Accelerating the transformation from physical to digital

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Digitize, access, and scale with Iron Mountain InSight DXP

Iron Mountain Scan and Store solution brief

Business challenge

As organizations accelerate their AI initiatives, a major roadblock remains: critical data is still locked in physical assets and legacy archives. Traditional document digitization projects often burden internal teams with complex file delivery methods, strict download windows, and heavy IT overhead.

When vital data remains trapped in paper formats or isolated digital transfers, decentralized and hybrid teams lose the seamless access required to stay productive. Digitizing physical assets is no longer just an operational task—it is the essential first step to unlocking enterprise AI, streamlining workflows, and reducing physical storage costs.

From challenge to opportunity

What if you could?

  • Boost productivity through secure, cloud-based access to easily find and share content?
  • Simplify solution procurement by leveraging your existing cloud commitments?
  • Lay an extensible foundation to scale into advanced AI, enterprise search, and policy- driven information governance?

Connect your physical past to your digital future

Iron Mountain transforms your physical records into secure, searchable digital information. We go beyond simple scanning. Your digitized documents are delivered directly to Iron Mountain InSight® DXP, our cloud-agnostic intelligent content platform. Hosted across major hyperscaler cloud environments (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure), InSight DXP simplifies deployment and speeds time to access.

By improving visibility and security, reducing manual processes, and streamlining document retrieval, InSight DXP enhances operational resilience—all while providing flexibility as your digital needs mature.

You’ll be able to:

  • Quickly search and find information: We transition your physical assets into a fully indexed digital format using a secure chain of custody. Files are delivered to a secure repository for direct access, or to our platform, InSight DXP. When you choose InSight DXP, you gain the ability to track your scanning project in real time and perform quality checks as soon as files are digitized. The platform’s intuitive document viewer empowers hybrid and remote teams to seamlessly search, view, and securely download data from their location.
  • Accelerate procurement via cloud commits: Deploy rapidly by purchasing InSight DXP directly through major cloud marketplaces (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure). Our cloud-agnostic platform streamlines integration into your existing infrastructure and lets you draw down existing corporate cloud committed spend, often simplifying procurement cycles and eliminating the need for new purchase orders.
  • Prepare for a scalable future: InSight DXP adapts to your evolving business needs, providing a low-cost, secure alternative to SFTPs for storing your image archives. The platform allows you to easily expand digital storage, onboard new users, and unlock advanced capabilities— such as robust governance, enterprise content management, and AI-driven automation.

The Iron Mountain advantage

Iron Mountain scanning experts bring the experience, proven processes, and global infrastructure required to scan and index your critical data across paper, legacy media, X-rays, and other specialized physical formats. As an established information management leader processing more than 3 billion images annually across 141 global imaging sites, we help manage your transition to a digital future so your organization can focus on its core business.

InSight DXP’s architecture is built on a foundation of trust. Your data is protected by the same security rigor that earns us the trust of ~95% of the Fortune 1000. Iron Mountain’s security approach is comprehensive, safeguarding your information from ingestion to processing. We follow the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) to protect your information throughout its lifecycle.

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