BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Information Technology (IT) departments at colleges and universities are
tasked with supporting the needs of thousands of students and often
hundreds of departments, programs and services, making the school’s
disaster recovery and business continuity strategy a top priority to
ensure seamless service and network availability. Iron
Mountain® Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the storage and information
management company, announced it has signed a multi-year colocation
agreement with Suffolk University, a leading private institution located
in the heart of downtown Boston serving nearly 9,000 students.
Because both the production and disaster recovery data center
deployments were in one facility on campus, Suffolk University’s IT
organization decided to revisit their strategy early in 2014. They
needed an off-premise solution for disaster recovery and decided that
data center colocation was the best option. This solution provided
Suffolk University with geographical diversity in a purpose-built data
center with 24x7 operations and security to safeguard their
infrastructure.
“We’re proud to be local and industry leaders in terms of how we’re
approaching business continuity and disaster recovery. Too often, these
mission critical functions are put on the backburner, but we’ve never
been more aware of our need for IT strategies and resources to address
them,” said Tom Lynch, chief information officer, Suffolk University.
“After evaluating our situation, we knew we needed to rethink our
disaster recovery approach. It didn’t make sense to have production and
disaster recovery capabilities both located on our campus, and in Iron
Mountain, we found a trusted, remote colocation partner with deep
experience, which was important to our team.”
“Our data centers are designed to help organizations like Suffolk
University to implement a sound business continuity strategy with the
additional benefit of supporting networking services,” said Mark Kidd,
senior vice president and general manager, data centers, Iron Mountain.
“We look forward to supporting Suffolk University’s data center for
their disaster recovery purposes.”
Iron Mountain’s data center is Tier III- certified for both design and
construction and holds a LEED Gold certification, providing a resilient
and energy-efficient environment. True to Iron Mountain’s dedication to
security and compliance, the data center also helps organizations adhere
to stringent industry requirements on the storage and management of
information, especially in highly regulated industries such as
healthcare, finance and education. Complementing the secure and
compliant data center colocation, Iron Mountain provides our customers
with a suite of comprehensive services for the management of their data
center colocation, including total network services, tape handling,
infrastructure management, compliant IT asset tracking, disposition and
more.
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 Massachusetts and Missouri. For more information, visit www.ironmountain.com/datacenters.
About Suffolk University
Suffolk University, located in historic downtown Boston, with an
international campus in Madrid, is a student-centered institution
distinguished by excellence in education and scholarship. Suffolk
University offers a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs in
more than 90 areas of study. Its mission is to empower graduates to be
successful locally, regionally, and globally. Visit www.suffolk.edu
for more information.
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