Iron Mountain and Microsoft Team up on Cloud Backup

January 16, 2009: Iron Mountain and Microsoft have announced a new strategic partnership to deliver a cloud-based backup and recovery solution.

Iron Mountain’s Storage-as-a-Service solution provider Iron Mountain Digital has teamed up with Redmond to enable Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 customers to automatically backup their data to Iron Mountain Digital’s CloudRecovery service.

The company says that its cloud-based solution will be available to all DPM customers beginning early in 2009, and those who contract for the service by April 15, 2009, will receive 60 days of free service.

“Iron Mountain Digital and Microsoft are uniquely qualified to help customers manage and protect their data,” said John Clancy, president, Iron Mountain Digital in a statement. “Our strategic relationship with Microsoft combines their strengths in platforms and applications with Iron Mountain’s strengths in enterprise storage-as-a-service and disaster recovery.”

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