inking in Terms of People and Dates: a Corporate Council POV by J Schler

No one wants to be trapped in a bad data relationship, and that includes your company's corporate council. So how do you navigate those big data waters without using all of your time and resources? You want to meet your legal deadlines so you don't face additional (expensive) penalties, and you're worried that your IT team can't balance these additional tasks with their regular 9 to 5 obligations. Here's how a typical data restoration plays out:

When litigation happens, a enterprise's general council must first decide if they should argue against the suit or settle, keeping in mind that either option may cost millions of dollars-but also that challenging a suit involves the gathering of a massive amount of data. Some of this data may be hard to find, being stored away on archives your IT department hasn't looked at in years.

With all of the parties involved in this data recovery process, including the inside council, outside council, 3rd party opposing council and collections team, things can get complicated, time-consuming and costly, quickly.

In terms of what data you have to produce (as required by the courts), corporate council thinks in terms of people and dates, but your IT department manager is thinking about whether or not he backed up last night's server-not which e-mails the CEO sent five years ago.

When you alert the IT department you need these e-mails, the manager lets you know that it could take months to recover this data.

Take, for example, a company Iron Mountain worked with recently. The company came to us with on-demand data restoration requests, asking for 10-20 tapes at a time. Our Archival Tape Management Solution (ATMS) experts had a turnaround time of about two to three days for each batch. A bit into the process, one of the execs from the company started to ask questions. He wanted to know how we were producing data so quickly. Were we cutting corners? After all, his internal IT team took several months or weeks to restore data; our times were infinitely faster.

After we answered his questions, showed him the data integrity was there and assured him our processes were simply more efficient, he decided to move all of his legal requests externally to Iron Mountain and have his internal team focus on their 9 to 5 bread-and-butter. He no longer wanted to play chicken with the courts and see his fines continue to climb every time a deadline was missed.

You may not have realized this before, but Iron Mountain experts are fully trained in litigation restoration. While your IT team has to keep up with the day-to-day, we're dedicated to providing you with fast, efficient service-and you won't even need to stop by the tape vaults to dig through your data; we handle the whole process.

If you already partner with Iron Mountain, I urge you to learn more about how we can directly sort, produce and deliver your data securely. With our ATMS service, your tapes never have to leave the watchful eye of Iron Mountain. Let IT Team focus on their job, disaster recovery, and count on Iron Mountain to deliver the data you need, when you need it.

Article Highlights:

A solution that makes data restoration a simple, fast process exists: the Iron Mountain Archival Tape Management solution.

Your IT department and your internal council speak different languages. It can be difficult to get them on the same page in terms of data and deadlines.

Our ATMS solution makes it easy to meet your legal deadlines, and your IT department can shift from dealing with restores to working on higher ROI innovation for your business. Keep costs low across your entire data restoration process: Make sure the tape archival solution provider you choose has post-production processes in place to help reduce the amount of information with which you'll need to deal, including fewer review costs and eDiscovery.

Save money and time by having external professionals handle your data recovery-you'll get the data you need, when you need it.

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