IT ANALYST INSIGHT

Katey Wood and Nick Patience: the451 Group - Stratify latest contender in early case assessment - on-premises and in the cloud.
October 2, 2009

Stratify's eVantage is available on-premises as an appliance, but the addition of the SaaS version is the main attraction, since it can promote data to its existing Stratify Legal Discovery hosted review tool entirely within the cloud.

Simon Robinson: the451 Group - Iron Mountain early entrant into 'Cloud'
September 29, 2009

On the services side, Iron Mountain has been an early entrant into the 'cloud NAS' arena with its Virtual File Store service.

Lauren Whitehouse: Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) - Iron Mountain’s Cloud-Based Data Protection for Servers
August, 2009

Lower disk costs and bandwidth-optimized data transfer are fueling disk-to-cloud (D2C) and disk-to-disk-to-cloud (D2D2C) strategies. Iron Mountain’s LiveVault enables on- and off-premises data protection, providing small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and the remote and branch offices (ROBOs) of any size organization with an alternative to tape-centric backup and recovery.

Brian Babineau: Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) - Iron Mountain Reduces Medical Image Storage Costs
June 2009

The cost savings gained by moving to a cloud-based medical image archive are tangible… Providers should conduct their own TCO studies and compare onsite storage to an alternative like Iron Mountain‘s service…If the provider believes that cloud-based storage service will save them money, Iron Mountain‘s Digital Record Center for Medical Images—bolstered by integration with PACS applications, highly available and extremely secure data centers, and a legacy in storing other health care information—is a formidable option.

Brian Babineau: ESG-Iron Mountain-Stratify 9.0 Delivers Multiple Benefits-Feb2009
February 19, 2009

When ESG asked North American corporate counsels about the most expensive portion of the electronic discovery process, the Processing, Review, and Analysis phases received the highest response.5 Interpreting both research statistics as a whole implies that customers who want to cut electronic discovery costs should utilize solutions that improve information processing and automate data analysis and review. Iron Mountain-Stratfy?s service does just that—allowing companies to control the costs, along with the associated risks, of managing large volumes of ESI through the electronic discovery process. More specifically, the new additions to the 9.0 release of the service make it much easier for customers to manage all their matters centrally, utilize external resources, and significantly expedite multi-level review processes.

IDC Whitepaper: Cloud Storage: The Efficient Way to Augment Storage Infrastructure

“In response to the emerging challenges weighing on storage managers, Iron Mountain has architected an infrastructure that allows storage capacity to be delivered seamlessly to organizations seeking some relief.”

ESG White Paper: Iron Mountain Delivers File Archiving Service by Brian Babineau with Lauren Whitehouse February 2009

“…companies are realizing that the archive storage environment can be just as complex to manage as the primary one due to the amount of data being saved. Iron Mountain addresses this challenge with its VFS service. Combining Iron Mountain’s service delivery capabilities—inclusive of its extremely secure data centers—with its unique VFS Appliance, the VFS service delivers all of the benefits of file archiving without the internal IT operational hassle.”

IDG Research: The Hidden Cost of Storing Inactive Data - and What You Can Do About It

“If you could take away 30 percent, 40 percent, 50 percent or more of the data you need to store, your existing storage infrastructure would obviously go a lot further. That is the value proposition behind the Iron Mountain Digital Virtual File Store™ (VFS) service,…”

Taneja Group: Storage in the Cloud - A look at why the cloud will change how you work with your data

“One of the more interesting capabilities is a cloud version of Iron Mountain’s long established experience handling physical data transfer in the form of tape. For the cloud, this new service is called a “data shuttle.”

Taneja Group: Iron Mountain Throws Down the Cloud-Based Storage Solutions Gauntlet

Iron Mountain’s announcement of their strategy and their first product in this space changes that. VFS boasts all the financial and management advantages that other cloud-based storage options offer, but differentiates itself from them by providing a true solutions orientation, with key functionality critical for managing off-site data effectively over long periods of time. Their pedigree and domain expertise in information protection and storage add to the credibility of this “storage as a service” offering, setting a high bar for other cloud providers looking to compete at the business solution instead of the storage infrastructure level. This was an excellent move by Iron Mountain, and Taneja Group applauds their broad strategy in this space which offers comprehensive options through proprietary and non-proprietary cloudbased archive services.

Anne MacFarland, Clipper Group : “Iron Mountain has decades of experience in storage as a service. Now, complimenting its email archives and other specialty repositories, Iron Mountain offers a Virtual File Store to handle the miscellanies of unstructured file shares that elude easy management. It is the completer – like the serving spoons in a set of silverware – that most businesses need to support their 21st century operation.”

One of the most powerful business values of Iron Mountain is what it allows their clients IT shops not to do. Iron Mountain’s Virtual File Store offloads the library-style information maintenance tasks that many organiza-tions have neither the expertise nor the staff to perform on an ongoing basis. Instead, local IT can focus on what will provide real business value.


	Industry Analyst Relations Shelley Bakst Analyst Relations Manager shelley.bakst @ironmountain.com 508.808.7729