Iron Mountain recently announced a service that lets businesses rapidly restore electronic data. The company's Data Restoration and Electronic Discovery Support service lets organizations gather, restore, search for, organize and deliver e-mail records required for litigation purposes. Iron Mountain recovers e-mail and electronic records from back-up tapes and other media. It then captures and indexes the records and loads them into the outsourced Digital Archive, where records can be organized for retrieval. A Web-based user interface is available for users to search, retrieve, view and organize assets. The service is priced on the number of tapes retrieved and starts at $200 per tape depending on how fast the data needs to be retrieved.

Sanctum last week announced AppScan 4.0, the latest version of its security-testing tool for analyzing Web and proprietary applications for possible security holes. AppScan 4.0, which adds support for testing for XML and Simple Object Access Protocol vulnerabilities, costs $15,000 and runs on Windows 2000 and XP servers.

IBM has rolled out three portal-based software packages aimed at creating online environments to streamline business and improve collaboration for specific vertical industries. IBM executives say they worked with business leaders to design the software packages that are geared for the automotive, government and life sciences markets. The software uses IBM's WebSphere Portal and Lotus software as the foundation for applications that are integrated to create industry-specific collaboration environments. The platforms, which IBM announced last week can work with multiple operating environments, including Linux and Windows, IBM says. Pricing for the packages vary because customers select the building blocks such as WebSphere Portal, which starts at $87,000, and WebSphere Commerce, which starts at $80,000.