Company to offer enterprises secure, compliant data center facilities
and services
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 30, 2013--
Iron Mountain® Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the storage and information
management company, today unveiled Iron
Mountain Data Centers™, a portfolio of services for organizations
seeking a secure and compliant data center environment. The company will
lease out space in its premier underground storage facility for
wholesale and retail colocation data centers, something it’s done
selectively over the last decade for enterprise and government clients.
Now the company formalizes the offering and introduces a suite of
services for data migration, networking, tape handling, asset
disposition and more so enterprises can outsource the complete
management of their data center. Iron Mountain is actively exploring
offering additional data center locations in key markets on existing
company-owned land.
“Most of today’s data center providers sell space. Iron Mountain Data
Centers offers more than just space. We’re packaging together services
that will enable enterprises to outsource the ongoing management of
their data center,” said Iron Mountain’s
Mark Kidd
, senior vice
president and general manager, data centers. “We want to make it easier
for enterprises to outsource. And our DNA in tracking information assets
from creation to disposition is particularly differentiating for
organizations that must comply with industry regulations. No one in
today’s data center market has our track record in security and
facilitating compliance.”
Iron Mountain’s solution gives customers two options for data center
space. Iron Mountain Wholesale Data Centers provides dedicated, secure
space for all or part of an organization’s data center operations and
offers a range of services, including engineering and design;
development and construction; and ongoing facility operations and
management. For organizations needing a smaller footprint, Iron
Mountain’s Retail Colocation solution provides a shared environment with
scalable power space and reliable power and cooling.
Iron Mountain’s underground data center in Boyers, Pa. is ideal for
enterprises and government clients seeking an ultra-secure environment.
The former limestone mine is 220 feet below ground, with ambient
temperatures in the mid-50s, efficient geothermal cooling and natural
protection from extreme weather events. To view photos of Iron
Mountain’s underground site, visit: www.ironmountain.com/underground.
Several government and enterprise clients like lodging company Marriott
International have long leased space in the Iron Mountain underground.
In 2008, Marriott leased 12,500 square feet of space to establish a data
center there for disaster recovery purposes. The company sought to
reduce its recovery time for business critical systems and determined
the unique setting of Iron Mountain’s underground was part of the
solution.
“We have always had a rigorous and constant focus on having disaster
preparedness in place,” declared
Dan Blanchard
, vice president of
enterprise operations at Marriott. “More than five years ago, we
determined that we needed more flexibility and we got it. Today we have
a data center that provides Marriott with a tremendous capability for
disaster recovery, and we have a great partner in Iron Mountain.”
More than offering secure space, Iron Mountain seeks to win over
enterprises still weighing outsourcing by offering a flat rate for
bundled services normally done by multiple vendors. Iron Mountain’s
suite of data center services includes:
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Migration Services: Iron Mountain helps customers move servers
and racking from one data center to another, providing extensive site
surveys, business impact reports, migration plan documentation, risk
assessment and comprehensive migration.
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Installation and “Smart” Remote Hands: Iron Mountain’s team of
infrastructure professionals provide installation and on-going
technical support services – from cable management and server/storage
deployments to reboots and hard drive replacements.
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Secure Network Services: Customers have numerous options for
transmitting data between Iron Mountain data centers and assistance
ordering carrier services via on-demand network services like Internet
bandwidth and secure IP transport.
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Offsite Tape Vaulting: Iron Mountain provides tape storage
services both at the hosted data center and at Iron Mountain's more
than 60 tape vaulting locations throughout the United States. This
allows customers to preserve media for disaster recovery or long-term
retention using a rigorous chain-of-custody and audit trail during
transport and storage.
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Secure IT Asset Disposition: This offering helps
organizations safely recycle or repurpose decommissioned data center
assets like servers, racks, storage systems and networking components.
“The days of evaluating data center providers based primarily on space
are long behind us,” said
Michelle Bailey
, vice president of data center
initiatives and digital infrastructure, 451 Research. “As organizations
increasingly incorporate leased capacity as part of their data center
portfolio, services for disaster recovery, security and compliance are
essential to satisfy business requirements. This is particularly true
for highly regulated vertical markets such as financial services,
government and healthcare.”
Iron Mountain will exhibit in booth #635 at the Data Center World 2013
conference this week in Las Vegas. To learn more about Iron Mountain
Data Centers, visit: www.ironmountain.com/datacenters.
About Iron Mountain Incorporated
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 around the world. 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 .
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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