Iron Mountain and InterVision Expand Partnership

Iron Mountain Incorporated has expanded its partnership with InterVision Systems to allow the Santa Clara, Calif. IT firm to offer users of NetApp and Microsoft Exchange Iron Mountain’s newly-acquired NearPoint solution for archiving, accessing and protecting email.

InterVision’s customers can now enjoy high performance, manageability and lower operating costs by combining leading technology from NetApp and Iron Mountain in a single integrated solution for managing Microsoft Exchange.

The Iron Mountain NearPoint archive leverages NetApp’s Snapshot technology as the source for archived data and the compliant archival of data capture for all Microsoft Exchange database transactions and events. This includes all email moves, message deletes, calendar items and contacts. In addition, the integration simplifies application data management by leveraging NetApp’s SnapManager for Microsoft Exchange, which automates the complex, manual, and time-consuming processes associated with the backup, recovery, and verification of Exchange Server databases while eliminating the need to implement Microsoft Exchange Journaling.

"InterVision is a leading solutions provider with deep domain expertise in the areas of storage, virtualization and messaging, and we look forward to our expanded partnership with them," said T.M. Ravi, chief marketing officer, Iron Mountain Digital. "The combination of their services and our enterprise-class archiving solutions gives companies using Microsoft Exchange and NetApp the complete solution they need to ensure they can retain, search, and recover email, while reducing the cost and risks of storage and management."

"Iron Mountain NearPoint is a natural addition to our other email archiving solutions because of its integration with NetApp storage systems," said Sean McGrath, director of systems and storage, InterVision. "More than 90 percent of our customers deploy virtualization technology to lower their storage costs. The Iron Mountain NearPoint solution is an ideal fit for these customers because it allows them to move primary Exchange data off of expensive tier-one storage systems into Iron Mountain’s integrated archive. This unified solution is a fit for InterVision as we help our customers address their business requirements in more efficient and cost-effective ways."

The Iron Mountain NearPoint solution also integrates with several other NetApp technologies, including NetApp SnapManager for SQL Server, SnapDrive, SnapMirror and FlexVol. The integration leverages NetApp’s cascading Snapshot technology for archived data protection, resulting in a combined solution that shrinks the storage footprint and makes it easier to deploy, faster to recover and more cost effective to manage.

"By combining NetApp storage solutions and the Iron Mountain NearPoint solution for email archiving, InterVision is helping to rein in management costs often associated with storing, retaining, retrieving and recovering Exchange data," said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Solutions and Alliances for NetApp. "InterVision customers will continue to see dramatic cost savings through the combination of NetApp and NearPoint."

Prior to Iron Mountain’s acquisition of Mimosa Systems in February, Mimosa and NetApp announced an expanded integration partnership in October 2009, which enabled the development of a comprehensive solution for integrated content archiving, storage management and data protection for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint environments. The Iron Mountain NearPoint solution was recently installed as the only email archiving solution at NetApp’s Sunnyvale, Calif. Executive Briefing Center.