SimpliVity procures much-needed growth capacity for its
hyperconverged infrastructure development program
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Iron
Mountain Incorporated® (NYSE:IRM), the global
leader in storage and information management services, today announced
SimpliVity®, a leader in hyperconverged infrastructure
revolutionizing enterprise IT, has selected Iron Mountain’s
purpose-built Boston data center to host its engineering laboratory to
help meet rapidly growing demand for its solutions.
“Over the last year, hyperconverged infrastructure has become the
fastest-growing division in the IT infrastructure market. And,
SimpliVity’s adoption rate is accelerating even faster than the market,
putting the company in a continuous state of expansion to meet end-user
demand,” said Christian van den Branden, vice president of engineering
at SimpliVity. “As a result, the data center resources required to
support the SimpliVity engineering lab have grown significantly, making
colocation the right fit from a cost, capacity, efficiency, and security
perspective. Iron Mountain’s 65-year track record of protecting
proprietary assets gave us the necessary confidence to trust a third
party with the future of our business.”
SimpliVity’s development teams use the engineering lab to create and
test new products as well as upgrade and refine its existing offering,
including the OmniCube and OmniStack product lines. To accommodate a
strong product development pipeline, SimpliVity needed predictable data
center capacity over the short and long-term. The proprietary nature of
the assets mandated a colocation environment with multiple layers of
physical security and a resilient design for maximum availability of lab
resources. SimpliVity met these requirements by procuring a dedicated
cage at Iron Mountain’s Boston data center in Northborough, Mass.
“Hyperconverged infrastructure is an innovative technology that makes
organizations more operationally efficient while staying on budget, and
SimpliVity is a recognized leader in the space,” said Mark Kidd, senior
vice president and general manager of Iron Mountain Data Centers. “We
are pleased to welcome SimpliVity to the Iron Mountain data center
ecosystem and look forward to supporting the company’s engineering lab
and strategic business objectives.”
Iron Mountain’s Boston colocation facility is a purpose-built data
center located on a 54-acre, campus in the Metro West suburb of
Northborough, Mass. The facility serves enterprise and highly regulated
organizations that choose Iron Mountain Boston for its market-leading
energy efficiency, resilience, comprehensive compliance support, and
layered physical security. The large campus allows Iron Mountain to
deliver additional on-site data centers, to meet market demand and
provide customers with predictable long-term capacity that meets FISMA
High, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI-DSS 3.1, and SOC 2 Type standards.
About SimpliVity
Founded with a mission to simplify IT,
SimpliVity is a pioneer in the hyperconverged infrastructure market,
disrupting the status quo of complex and cumbersome legacy IT systems.
SimpliVity’s hyperconverged IT platform delivers enterprise-class
performance and availability that today’s IT leaders require, with the
cloud economics their business demands. No other company has taken on
the mega task of assimilating all IT elements below the hypervisor (8 to
12 disparate functions) into a simple 2U building block of x86 sharable
resources to deliver unmatched IT simplicity, operational efficiency,
and 3x TCO savings. The company’s unique data virtualization
architecture improves performance, protection and data efficiency, while
also enabling global unified management from a single console.
SimpliVity has revolutionized IT systems for hundreds of enterprises
around the world. Headquartered in Westborough, Mass., the company has
raised $276 million in venture capital and with over 750 employees
worldwide. SimpliVity’s business model is 100 percent indirect, and its
solutions and professional services are available worldwide through its
network of resellers and distributors. For more information, visit www.simplivity.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 85 million square
feet across more than 1,400 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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