Iron Mountain Enhances Server Electronic Vaulting Service

Iron Mountain Inc. announced the enhancement of its Server Electronic Vaulting service to include stronger encryption capabilities as well as the availability of an On-site Backup Appliance to significantly reduce the restoration time necessary to get businesses back up and running in the event of a disaster or systems failure.

Iron Mountain's new On-site Backup Appliance option delivers an on-site caching capability enabling companies to reduce the time it takes to restore larger amounts of data, and achieve recovery points that get them up and running quickly without losing critical data.

Iron Mountain's Server Electronic Vaulting is a fully managed service that automatically and continuously backs up data to ensure customers won't waste precious time and efforts recreating data in the event of a disaster.  With the addition of an On-site Backup Appliance, the Server Electronic Vaulting service offers further reduction in recovery time objectives (RTO), a critical metric for measuring the success of disaster recovery plans.  The RTO determines the length of time a company can afford to be without its critical data.

Iron Mountain's Server Electronic Vaulting service is also now providing 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard encryption through the entire data lifecycle from point of transfer through to the secure storage in the Iron Mountain data center.  The addition of encryption across the lifecycle of the backup data strengthens the existing Electronic Vaulting procedure of transferring data over a secure Internet connection, and stored off-site and off-line.

Iron Mountain's Server Electronic Vaulting service significantly reduces the challenges associated with backing up servers in multiple locations. The service automatically backs up server data over the Internet and stores it off site in a secure Iron Mountain vault. Critical data is always backed up and can be immediately restored, if necessary, through a simple Web-based user interface. The element of human error is removed from backup and recovery operations.