 65 million data carriers are stored in the company's secure archive centers. It also manages around 10 billion emails and 2.5 million PCs.
The listed company employs around 8,500 people worldwide and is listed in the S&P 500 . Iron Mountain ranks 681 on the Fortune 1000 list. In 2009, the company had sales of $ 3 billion. The European headquarters are in London , UK. Iron Mountain's German headquarters are in Hamburg . Iron Mountain's technology unit in Germany, Iron Mountain Digital, is located in Neu-Isenburg near Frankfurt.
In Germany the company offers the following services:
Physical information management - archiving and provision of documents and data carriers in 14 archive centers in Germany. Classification and retention of information in accordance with industry-specific regulations. Own vehicle fleet for the safe transport of documents and tapes. Backup of data media in the event of a disaster.
Intelligent scanning - converting critical and actively used documents to digital format. High-volume digitization of archived documents. Digitization of the documents stored at Iron Mountain as required (scanning on demand). Process-oriented scanning, data extraction, validation and auditing of complex processes (e.g. incoming invoices, personal documents). Decentralized access to digitally archived documents via an internet portal.
Digital information management - protection of digital data on servers, PCs, laptops or in e-mails to minimize the risk of data loss. Automated online backup, digital archiving and cloud storage services. Content-sensitive, automated data classification. E-Discovery Solutions for Litigation Support.
literature
- Süddeutsche Zeitung, No. 84 from 11./12./13. April 2009, p. 36
- Die Welt, March 26, 2009, p. 16
- Ruhr Nachrichten, April 27, 2010, http://www.ruhrnachrichten.de/lokales/bochum/Bochum-Archivcenter-bietet-Platz-fuer-400-Kilometer-Akten;art932,890497
Web links
- http://www.ironmountain.com Official Site (Engl.)
- Nikolaus Piper : Underground mega archive: A piece of eternity . An abandoned mine in Pennsylvania holds Bill Gates' photo collection and other treasures. And flourishes in times of crisis. May 17, 2010.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annual Report 2018 (pdf) Iron Mountain, accessed December 12, 2019 .