BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Driven by the expansion of electronic records and regulatory pressures
including Meaningful Use, ICD-10 and Accountable Care, the volume of
data produced by the healthcare industry continues to grow, and
healthcare organizations need cost-effective ways to manage that data. Iron
Mountain® Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the storage and information
management company, announced it has signed a multi-year data center
colocation agreement with Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, an
acute care teaching hospital affiliated with the Mount Sinai School of
Medicine in Englewood, New Jersey. Englewood Hospital will lease data
center space within Iron Mountain’s underground data center located near
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
With the addition of Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology, a new
picture archiving and communication system (PACS), and a Vendor Neutral
Archive, Englewood Hospital’s IT leadership recognized that the
exploding data growth and resulting power density requirements created
capacity challenges in the hospital’s existing internal data center.
Furthermore, the hospital wanted to ensure that they were prepared and
could recover quickly if struck by a disaster. In order to address
capacity constraints and faster Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs), the
hospital’s IT leadership decided to partner with Iron Mountain for a
second data center location.
Englewood Hospital was already familiar with Iron Mountain as an
existing customer of data management services, including cloud-based
storage and offsite tape vaulting, and was confident that the same
secure and compliant processes would extend into the data center service
offering. Iron Mountain’s underground data center’s superior physical
security, reliability and resiliency were also key considerations for
Englewood Hospital during the selection process.
“Shortly after our PACS implementation, we realized our onsite data
center would soon be over capacity. From a capital expense perspective,
colocation was the right approach versus building our own data center.
But we could not compromise security or compliance. We sought an offsite
data center provider that could meet our stringent compliance and
disaster recovery requirements,” said Ronald J. Fuschillo, chief
information officer, Englewood Hospital and Medical Center. “For the
past three years, we have trusted Iron Mountain with our cloud storage
and offsite tape vaulting needs so adding their data centers operations
seemed to be a natural fit.”
Englewood Hospital’s IT team has created an additional disaster recovery
site by using Iron Mountain’s colocation facility to deploy an Active /
Active solution and improve the hospital’s everyday performance while
reducing inefficiencies. The solution eliminates bandwidth contention by
providing hospital staff access to applications at the hospital’s onsite
data center and remote clinics access to the second data center site at
the Iron Mountain colocation facility. Additionally, the system allows
for failover if one site becomes inoperable due to a disaster. Englewood
Hospital is also leveraging Iron Mountain’s Total Network Services for a
high-quality, low-cost connectivity solution and improving efficiencies
to its data center.
“Our data centers are designed to help organizations in highly regulated
environments, like Englewood Hospital,” said Mark Kidd, senior vice
president and general manager, data centers, Iron Mountain. “From
employee training to the infrastructure of our buildings, we take a
stringent approach to complying with industry-specific regulations such
as HIPAA, PCI, and FISMA. Our operational expertise in managing
information assets from creation to destruction also differentiates us
for our customers. Iron Mountain has valued its relationship with
Englewood through the years supporting their storage and information
management needs. We’re thrilled to now extend that relationship to the
data center.”
About Iron Mountain’s Data Center Solutions
For more than a
decade, enterprise organizations have trusted Iron Mountain to develop
and manage their data center environments with a portfolio of
ultra-secure facilities and compliant services. Iron Mountain’s carrier
and service provider neutral facilities offer both retail colocation and
wholesale data center leasing options. This solution leverages Iron
Mountain’s 63-year heritage of protecting information, helping
organizations bring the same high levels of security and compliance to
their data center environments. The company’s national data center is
located within a unique, 145-acre underground location outside
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with additional data centers in Boston,
Massachusetts and Kansas City, Missouri. For more information, visit www.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 67 million square feet across
more than 1,000 facilities in 36 countries allows it to serve customers
with speed and accuracy. And its solutions for records
management, data
management, 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