Is Iron Mountain destroying the tapes or keeping them in secure storage?
What do you do that needs so much data backed up?
Financial. Iron Mountain is keeping them.
In theory at least, we have everything going back to the founding of the company in the 1990's. Let's just say that we're working on a retention policy more aimed at 5 years or whatnot. It's really not so much to do with the actual financial data, but a rather aggressive IT culture over redundancy, and best practices for continuation of service, disaster recover, business continuity planning etc.
My firm bends over backwards to be on the up and up and above reproach. However we do get roped into a discovery motion etc. now and then as an innocent bystander, and someone figures out we have 20+ years of data, and wants to use us as a patsy to bury someone else in data as an extrajudicial tactic...
and we actually farking have it... that could be a PITA.
I really kind of wish I had a few thousand acres and could be allowed to do the disposal when it finally comes.