Cloud Archive Solution by Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain Inc. announced its 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.

Iron Mountain’s underground facility in Boyers, PA

Designed to scale as the volume of data grows, the solution is for organizations needing offsite, pay-as-you-use archival storage with near-infinite scalability, where customer data remains secure, intact and accessible over the long term at company’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 SAN and NAS 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, 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, firm’s 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 Corp.‘s Elastic cloud Storage (ECS) a multi-purpose platform technology from EMC, this offering also delivers cost-efficient, rapid and anytime-anywhere access with meaningful enterprise SLAs.

Iron Mountain’s underground facility in Boyers, PA

“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, SVP, data management, Iron Mountain. “We’re now fully equipped to offer holistic, end-to-end information management, ensuring past, present and future data protection, DR and data preservation with unmatched physical and logical security at an affordable price.“

Data movement to and from company’s 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’s CloudBoost, CloudArray and Isilon Cloud Pools technologies, or Nasuni Corp., Panzura, Inc., Seven10 Storage Software, LLC and Ctera Networks, Ltd.