Iron Mountain Adds Mac OS X Support to Connected

Iron Mountain Digital announced at the Macworld 2009 Conference & Expo in San Francisco that its Connected Backup solution will be available in March 2009 for Mac users. The Connected Backup solution provides businesses of all sizes with the ability to protect vital corporate data, regardless of computer platform, through secure and reliable online data recovery and unmatched scalability.

The Connected Backup solution with Mac support provides the same award-winning features as Connected Backup for PC, including fast, automatic backup without user interruption or IT intervention; an end to data loss from viruses, misplaced or stolen laptops, data corruption and user error; and finally, the solution gives IT control of secure backup and restoration both inside and beyond company firewalls. The solution also enables IT to centrally manage distributed data backup from Mac or PC laptops outside of the office. Customers on PC or Mac computers can retrieve lost or damaged files without help desk support with anytime/anywhere system rollback even when away from the office. The solution’s patented data reduction technologies reduce storage needs by up to 85 percent.

"The number of enterprise Mac users is on the rise and companies are in need of the same high-level data backup and protection available for PCs to protect vital corporate data," said Cieran Cosgrave, head of managed services, 2e2, an Iron Mountain Digital channel partner. "Iron Mountain Digital’s addition of Mac support allows us to offer our customers the highest level of security for their corporate data regardless of their computer platforms."

Additionally, Connected Backup solution with Mac support provides the following functions:

• Seamless Backup – Enables rapid, automatic and unintrusive backup of Mac or PC data, even over dial-up connections.
• Unbeatable Security – Data is encrypted at the desktop and is kept encrypted both during transmission and in storage; also, quickly repairs damaged or corrupted applications, configurations and files on any Mac; ‘rolling back’ a Mac quickly to a previously working state puts an end to user downtime without needing assistance from the help desk.
• Anytime, Anywhere Data Recovery – Data recovery can be managed with just a few mouse clicks and users have access to their data at anytime, using any PC/Mac with a working web browser, from any location through a secure Internet connection using the product’s MyROAM feature.
• Unmatched scalability and data reduction – Protect and restore data from as few as five to hundreds of thousands of Macs, using one centrally managed tool; and reduce storage requirements and costs through the product’s Delta Block technology that ensures only data changes and newly created files are backed up, and with SendOnce technology that ensures identical files located on multiple machines, including email attachments, are recognized and backed up only once.

"As a proven leader in enterprise storage-as-a-service, Iron Mountain Digital is proud to offer its customers a best-of-breed, fully-integrated data protection solution to support smart and cost-effective backup and recovery needs for a wide range of businesses," said John Clancy, president, Iron Mountain Digital. "The Connected Backup solution provides enterprises using Mac and/or PC computers with unmatched peace of mind as Iron Mountain Digital works behind the scenes to keep businesses on track and valuable data safe and secure."