BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
For regulated industries, managing carrier relationships and
provisioning network services between data center locations is
complicated, time consuming and can tax scarce internal resources. To
address these challenges, Iron Mountain has expanded its portfolio of
data center services with Total
Network Services, providing high-quality, low-cost connectivity to
enterprise Data Center customers. The new service makes it easier for
customers to buy network services and manage carrier relationships,
resulting in increased efficiencies and reduced costs.
With the new, carrier-neutral offering, Iron Mountain provides
business-critical network connectivity along with a comprehensive range
of network offerings. The Total Network Services offering equips
organizations with rich connectivity, custom provisioning services
between locations and carrier relationship management – services not
typically offered by data center providers.
Available now, the Total Network Services portfolio supports a variety
of managed services, including:
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10 gigabyte (G) and 1G protected Ethernet transport to carrier hotels
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Managed carrier services
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Internet services, including high-speed 10G connectivity via border
gateway protocol (BGP) multi-homing
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End-to-end connectivity for national and international Ethernet
transport between data centers
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Encryption services utilizing customer-held private keys
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Dark fiber connectivity between in-metro customer and data center sites
Advanced Network Technology
“Iron Mountain’s Total Network Services offering leverages carrier-grade
technology like optical transport and software-defined networking to
solve the headaches commonly associated with data center management and
ensure our customers don’t overprovision or overpay,” said Dan Golding,
vice president, operations, Iron Mountain. “With our latest data center
solution, enterprise customers can provision their network with the
bandwidth needed to support current and emerging business demands.”
Iron Mountain has deployed leading edge software-defined networking
(SDN) technology to overcome the technical limitations associated with
legacy fiber cross connects, eliminating tangled messes of cables and
making the addition or movement of connections clean and easy. By
utilizing SDN, Iron Mountain allows multiple traffic types to be
distributed throughout the data center in a redundant fashion on a fiber
ring network. This approach helps organizations reduce hardware costs,
accelerate provisioning, protect against fiber cuts and easily transport
bandwidth on demand across the network.
Many enterprises operate more than one data center and need constant
connectivity between facilities or with headquarters. Iron Mountain’s
Total Network Services also feature optical transport technology, the
global standard for network communications protocol that improves
connectivity between facilities by leveraging a fiber-rich,
carrier-neutral and near limitless bandwidth pipeline. The service
ensures constant connectivity between multiple data center facilities.
Carrier Partnerships
Iron Mountain has a strong belief in network neutrality and its value to
Data Center customers. For that reason, Iron Mountain Data Centers have
a wide variety of network services available within its colocation
facilities and offered through a growing number of carrier partners.
Lumos Networks and Lightower Fiber Networks are two providers that offer
high-capacity, all-fiber network services.
“Our partnership with Iron Mountain offers organizations a more
responsive network experience over Lumos Networks’ expanding optical
bandwidth infrastructure in Western Pennsylvania. Iron Mountain’s Total
Network Services approach pushes the envelope on customer centricity in
data center services facilitated by a fiber-based network layer with
100Gbps and higher bandwidth potential,” said Craig Drinkhall, chief
technology officer, Lumos Networks. "IT departments now have the ability
to increase bandwidth in days versus weeks which is ideal for managing
fast-moving business conditions.”
“With this new service , customers will be able to access Iron
Mountain’s new data centers from anywhere in Lightower’s footprint of
more than 20,000 route miles of network throughout the Northeast and
Mid-Atlantic regions and metro Chicago area,” stated Rob Shanahan, CEO
of Lightower Fiber Networks. “Combining Iron Mountain’s new digital
solutions with Lightower’s dense, all-fiber network creates a powerful
solution for customers requiring mission critical data archival and
networking solutions.”
About Iron Mountain’s Data Center Solutions
In April 2013, 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. In March 2014, Iron Mountain launched its Data Center
Marketplace to connect enterprise IT buyers and cloud solution providers
to Iron Mountain’s secure colocation platform. Last month, the company
opened its first regional data center in Northborough, Massachusetts.
More information about Iron Mountain Data Center Total Network Services
is available at www.ironmountain.com/TotalNetworkServices
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