Iron Mountain has announced an expansion to its Data Restoration and Migration Services (DRMS) for those seeking to migrate tape-based data into Amazon Web Services (AWS).

DRMS now includes the ability to migrate data stored on tape to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon S3 Glacier (S3 Glacier), or Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive (S3 Glacier Deep Archive) for long-term data retention and storage.

Iron Mountain is looking to migrate its customers’ tape-based data to multiple AWS storage classes, either on demand or via bulk transfer, to further build big-data, artificial intelligence/machine learning-powered applications and solutions.

"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, vice president and general manager, 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."

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