Company Provides Developers with the Tools and Support to Integrate
with its Secure, Enterprise-Class Cloud Storage
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 14, 2009--
Iron
Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the global leader in information
protection and storage services, today announced that it is extending
its industry-leading Archive Services Platform to application providers,
including corporate developers and independent software vendors (ISVs),
so that they may offer cloud storage with their applications. Through
the new Iron
Mountain Developer Program, the Company will offer developers the
tools and resources necessary to integrate Iron Mountain’s secure
enterprise-class cloud archiving services.
Developers can now leverage the security and scalability of Iron
Mountain’s Storage-as-a-Service model to allow their users to reduce the
risk, cost and complexity of managing their digital information. This is
the first time the Company has extended its enterprise archiving
platform to outside application developers, and beyond its own backup
and archive solutions.
The Developer Program offers application developers seamless integration
with Iron Mountain’s Archive Services Platform through an application
programming interface (API) that provides secure, off-site long-term
data storage for data-intensive applications, as well as advanced
indexing, search and retrieval capabilities and retention and
destruction functionality.
“The cloud is bursting with companies eager to deliver storage services
to business customers. Success will require a lot more than a simple API
and a bucket of storage on the remote end of a wire,” said
Jeff Boles
,
senior analyst and director of validation services for the Taneja Group.
“With this in mind, Iron Mountain realizes they have a distinct
advantage when it comes to serving up storage in the cloud, and we see
them steadily marching forward in weaving all of their digital
information management and service capabilities together into a rich
service that is well aligned to the needs of the business.”
Upon joining Iron Mountain’s Developer Program, application providers
can take advantage of the Company’s Archive Services Platform API to
meet end users’ challenges when it comes to storing and protecting the
large amounts of data generated by their applications. Key features of
the Archive Services Platform include:
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SOAP and REST Web services interfaces that allow for easy integration
with data-intensive applications
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Standard NFS and CIFS interfaces in addition to the API
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Easy-to-use indexing, search, and retrieval capabilities, with
optional retention and destruction functionality
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Scalability to petabyte volumes to meet changing archiving demands
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Best-in-class service and support
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Secure, reliable cloud storage from the trusted leader in enterprise
Storage-as-a-Service solutions
Applications providers, including Rescentris and ZL Technologies, are
already taking advantage of Iron Mountain’s Developer Program.
“In the electronic lab notebook systems and scientific content
management arena, secure data archiving is critical due to the
highly-regulated nature of life sciences,” said
Jeff Spitzner
, Ph.D.,
president and chief science officer for Rescentris. “For the long-term
records preservation our industry demands, Iron Mountain was the obvious
partner. We turned to Iron Mountain to enhance our solutions with
trusted archiving services that provide the security, compliance, and
access to information that our customers require.”
“As a trusted provider of email and file archiving for large
enterprises, ZL requires dependable and scalable archiving storage
services. Iron Mountain provides exactly that, with a heavy emphasis on
enterprise security,” said
Kon Leong
, president and chief executive
officer of ZL Technologies. “The combination of Iron Mountain’s
reliability with ZL’s unified archiving, search and retrieval
capabilities ensures that large enterprise customers can immediately
access all relevant business information across the entire enterprise,
whenever they need it.”
“In an increasingly digital world, everyone is challenged with properly
storing, protecting and managing the information they input into
applications. With the launch of our Developer Program, application
providers can extend the same security and reliability that Iron
Mountain provides to its enterprise customers to their own end users,
giving them ultimate trust in their solution,” said
John Clancy
,
president, Iron Mountain Digital. “Not only will members of the program
receive tools and support to integrate our Archive Services Platform
with their applications via the API, but they will also be able to offer
their customers tremendous incremental value in new information
management functionality.”
As part of the introduction of its Developer Program, Iron Mountain has
also launched the Developer Network, an online community that provides
application providers with the tools, information, online support and
forums necessary to successfully integrate with Iron Mountain’s Archive
Services Platform. For more information about the Developer Network, as
well as Iron Mountain’s Archive Services Platform API and the Developer
Program, visit http://developer.ironmountain.com.
About Iron Mountain Digital
Iron Mountain Digital is the world's leading provider of software- and
storage-as-a service solutions for backup and archiving. The technology
arm of Iron Mountain Incorporated offers a comprehensive suite of data
protection, archiving and intellectual property management solutions to
thousands of companies around the world, directly and through a
worldwide network of channel partners. Iron Mountain Digital is based in
Southborough, Mass. with European headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany.
About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE:IRM) helps organizations around the
world reduce the costs and risks associated with information protection
and storage. The Company offers comprehensive records management and
data protection solutions, along with the expertise and experience to
address complex information challenges such as rising storage costs,
litigation, regulatory compliance and disaster recovery. Founded in
1951, Iron Mountain is a trusted partner to more than 140,000 corporate
clients throughout North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia
Pacific. For more information, visit the Company's Web site at www.ironmountain.com.
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