Iron Mountain Selects as Data Center For Colocation by Seagate

Iron Mountain, Inc. and Seagate Technology plc announced a multi-year alliance agreement that brings together distinct capabilities in security, services, and scale from two industry information storage and management companies.

Seagate will co-locate parts of its data center operations to Iron Mountain’s National Underground Data Center. Additionally, Iron Mountain will resell Seagate EVault cloud server backup and cloud DR solutions.

“This partnership offers customers a unique combination of technology and trust,” said Jason Buffington, senior data protection analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “Combining Seagate’s expertise as an early innovator in hybrid data protection, built on on-premises appliances and cloud repositories; with Iron Mountain’s solid reputation as a trusted protector of data and assets, should be a welcome pairing for customers and partners looking for hybrid protection. As the BC/DR market continues to evolve, this combination will be one to watch and partner with moving forward.“

“This is an incredible partnership between two global data management leaders,” said Mike Palmer, SVP and GM of cloud systems and solutions, Seagate. “The unique combination of our cloud systems and solutions being housed in Iron Mountain’s highly secure and compliant data center provides organizations with unparalleled security, reliability, and confidence.“

Iron Mountain will offer Seagate EVault cloud backup and cloud DR services with the benefit of their data being protected in Iron Mountain’s National Underground Data Center near Pittsburgh, PA.

Through this partnership Iron Mountain customers will be able to:

• Protect their servers with backup into a secured data center and pay only for what is used;
• Store backup data 220-feet underground for DR and retention in Iron Mountain’s resilient and secure data center; and
• Receive recovery services with Seagate’s industry recovery team within agreed upon service-level agreements (1 hour, 24 hours, and 48 hours)
  

“We take backup and storage very seriously, much like Seagate, so it was a natural fit for our companies to join forces,” said Eileen Sweeney, SVP and GM, data management, Iron Mountain. “Customers come to Iron Mountain because of our reputation as the one to turn to when you need to know that your data is safe, no matter what happens. We’re very happy to provide this level of reliability to Iron Mountain and Seagate customers, and pleased to offer our customers Seagate’s best in class cloud backup and DR solution.“

Janson Hoambrecker, director of product management, Seagate, and Dr. Jeremy Zhang, director of product management, Iron Mountain ,discussed, at Gartner’s Data Center, Infrastructure & Operations Management conference in Las Vegas, NV, on December 4th, 2014, how the two companies have come together to help customers solve their backup and DR problems.