Iron Mountain Unveils Cloud based Storage Solution

Iron Mountain Unveils Cloud-based Storage Solution

By Doug Caverly
Staff Writer
Article Date: 2009-02-24

Companies that maintain rooms full of expensive machines storing data they rarely access have a new option. Iron Mountain Digital has introducedVirtual File Store to act as a secure, long-term, and offsite solution.

John Clancy, the president of Iron Mountain Digital, explained in a statement, "Given that 50 to 60 percent of corporate data is inactive, storing all that data in-house is not a sustainable storage strategy for companies today that are faced with soaring storage costs and shrinking IT budgets." So in step the cloud and the Virtual File Store service.

Upfront costs are minimal, since businesses don't need to buy anything. Indeed, after a company unplugs its old equipment, its electricity bills should drop, and selling the equipment could even bring in a small amount of money.

All of the maintenance and upgrade costs are then Iron Mountain's problem, of course. And since Iron Mountain's been around since 1951, it may represents one of the most stable bets out there; a recession means less to a company with over 120,000 corporate clients worldwide.

Two more key facts: "Virtual File Store can be integrated with a company's existing storage infrastructure to migrate inactive files over the VPN network to Iron Mountain's secure, redundant data centers. Authorized users and applications can then retrieve files on-demand via a secure Internet connection from anywhere at anytime within the corporate environment."

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