Data Securities International, DSI was a technology escrow administration company based in
San Francisco, California
San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...
. Founded in 1982, the company
escrows source code and other maintenance materials for licensees and stakeholders. The company was acquired by
Iron Mountain Incorporated
Iron Mountain Inc. () is an American enterprise information management services company founded in 1951 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Its records management, information destruction, and data backup and recovery services are suppl ...
in 1997. In 2021 Iron Mountain sold DSI (now IPM within IRM) for 220 million (see NASDAQ).
Dwight C. Olson was the founder of Data Securities International.
DSI History
Data Securities International was founded in 1982. The company grew steadily over the years before being sold to
Iron Mountain in 1997.
Data Securities International introduced the concept in the mid 1980s for a Total Software Value (TSV) that uses the composites of Ownership Value (OV) or the software inventory, Market Value (MV), and Internal Cost Savings (ICS) as values and influencing variables of software as a financial asset. A TSV software inventory valuation (OV) analysis looks at the sum total (or bundle) of the various software components or intellectual assets that make software usable as a product.
Total Software Value is explained in the book "The Long Journey to Software Valuation" see and Copyright Registration: TXu 2-181-571
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1997 mergers and acquisitions
Companies based in San Francisco
Computer companies established in 1982
Computer companies disestablished in 1997
Defunct computer companies of the United States