New Offering Allows for Easy, Fast Data Retrieval and Near-Infinite
Scalability to Address Challenges of Increasing Data
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Iron
Mountain Incorporated® (NYSE:IRM), the storage and information
management company, today announced its new Iron Mountain Cloud Archive
offering, a cost-effective, scalable repository for organizations
needing to protect and preserve data retained short or long term for
compliance, legal or value-creation purposes. Designed to scale as the
volume of data grows, the solution is ideal for organizations needing
offsite, pay-as-you-use archival storage with near-infinite scalability,
where customer data remains secure, intact and easily accessible over
the long term at Iron Mountain’s Underground Facility in Boyers,
Pennsylvania.
For many organizations, skyrocketing data volumes make long-term digital
asset management a major challenge they must address to preserve,
protect and manage valuable intellectual property, operational
knowledge, process documentation and other digital assets.
Ever-expanding regulations and increasing data retention requirements
further exacerbate this challenge. And storage area networks and
network-attached storage can’t scale cost-effectively.
“As organizations continue their investigation and adoption of
cloud-services as part of modernizing their IT strategy, data protection
is often cited as one scenario to be cloud-enabled,” says Jason
Buffington, Principal Analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group. “For
many, the primary objection to cloud-services is security-related, so it
is exciting to see Iron Mountain, whose brand to many is synonymous with
‘trust’ and ‘data custodianship,’ offering this service. Particularly
for customers who already appreciate a trusted partnership with Iron
Mountain’s tape services, but also for those who are hesitant but
interested in adding a secure cloud to their data preservation plan, the
Iron Mountain service may be well worth considering.”
Unlike on-premise disk and tape infrastructures, Iron Mountain Cloud
Archive doesn’t require customer-owned storage equipment or archiving
platforms, and it eliminates resources to manage tape- and disk-refresh
life cycles, while avoiding the cost and hassle of a technology
migration from one generation of tape or disk to another. Based on EMC®
Elastic Cloud StorageTM (ECS) a global multi-purpose platform
technology from EMC, this offering also delivers cost-efficient, rapid
and anytime-anywhere access with meaningful enterprise-class
service-level agreements (SLAs).
“Building on our legacy as a trusted and proven service provider, the
introduction of the Iron Mountain Cloud Archive solution rounds out the
Iron Mountain Cloud portfolio of services with best-in-class technology
designed to fit and scale with any IT infrastructure,” said Eileen
Sweeney, Senior Vice President, Data Management, Iron Mountain. “We’re
now fully equipped to offer holistic, end-to-end information management,
ensuring past, present and future data protection, disaster recovery and
data preservation with unmatched physical and logical security at an
affordable price.”
Data movement to and from Iron Mountain Cloud Archive is easy with an
open and flexible platform-built using ECS technology that works with S3
API,OpenStack SWIFT, CAS, Atmos and cloud gateways like EMC® CloudBoostTM,
CloudArray® and Isilon® Cloud Pools technologies, or Nasuni, Panzura,
Seven10 and CTERA.
Iron Mountain will exhibit at the 2016 EMC World Conference (Booth #238)
at The Venetian in Las Vegas, Nevada. For more information on the new
Iron Mountain Cloud Archive offering, please visit www.ironmountain.com/cloudarchive
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 more than 69 million square feet
across more than 1,100 facilities in 37 countries allows it to serve
customers around the world. 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.
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.
EMC, CloudBoost, CloudArray and Isilon are registered trademarks or
trademarks of EMC Corporation in the United States and other countries.
All other trademarks used herein are the property of their respective
owners.
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