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Iron Mountain Adds All-in-One, On-Premises Archive to Complement its Cloud Offerings; Company Now Capable of Managing Information Wherever it Resides
BOSTON (Feb. 22, 2010) – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), an information management services company, today announced it has acquired Santa Clara, Calif.-based Mimosa Systems, Inc., a leader in enterprise-class content archiving solutions, for approximately $112 million [...]
Demand Data, launches Snapstream an online server backup solution designed to eliminate the unreliable backup.
February 15, 2010 - Demand Data, one of South Africa’s fastest growing information technology companies, has launched an online server backup solution designed to eliminate the unreliability and tedium associated with conventional backup subsystems.
Dubbed SnapStream, the service provides both on-site and [...]
123Together.com Expands Its Suite of Hosted Business Services with the Addition of Desktop Data Backup
Web-Based Automatic Desktop Backup, On-Demand File Recovery Ensures Data Protection, Provides Peace of Mind to Small Businesses at a Cost Effective Price
BURLINGTON, Mass., Feb. 10, 2010 — /PRNewswire/ — 123Together.com - a mindSHIFT Technologies company and the leading provider of hosted email [...]
Free Download Now in Beta
NATICK, Mass., Feb. 9, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Nasuni™ today unveiled its gateway to cloud storage, the Nasuni Filer. This is a virtual NAS file server that runs on VMware and leverages the resources of the cloud to simplify file storage and protection. Targeting the mid-market, Nasuni’s solution eliminates the need for [...]
Iron Mountain to discuss report findings in webcast on Data Privacy Day
London (Jan. 28, 2010) - Iron Mountain, (NYSE: IRM), an information management services company, today released its second Compliance Benchmark Report: Best Practices for Records Management, a review of how companies store and destroy business records in time for today’s annual international Data Privacy [...]
Upgrade Also Includes New Functionality for Litigation Discovery
London, UK — (January 21, 2010) – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), an information management services company, today announced an update to its Connected® backup for PC solution to support Microsoft Windows 7 users. The upgrade, Version 8.4, will also include support for litigation discovery and is available now for [...]
Bill Brown Named to Magazine’s List of 2010 Premier 100 IT Leaders
BOSTON (Dec. 7, 2009) – IDG’s Computerworld has named Bill Brown, chief information officer at information management company Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), a 2010 Premier 100 IT Leaders honoree. The Premier 100 spotlights 100 technology and business executives for their exceptional leadership [...]
02 Dec
Iron Mountain Appoints Ramana Venkata as President of Iron Mountain Digital
LONDON, UK - December 2, 2009 - Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), a leader in information management services, has announced the promotion of Ramana Venkata to president of Iron Mountain Digital, the Company’s technology business unit. As president, Mr. Venkata will report directly to Bob [...]
14 Oct
Company Provides Developers with the Tools and Support to Integrate with its Secure, Enterprise-Class Cloud Storage
Boston, MA - October 14, 2009 - (BUSINESS WIRE)–Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM - News), the global leader in information protection and storage services, today announced that it is extending its industry-leading Archive Services Platform to application providers, including [...]
September 25, 2009
Backing Up Your Servers: Why It’s Essential
Businesses of all sizes depend on their computer data for their very existence. Whether it’s a largeenterprise with transactional data or a 15-person law office with valuable client records, business datarepresents a valuable and irreplaceable business asset. The business risk of losing this data - or even [...]
August 21, 2009
Network Backup Corp. vs. AllMyData Inc. et al
Sued companies include:
AllMyData
Best Buy
Carbonite
EMC Corp.
Iron Mountain
Netmass
Officeware doing business as FilesAnywhere.com
Pro Softnet
Webroot Software
Plaintiff Network Backup Corp. (NBC) is a Texas corporation with its principal place of business in Longview. According to the complaint, U.S. Patent No. 5,133,065 was issued July 21, 1992, for a Backup Computer Program for [...]
July 23, 2009
Integralis anticipates 30 percent reduction in storage spend from its use of Iron Mountain’s Virtual File StoreTM solution
LONDON - July 23rd 2009 - Iron Mountain Digital, the technology arm of Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) and leading provider of STorage-as-a-Service (STaaS) for backup and archiving, announced that it has signed its first European customer for its recently [...]
April 12, 2009
BMighty.com
Storage can be expensive to manage and maintain, not to mention the constant need for more disk space. By using cloud computing for data storage, business owners can take advantage of more attractive pricing and minimize ongoing costs while integrating a host of new features available from different vendors.
Cloud services offered as either cloud [...]
06 Apr
Iron Mountain to present portfolio for secure physical and digital information management and business continuity services at InfoSecurity Europe
LONDON - April 6th 2009 – At this year’s InfoSecurity Europe event in London (28-30 April), Iron Mountain will showcase its complete portfolio of secure physical and digital information management services.
Through its Storage-as–a-Service-(StaaS) concept, Iron Mountain combines [...]
March 08, 2009
NBC Nightly news got an exclusive access to visit Iron Mountain’s underground data center.
The 4 miles by 3 miles (1.7 million square feet) data center was used as a mining site in the past. It is located near Butler, Western PA.
Iron Mountain says the records in their data center could have 5,000 years [...]
23 Feb
On-Demand Long-Term Storage Service Reduces Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
for Storing Inactive Data
BOSTON, MA - February 23, 2009 - Iron Mountain Digital, the technology arm of Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE:IRM) and the leading provider of Storage-as-a-Service (StaaS) for backup and archiving, today announced the addition of Virtual File StoreTM service to its robust Digital Archiving [...]
February 18, 2009
By Kevin Komiega
Microsoft’s recent release of Service Pack 1 (SP1) for System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 was, by itself, a relatively minor announcement that included bug fixes, increased support for Microsoft applications, and support for Hyper-V virtual server platforms. But couple the SP1 release with a new relationship with Iron Mountain [...]
February 11, 2009
Gary Anthes, Computerworld
Every few months, there’s another horror story about lost tapes or stolen laptops, and we’re left wondering if the information stored on the missing media will be put to some nefarious use, thereby adding personal injury to a public relations insult.
The importance of protecting these media has become a no-brainer. But [...]
January 12, 2009
By Bhavana Navuluri
Provides online backup to flooring specialist’s data
Flooring specialist Amtico International has chosen Iron Mountain Digital to provide offsite backup to all its laptops to ensure access to data even when the PCs fail.
Amtico ran a pilot of Iron Mountain’s software Connected Backup for PC in June 2008, before adopting it [...]
January 08, 2009
Please click here to read the “11 Hot Storage Products At Macworld 2009″ at CRN
The 11 slides include the following topics:
Iomega Plugs NAS Into Home Networks
Iron Mountain Supports Macs With Online Storage
High-speed RAID For Mac
Speeding Up Mac RAID Performance
Bringing SAS To The Mac Community
Mac Solid State Drives In Single Or RAID Config
Mac Storage [...]
05 Dec
December 05, 2008
Companies can Strengthen Established Brands with .tel domain for Global, Live Contacts Directory
London – Dec 5, 2008 – Iron Mountain Digital, the technology arm of Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), today announced it will be among the first service providers to offer the new .tel domain name. The .tel domain is similar to [...]
11 Nov
November 11, 2008
BOSTON, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Since 1999, Grant Thornton U.S. has depended on Iron Mountain Digital, the technology arm of Iron Mountain Incorporated , to back up and protect the critical business data stored on its laptops and PCs. As the Chicago-based accounting firm has grown and its workforce has doubled, so too [...]
By Paul Korzeniowski
November 5, 2008
Companies are beginning to hand the task of backing up data to third parties
In many organizations, backing up data has been one of the main jobs of the IT department and one that offers the least fun. It is a task that has to occur daily — at least. It chews [...]
September 11, 2008
The Swiss telecommunications provider relies on Iron Mountain technology for its online backup service
Neu Isenburg nr. Frankfurt - Sept 11, 2008 - For the introduction of its online backup service, Swisscom - Switzerland’s leading telecom enterprise and IT outsourcing service provider - chose Iron Mountain Digital’s “Connected® Backup for PC” solution. Iron [...]
London, England
8 September 2008
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the global leader in information protection and storage services, today announced the acquisition of Anamnis GDM SAS, a firm specialising in electronic document management solutions. Anamnis GDM SAS is the sister company of Anamnis, the French records management and data protection services firm founded in 1994 and [...]
28th August 2008
By James Connell
THE company set to manage health records for Worcestershire’s hospital patients lost files containing the details of 600,000 employees in the US, it has been revealed.
Iron Mountain lost computer tapes containing personal information of Time Warner employees in March 2005, leading to a US secret service investigation.
That is the same number [...]
By Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer
28 Aug 2008 | SearchStorage.com
Iron Mountain Inc. is working on a data classification engine for its LiveVault and Connected storage services that can complement data deduplication in reducing data in repositories and cutting down on costs based on capacity.
Iron Mountain uses data deduplication on its repositories supporting Live Vault and [...]
By Matthew Kirdahy
June 27, 2008
Corporate Governance - On The Mountain Top
A fluid succession plan and a clear vision of the future will remain the key tenets to a business that has flourished under the same leadership for more than 25 years. Even though that firm foundation is in place, it won’t make the new guy’s [...]
By Chris Preimesberger
March 27, 2008
Veteran companies’ well-known brands help soothe security concerns.
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—While smaller, new-generation companies such as Arsenal (now with IBM), Berkeley Data Systems (now with EMC), Carbonite and others have tended to hog the headlines in the midmarket online data storage space, a couple of relative senior [...]
March 3, 2008
Sydney, Australia - (The Hosting News)
Information protection and storage services provider, Iron Mountain Incorporated, has made its Connected Backup for PC and LiveVault server backup solutions available directly to Australian businesses and partners through a locally-operated data center in Sydney, Australia.
Ian Hollow,Managing Director at Iron Mountain’s Australasia noted, ”Iron Mountain is the world’s [...]