Iron Mountain Canada Expanding Iron Cloud Portfolio

Iron Mountain, Inc. announced its Iron Cloud Object Storage in Canada.

Iron Cloud is a secure cloud-based storage platform for enterprise data management that delivers confidence in the integrity, availability and protection of digital assets, enabling organizations to mitigate risk, increase operational efficiency and drive value from secondary data. Iron Cloud Object Storage extends customer backup and archive environments to the cloud with geo-resilient, scalable cloud storage without any additional fees for data access or egress, enabling more predictable costs for data management.

With digital transformation at the forefront of IT strategy, companies are increasingly faced with data growth and the challenges of storing, managing, securing and deriving value from that data. In order to address these challenges, organizations are increasingly relying on hybrid IT environments, leveraging multiple cloud services and infrastructure to address a range of complex data management requirements.

As a cloud storage platform for data management, Iron Cloud solves for ‘where’ to store data and also for the demanding challenges of protecting, preserving and accessing digital assets to address business and compliance requirements. The Iron Cloud family of products and services is a fit for hybrid, multi-tier storage environments, adding business value by driving cloud and storage costs down, and optimizing data security, accessibility and performance. With the availability of Iron Cloud Object Storage solutions in Canada, Iron Mountain delivers a portfolio of data management services, which also includes Iron Cloud Server Backup, Iron Cloud DR, offsite tape vaulting, data restoration and migration services and secure IT asset disposition services.

“Canadian businesses are facing unprecedented data growth and IT complexity in today’s digital economy,” said Brian Rosen, SVP and GM, Iron Mountain Canada. “Building on our reputation as a trusted and proven service provider in data management, we provide our customers with cloud-based solutions to optimize their IT infrastructure, creating cost savings and efficiencies. Paired with Iron Mountain’s information management services, we believe Iron Cloud offers a unique opportunity to support customers’ IT modernization and long-term retention challenges as they evolve their data protection and data privacy with cloud-forward strategies.“

Iron Cloud Object Storage enables backup and archive within a secure, resilient cloud storage environment.

The solution provides: 

• Secure data protection: Data protection, directly built into the Iron Cloud platform featuring zero-trust network architectures, geo-resiliency and data encryption – both in transit and at rest – and a secure chain of custody to ensure the highest standard of protection and compliance of secondary data and long-term retention assets.
• Predictable cost: Iron Cloud’s simple pricing model features built-in geo-replication right out of the box. It does not charge additional fees for data access, egress, ingress or support requests, saving customers thousands of dollars annually.
• Flexible storage options: The company delivers a solutions portfolio to assist its customers to modernize their IT environments from tape to cloud, driving both IT and business efficiencies. By leveraging its data restoration and migration services with Iron Cloud, customers are able to get on-demand access to data from both tape and cloud, helping customers eliminate the burden and costs associated with long-term data retention and management.