Iron Mountain Expands Tape Restoration and Migration Services

Iron Mountain, Inc., in storage and information management services with more than 42,000 data management customers and 120EBs in storage, announced an expansion to its Data Restoration and Migration Services (DRMS), offering customers seeking to migrate tape-based data into AWS.

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With the expanded offering, companies will have the ability to modernize their data management strategy while maintaining security, access, and governance.

In addition, Iron Mountain announced it has joined the AWS Partner Network (APN) as a select technology partner, enabling customers to accelerate their digital transformation journey with AWS.

With DRMS, customers will have the ability to migrate data stored on tape to Amazon S3, S3 Glacier, or S3 Glacier Deep Archive for long-term data retention and storage. Customers can develop a strategy for migration of their tape-based data to multiple AWS storage classes, either on demand or via bulk transfer. Customers can leverage tape-based data, protected and managed by Iron Mountain for migration to AWS, to further build big-data, AI/ML-powered applications and solutions.

Partners with customers to formulate a data strategy that helps save time and money and maximizes the value of tape-based data migrated to AWS. The expanded DRMS accelerates IT modernization, aligning to an organization’s digital transformation initiative while providing data protection to meet with regulatory and compliance requirements.

“Bringing together DRMS and AWS delivers on our strategy to align our services with companies like AWS, bringing tremendous value to our mutual customers,” said Tom Fetters, VP and GM, data protection, Iron Mountain. “As more organizations embrace cloud as part of their digital transformation journey, they seek partners who can help them solve the data protection, integration, migration, access and governance challenges they encounter along the way. Customers understand that their tapes continue to be an essential data source in this journey. Our expanded offering delivers compelling capabilities to AWS customers, leveraging Iron Mountain’s proven experience and trusted expertise in helping store, secure, access, and derive value from their data.“