Iron Mountain releases API for secure cloud storage

Posted on Oct 20, 2009 in Records Management News

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Iron Moun­tain Opens its Archive Ser­vices Plat­form for Devel­op­ers and Inde­pen­dent Soft­ware Vendors

Com­pany Pro­vides Devel­op­ers with the Tools and Sup­port to Inte­grate with its Secure, Enterprise-Class Cloud Storage

BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct. 14, 2009– Iron Moun­tain Incor­po­rated (NYSE: IRM), 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 cor­po­rate devel­op­ers and inde­pen­dent soft­ware ven­dors (ISVs), so that they may offer cloud stor­age with their appli­ca­tions. Through the new Iron Moun­tain Devel­oper Pro­gram, the Com­pany will offer devel­op­ers the tools and resources nec­es­sary to inte­grate Iron Mountain’s secure enterprise-class cloud archiv­ing services.

Devel­op­ers can now lever­age the secu­rity and scal­a­bil­ity of Iron Mountain’s Storage-as-a-Service model to allow their users to reduce the risk, cost and com­plex­ity of man­ag­ing their dig­i­tal infor­ma­tion. This is the first time the Com­pany has extended its enter­prise archiv­ing plat­form to out­side appli­ca­tion devel­op­ers, and beyond its own backup and archive solutions.

The Devel­oper Pro­gram offers appli­ca­tion devel­op­ers seam­less inte­gra­tion with Iron Mountain’s Archive Ser­vices Plat­form through an appli­ca­tion pro­gram­ming inter­face (API) that pro­vides secure, off-site long-term data stor­age for data-intensive appli­ca­tions, as well as advanced index­ing, search and retrieval capa­bil­i­ties and reten­tion and destruc­tion functionality.

“The cloud is burst­ing with com­pa­nies eager to deliver stor­age ser­vices to busi­ness cus­tomers. Suc­cess will require a lot more than a sim­ple API and a bucket of stor­age on the remote end of a wire,” said Jeff Boles, senior ana­lyst and direc­tor of val­i­da­tion ser­vices for the Taneja Group. “With this in mind, Iron Moun­tain real­izes they have a dis­tinct advan­tage when it comes to serv­ing up stor­age in the cloud, and we see them steadily march­ing for­ward in weav­ing all of their dig­i­tal infor­ma­tion man­age­ment and ser­vice capa­bil­i­ties together into a rich ser­vice that is well aligned to the needs of the business.”

Upon join­ing Iron Mountain’s Devel­oper Pro­gram, appli­ca­tion providers can take advan­tage of the Company’s Archive Ser­vices Plat­form API to meet end users’ chal­lenges when it comes to stor­ing and pro­tect­ing the large amounts of data gen­er­ated by their appli­ca­tions. Key fea­tures of the Archive Ser­vices Plat­form include:

* SOAP and REST Web ser­vices inter­faces that allow for easy inte­gra­tion with data-intensive appli­ca­tions * Stan­dard NFS and CIFS inter­faces in addi­tion to the API * Easy-to-use index­ing, search, and retrieval capa­bil­i­ties, with optional reten­tion and destruc­tion func­tion­al­ity * Scal­a­bil­ity to petabyte vol­umes to meet chang­ing archiv­ing demands * Best-in-class ser­vice and sup­port * Secure, reli­able cloud stor­age from the trusted leader in enter­prise Storage-as-a-Service solutions

Appli­ca­tions providers, includ­ing Res­cen­tris and ZL Tech­nolo­gies, are already tak­ing advan­tage of Iron Mountain’s Devel­oper Program.

“In the elec­tronic lab note­book sys­tems and sci­en­tific con­tent man­age­ment arena, secure data archiv­ing is crit­i­cal due to the highly-regulated nature of life sci­ences,” said Jeff Spitzner, Ph.D., pres­i­dent and chief sci­ence offi­cer for Res­cen­tris. “For the long-term records preser­va­tion our indus­try demands, Iron Moun­tain was the obvi­ous part­ner. We turned to Iron Moun­tain to enhance our solu­tions with trusted archiv­ing ser­vices that pro­vide the secu­rity, com­pli­ance, and access to infor­ma­tion that our cus­tomers require.”

“As a trusted provider of email and file archiv­ing for large enter­prises, ZL requires depend­able and scal­able archiv­ing stor­age ser­vices. Iron Moun­tain pro­vides exactly that, with a heavy empha­sis on enter­prise secu­rity,” said Kon Leong, pres­i­dent and chief exec­u­tive offi­cer of ZL Tech­nolo­gies. “The com­bi­na­tion of Iron Mountain’s reli­a­bil­ity with ZL’s uni­fied archiv­ing, search and retrieval capa­bil­i­ties ensures that large enter­prise cus­tomers can imme­di­ately access all rel­e­vant busi­ness infor­ma­tion across the entire enter­prise, when­ever they need it.”

“In an increas­ingly dig­i­tal world, every­one is chal­lenged with prop­erly stor­ing, pro­tect­ing and man­ag­ing the infor­ma­tion they input into appli­ca­tions. With the launch of our Devel­oper Pro­gram, appli­ca­tion providers can extend the same secu­rity and reli­a­bil­ity that Iron Moun­tain pro­vides to its enter­prise cus­tomers to their own end users, giv­ing them ulti­mate trust in their solu­tion,” said John Clancy, pres­i­dent, Iron Moun­tain Dig­i­tal. “Not only will mem­bers of the pro­gram receive tools and sup­port to inte­grate our Archive Ser­vices Plat­form with their appli­ca­tions via the API, but they will also be able to offer their cus­tomers tremen­dous incre­men­tal value in new infor­ma­tion man­age­ment functionality.”

As part of the intro­duc­tion of its Devel­oper Pro­gram, Iron Moun­tain has also launched the Devel­oper Net­work, an online com­mu­nity that pro­vides appli­ca­tion providers with the tools, infor­ma­tion, online sup­port and forums nec­es­sary to suc­cess­fully inte­grate with Iron Mountain’s Archive Ser­vices Plat­form. For more infor­ma­tion about the Devel­oper Net­work, as well as Iron Mountain’s Archive Ser­vices Plat­form API and the Devel­oper Pro­gram, visit http://developer.ironmountain.com.

About Iron Moun­tain Digital

Iron Moun­tain Dig­i­tal is the world’s lead­ing provider of soft­ware– and storage-as-a ser­vice solu­tions for backup and archiv­ing. The tech­nol­ogy arm of Iron Moun­tain Incor­po­rated offers a com­pre­hen­sive suite of data pro­tec­tion, archiv­ing and intel­lec­tual prop­erty man­age­ment solu­tions to thou­sands of com­pa­nies around the world, directly and through a world­wide net­work of chan­nel part­ners. Iron Moun­tain Dig­i­tal is based in South­bor­ough, Mass. with Euro­pean head­quar­ters in Frank­furt, Germany.

About Iron Mountain

Iron Moun­tain Incor­po­rated (NYSE:IRM) helps orga­ni­za­tions around the world reduce the costs and risks asso­ci­ated with infor­ma­tion pro­tec­tion and stor­age. The Com­pany offers com­pre­hen­sive records man­age­ment and data pro­tec­tion solu­tions, along with the exper­tise and expe­ri­ence to address com­plex infor­ma­tion chal­lenges such as ris­ing stor­age costs, lit­i­ga­tion, reg­u­la­tory com­pli­ance and dis­as­ter recov­ery. Founded in 1951, Iron Moun­tain is a trusted part­ner to more than 140,000 cor­po­rate clients through­out North Amer­ica, Europe, Latin Amer­ica and Asia Pacific. For more infor­ma­tion, visit the Company’s Web site at www.ironmountain.com.

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Iron Moun­tain Incor­po­rated Laura Sud­nik, 508–808-7528 Laura.Sudnik@ironmountain.com

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