New Tier III, LEED Gold certified facility will serve highly
regulated businesses
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 24, 2013--Iron Mountain® Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the storage and information
management company, has begun construction on its first regional data
center in Northborough, Mass. The news comes just five months after the
company’s entry into the multi-tenant data center market, when it began
leasing wholesale and retail colocation data center space in its premier
underground facility in western Pennsylvania.
Set to open its doors in early 2014, Iron Mountain’s Boston Data Center
will feature a Tier III-certified design and construction and offer the
region’s only LEED Gold certified facility -- providing a resilient and
energy-efficient environment. The new data center will add to an
existing campus of records storage centers the company maintains in
Northborough, a central location for businesses in Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, eastern Connecticut, southern New Hampshire and Maine.
The company expects highly regulated organizations will find the site an
attractive option for meeting stringent industry requirements on the
storage and management of information. Complementing the secure data
center facility, Iron Mountain will offer comprehensive services for the
careful management of data assets, including migration, networking, tape
handling, IT asset tracking, disposition and more.
“Home to many highly-regulated organizations, the greater Boston area is
underserved in terms of access to area data centers capable of meeting
their unique needs,” said
Mark Kidd
, Iron Mountain senior vice president
and general manager, data centers. “With security and compliance at the
core of Iron Mountain’s operations, those highly-regulated industries
like healthcare, biotech and financial services can now choose a
better-suited option for their data center operations.”
Kelly Morgan
, a research manager for 451 Research, speaks to the market
need: “We believe that new data center facilities meeting HIPAA and
PCI-DSS requirements as well as achieving Uptime Institute certification
for Tier III design and construction will see strong demand. In addition
to offering a level of security and compliance expertise that other
colocation providers will find hard to match, Iron Mountain has created
a data center co-location facility that is within a drivable distance
for many of the Northeast region’s healthcare and financial services
companies. This provides an added level of comfort as they evaluate
their options for outsourcing data center operations.”
Iron Mountain will work with Compass Datacenters to design and build
Iron Mountain’s Boston Data Center, consisting of three data halls. Each
data hall provides:
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10,000 square feet of space with a three-foot-high raised floor to
provide flexible layout and design
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Support for 1.2 MW of critical IT load and cool densities up to 20 kW
per rack without containment
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“2N” Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS) architecture, multiple 2 MW
generators and N+1 mechanical system to deliver the enhanced
reliability of a concurrently maintainable Tier III certified design
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Miami-Dade County standards, built to withstand winds up to 149 mph
and meet a 1.5 seismic rating
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Redundant fiber entrance facilities to offer no single point of
failure for network services
“Compass Datacenters’ innovative designs and construction methodology
enables us to build natural disaster-resistant, dedicated data centers
quickly and with great precision,” said
Chris Crosby
, CEO of Compass
Datacenters. “With more than 20 years of experience, our team can design
and build Iron Mountain’s Boston Data Center so it can be fully
operational within six months.”
Kidd concurred, adding: “Known as one of the most experienced teams for
data center design and builds, Compass Datacenters also provides Iron
Mountain with a capital efficient approach to developing a data center
footprint.”
On Apr. 30 of this year, Iron Mountain announced its entry into the multi-tenant
data center market, making available wholesale data center and
retail colocation options within the company’s western Pennsylvania
Underground. Iron Mountain also announced its intent to explore
additional locations for regional data centers.
To learn more, visit ironmountain.com/datacenters
About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) is a leading provider of storage
and information management services. The company’s real estate network
of over 64 million square feet across more than 1,000 facilities in 35
countries allows it to serve customers with speed and accuracy. And its
solutions for records
management, data
backup and recovery, document
management, and secure
shredding help organizations to lower storage costs, comply with
regulations, recover from disaster, and better use their information for
business advantage. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain stores and protects
billions of information assets, including business documents, backup
tapes, electronic files and medical data. Visit www.ironmountain.com
for more information.
Source: Iron Mountain Incorporated
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