Iron Mountain and EMC Enter Strategic Relationship for Cloud Services

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Enterprise businesses are challenged with managing the trade-offs between exploding data growth, stringent availability and security requirements and tighter IT budgets. Iron Mountain® Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) and EMC (NYSE: EMC) announced a strategic relationship today to deliver cloud backup and replication services which will help customers optimize their on-premise and off-premise data protection strategy. This is a natural alliance for both businesses. EMC is the industry leader for purpose built backup appliances and Iron Mountain is an industry leader in offsite data vaulting - services customers usually buy together. Iron Mountain is also one of the only providers to offer Data Domain replication to the cloud with ‘tape out’ capabilities and a service to help customers migrate from tape management.