As you walk down the hallways of the exhibition hall at ARMA 2010, you will notice that tucked in among the high technology solutions from power house vendors like IBM (NYSE: IBM), EMC, Iron Mountain and Autonomy, you'll find companies that specialize in paper storage.

One such vendor is The Box Company, a Wheatley Heights, NY-based corrugated cardboard manufacturer that has developed a simple storage box. No folding is required. It's pre-built so that you just pull it and you have a constructed box ready to store your paper files. Put the files length wise and it fits standard files, width wise and it fits legal documents.

And once those boxes get filled with records, they have to be stored somewhere and another company at ARMA, Under Ground Vaults and Storage, provides secure storage 650 feet underground in a salt mine in Hutchinson, Kan. The company which began in 1959 at the height of cold war, provides climate controlled, completely secure storage. It currently boasts 50 acres of file storage and clients range from oil and gas companies to Hollywood movie studios storing archived movie prints.

There is even a professional association called Prism, whose sole purpose is the physical file storage business. Prism International hosts conferences and training around building and understanding the records-storage business.

In a world that seems to be dominated by electronic records and enterprise content management concepts, it's important to remember that a large part of the world's business is still conducted on paper, and there are many vendors to help deal with that.

For more information:
- see My Box Company
- see Under Ground Vaults and Storage
- see Prism International

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