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Try our Store
and Scan Service
If the costs of scanning are proving
prohibitive for you or your company, why not talk to us about
Store and Scan where we can store your paperwork for 6, 12 or
24 months, Free of Charge, whilst scanning at an agreed rate
each month.
For example, if you have 500 boxes, each
containing 1000 sheets, this would cost around £10,000 to scan
in one go.
With Store and Scan you can store these
with us Free Of Charge and use our retrieval service, which is
also free, where any requested file is emailed back to you
within 24 hours of any request.
All you need to do is pay for 20 boxes to
be scanned each month, for a period of 24 months, meaning your
costs are spread over time, leaving the ability to get rid of
the paper archive from day one, along with the storage problem
and the administration time involved in retrievals.
20 boxes would cost around £500 per month
meaning the £10,000 problem is no longer a problem!
If you are interested in this service,
please contact us
now using our contact page, or give us a call on 0870 421 5640
and ask to speak to one of our sales team who will be only too
pleased to help.
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July 25, 2006
Two Iron Mountain Inc. data storage
facilities were hit by fires this month, destroying one
facility and damaging the other, but the causes of the blazes
have yet to be determined.
On July 12, a fire in the Iron Mountain
storage facility in Prologis Park, Bromley-by-Bow, in London,
burned the building to the ground, destroying all of the
records in the 126,000-square-foot structure, according to
Melissa Mahoney, director of corporate communications for the
Boston-based company.
An investigation is under way to determine
not only the cause of the blaze, but also why fire suppression
systems didn't work, she said.
The London facility, which had
fire-detection and sprinkler systems, stored primarily
archival business records for London organizations,
according to the company. Iron Mountain said that it expects
that all of the records in the London warehouse will be lost.
Several prominent law firms stored files there, according to
news accounts.
Neal Hennegan, director of technology at
Gilsbar, now keeps duplicates of data at its own facilities as
well as at Iron Mountain. "The days of physical remote storage
are clearly numbered," he said.
The BBC reported that the London Iron
Mountain building was six stories high and that 20- and
30-foot-high flames required more than 100 firefighters to
control. According to one newspaper account, witnesses heard
explosions.
In the other fire, the city of Ottawa
itself was storing records in the facility, which also
contained archival files belonging to private organizations,
according to newspaper accounts. Seventy-five firefighters
were called in to fight that fire, according to news reports.
Users in the U.K. whose data was destroyed
by the fire received phone calls and visits, said Ken Rubin,
senior vice president of marketing for Iron Mountain. Iron
Mountain customers in the U.K. not affected by the fire
received letters from the company, he said. Iron Mountain also
called users affected by the fire in the Ottawa facility.
"We are not publicizing this to customers
around the world who were unaffected," he said. "Over time, as
we get some distance and more information is available, we'll
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