Exterior view of large data vault

Recent events have caused architects, risk managers and executive management to pay closer attention to providing high-integrity protection for vital records. In the past, designers or those intent on cutting costs have chosen four hour rated wall assemblies which were never intended for vault design. Things like walls of multiple layers of gypsum board or steel partitions, which do not carry certification for media vault protection and are not structural in a catastrophic fire, expose management to claims of negligence.

Due to the density and efficiency of our modern information media, new, relatively small vaults are able to store virtually billions of documents.

These vaults are designed to protect the fragile, sensitive media generated by new information technologies

Interior view of large data vault

Todays vital corporate information is stored on digital or magnetic media. While these formats make archiving the density of information tremendously more efficient and compact, they are extremely fragile. They require precise levels of environmental control when stored. In fact, when exposed to extreme heat, those same concrete vaults that once protected paper files will create steam, destroying any magnetic or digital data.

The new fireproof data vault system are specifically designed to protect new digital and magnetic media by securing the vault chamber environment and preventing excessive temperatures from jeopardizing the integrity of the media being stored

Because of the controlled working environment present in the data vaults the system also offers the function of office space where equipment and their operators can work.