Iron Mountain’s highly-secure western Pennsylvania data center
delivers compliance support, security, reliability, and Federal-ready
environment for NEC’s private cloud service
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Iron
Mountain Incorporated® (NYSE:IRM), the global leader in storage and
information management services, today announced NEC Corporation of
America, a leading technology integrator of advanced IT, communications
and networking solutions, has selected Iron Mountain’s highly-secure
underground western Pennsylvania data center (WPA-1) as the primary
colocation provider for its SAP HANA® private cloud and
operations service. NEC chose Iron Mountain’s location for its
comprehensive compliance support and security, federal-ready services,
energy efficiency, data center marketplace, and cloud services provider
neutrality.
SAP HANA is an in-memory platform designed to make the processing of
large data volumes faster and more efficient. NEC engineers delivered an
infrastructure as a service (IaaS) blueprint specifically designed to
address the resource-intensive needs of SAP HANA and provide a turnkey
service to enterprise clients and reseller partners. The selection of a
secure data center from Iron Mountain helped NEC achieve SAP-Certified
Provider status, attained only through SAP validation of service
management processes, security measures, facilities setup, operations
experience, and staff; in particular, WPA-1’s reliability was crucial in
architecting a solution that featured maximum availability of SAP HANA
mission-critical data.
“After an extensive search, we were confident in Iron Mountain’s ability
to serve as the data center foundation for our SAP HANA offering,” said
Taichiro Hashizawa, executive vice president, NEC Corporation of
America. “The audit process for SAP HANA certification is rigorous, and
Iron Mountain was instrumental in our success. The level of physical
site security, quality of service, customer support, and Iron Mountain’s
heritage in managing confidential data, allows NEC to position our SAP
Hosting solution as a new level of cloud service for SAP public sector
clients deploying SAP HANA.”
NEC’s public-sector integrator and reseller partners offering SAP HANA
services to federal agencies appreciate that a FISMA High framework,
large federal customer base, energy efficiency, and U.S. Department of
Homeland Security Level IV critical facility standards are all available
at WPA-1. NEC partners may also leverage Iron Mountain’s ISO 27001,
HIPAA, PCI-DSS Level 1, and SOC 2 Type II compliance support to address
specific end-user requirements.
“As a Federal Systems Integrator, we’re focused on delivering innovative
solutions for the public sector’s rapidly emerging cloud security and
technology standards,” said Jonathan Evans, president of Bart &
Associates, Inc. a systems integrator of information technology and
security solutions. “Bart & Associates implemented NEC’s SAP HANA
hosting solution, for our internal SAP instance, which has proven to be
very scalable and highly reliable, making it an offering that is a
perfect fit for our Federal clients.”
Located more than 200 feet below the earth, Iron Mountain’s underground
data center is part of a 200-acre campus in the rolling hills of western
Pennsylvania that includes the full breadth of the company’s services.
Iron Mountain’s data center offers predictable, long-term scalability
with 1.8 million square feet of developed space, and consumption-based
power pricing models. As public and private sector organizations face
increasing privacy, security and environmental regulations for their
data center needs, Iron Mountain’s data center services and western
Pennsylvania location – with its stable, highly-secure environment and
natural cooling and energy efficiency advantages – are in high demand as
the ideal option for hosting critical IT infrastructure and applications.
“Iron Mountain is excited to welcome NEC’s SAP-Certified HANA cloud
services offering to our Western Pennsylvania data center ecosystem,”
said Mark Kidd, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Iron
Mountain. “Our ‘Underground’ is the ideal place to grow this innovative
offering and we look forward to supporting the NEC team as they continue
to expand this offering.”
About NEC Corporation of America
NEC Corporation of America
(NEC) is a leading technology integrator providing solutions that
improve the way people work and communicate. NEC delivers integrated
Solutions for Society that are aligned with our customers' priorities to
create new value for people, businesses and society, with a special
focus on safety, security and efficiency. We deliver one of the
industry's strongest and most innovative portfolios of communications,
analytics, security, biometrics and technology solutions that unleash
customers' productivity potential. Through these solutions, NEC combines
its best-in-class solutions and technology, and leverages a robust
partner ecosystem to solve today’s most complex business problems. NEC
Corporation of America is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation,
a global technology leader with a presence in 140 countries and $29.5
billion in revenues. For more information, please visit www.necam.com.
About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM)
is the global leader for storage and information management services.
Trusted by more than 220,000 organizations around the world, Iron
Mountain boasts a real estate network of more than 80 million square
feet across more than 1,350 facilities in 45 countries dedicated to
protecting and preserving what matters most for its customers. Iron
Mountain’s solutions portfolio includes records
management, data
management, document
management, data
centers, art
storage and logistics, and secure
shredding, helping 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 critical business documents, electronic
information, medical data and cultural and historical artifacts. Visit www.ironmountain.com for
more information.
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