NAID is reporting that Iron Mountain and Recall are forming a new trade group called the Association for Information Protection (AIP). The must be in response to NAID and PRISM leadership trying to force out the national players. Beware what you wish for as it might come true. Without these companies the other trade groups lose a great deal of power.

UK Companies that still have paper-based records face being sued and receive fines unless they digitize their data, according to storage supplier ONStor. They say all data storage needs to be digitized and secured by companies by October or they’ll be in breach of The Data Protection Act 1998.

Could this be coming to the United States.

The cost of off-site storage tape rotation services have lead many a CIO to consider keeping the work in-house. But as Pierre Dorion of SearchStorage.com writes, that may be a big mistake. Tapes require strict temperature and humidity control to protect the information on the tapes. In the end is it really worth saving a few dollars if you end up with a tape that no longer contains any data?

Iron Mountain has announced the acquisition of rival Archives One. Archives One, based in Middlebury, CT, boasts 8,500 customers. Financial terms of the deal were not released and should be completed in May.

The San Diego Source has reported that law offices are slowly shrinking their offices. One key factor is the law library moving from several rooms to online databases. Additionally, records storage has also moved to scanned documents stored in servers. These factors along with other efficiencies in law firms have allowed them to dramatically reduce their real estate costs.

Just another case of good records storage program doing more than just keeping old records organized.