Iron Mountain Abandons the Cloud

Posted on Apr 13, 2011 in Records Management News

Iron Moun­tain aban­dons the cloud

Com­pany with­draws its low-cost pub­lic cloud offer­ings to focus on more spe­cial­ized services.

By Dan Hatch, 12 Apr 2011 at 15:22
Cloud computing

When peo­ple every­where are talking-up the ben­e­fits of the cloud, it seems almost bizarre to learn one com­pany is aban­don­ing some of its cloud stor­age services.

It has been reported this week Iron Moun­tain Dig­i­tal, a com­pany which has been in the cloud for lit­tle more than a year, is plan­ning to com­pletely phase out its online stor­age busi­ness by 2013.

No other major cloud stor­age player has ever pulled-out of the sector.

But it’s not a com­plete retreat. Iron Moun­tain has report­edly noti­fied its cus­tomers it is only with­draw­ing its Vir­tual File Store and Archive Ser­vice Plat­form com­mod­ity cloud stor­age solutions.

That means the com­pany isn’t com­pet­ing with the mas­sive play­ers like Ama­zon and Google for a share of the low-cost pub­lic cloud stor­age mar­ket, and instead allows it to focus on more spe­cialised services.

Iron Moun­tain is a provider of records man­age­ment and stor­age, includ­ing paper doc­u­ments, scan­ning and dig­i­tiz­ing ser­vices, shred­ding and media destruc­tion and intel­lec­tual prop­erty man­age­ment, among other services.

The com­pany even stores some of the world’s most valu­able his­tor­i­cal arti­facts and cul­tural treasures.

For fur­ther cov­er­age of cloud com­put­ing visit our sis­ter site Cloud Pro

Read More here: http://www.itpro.co.uk/632746/iron-mountain-abandons-the-cloud

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Kodak sells microfilm business

Posted on Apr 8, 2011 in Records Management News

Image and Data Man­ager
04.07.11

Con­tin­u­ing its migra­tion to dig­i­tal, East­man Kodak Com­pany has com­pleted the sale of cer­tain assets of its micro­film prod­ucts and equip­ment busi­ness to East­man Park Micro­graph­ics, Inc.

East­man Park Micro­graph­ics pro­vides prod­ucts and ser­vices related to archival stor­age, retrieval, restora­tion and preser­va­tion of his­tor­i­cal doc­u­ments and records in county recorder offices through­out the US.

The sale includes agree­ments for Kodak to con­tinue sup­ply­ing cur­rent micro­films, as well as to pro­vide ser­vice and sup­port for micro­film equip­ment. It also includes Kodak’s US data con­ver­sion ser­vices busi­ness, which con­verts data between ana­log and dig­i­tal formats.

The sale does not include Kodak’s Doc­u­ment Imag­ing busi­ness,
doc­u­ment scan­ners, cap­ture soft­ware, infor­ma­tion cap­ture solu­tions, and services.

Tony Bar­beau, Kodak’s Gen­eral Man­ager, Doc­u­ment Imag­ing, said micro­film remains unri­valed for long-term archival stor­age of vital records.

“Kodak is the long­time leader in this busi­ness, and we will con­tinue to sup­ply the same micro­film prod­ucts, made in the same man­u­fac­tur­ing facil­i­ties, and to the same high qual­ity stan­dards to which the indus­try has been accus­tomed,” he said.

“East­man Park Micro­graph­ics is strongly com­mit­ted to this micro­film busi­ness,” said William (Sonny) Oates, Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer of East­man Park Micro­graph­ics. “We see excel­lent prospects for long-term growth. East­man Park Micro­graph­ics is com­mit­ted to invest­ing in the busi­ness to sup­port its fur­ther devel­op­ment. We are look­ing for­ward to the oppor­tu­nity to con­tinue pro­vid­ing cus­tomers with the high lev­els of qual­ity and sat­is­fac­tion estab­lished by Kodak.”

Kodak has pre­vi­ously com­mu­ni­cated that it would be sell­ing non-core assets to gen­er­ate cash to fund the com­ple­tion of its trans­for­ma­tion to a dig­i­tal company.

Read more here: http://idm.net.au/article/008344-kodak-sells-microfilm-business

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Iron Mountain offers Three WhitePapers

Posted on Apr 5, 2011 in Records Management News

Not long ago, we con­ducted a sur­vey that showed the top infor­ma­tion man­age­ment trends and con­cerns among pro­fes­sion­als like you. These include the costs asso­ci­ated with man­ag­ing infor­ma­tion, locat­ing and retriev­ing infor­ma­tion, and run­ning out of stor­age space. So, to help you address these issues while sav­ing time and money, we’re offer­ing valu­able insights from indus­try lead­ers such as Frost & Sul­li­van and the Taneja Group.

Down­load the white papers below and fol­low us on Twit­ter to adopt best prac­tices related to infor­ma­tion risks, stream­lin­ing phys­i­cal doc­u­ment man­age­ment, email and eDiscovery.

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You’ll learn:
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Dis­cover how to:
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for more infor­ma­tion
Con­tact Iron Moun­tain or call 800–899-IRON (4766).
www.ironmountain.com

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