Iron Mountain (News - Alert) Digital is the technology arm of Iron Mountain and a provider of Storage-as-a-Service solutions. The company’s Connected Backup for PC solution has been chosen as Swisscom’s (News - Alert) new flexible and scalable backup offering and will allow their mobile staff to backup local data on their PCs and laptops via the Internet to their data centers, and retrieve the information at any time.
Swisscom picked Connected Backup for PC impressed by it features such as sophisticated data reduction and de-duplication technologies, and its potential to deliver a fast return on investment (ROI). The solution is also easy to administer and user friendly. The company already shares a business relationship with Iron Mountain Digital and is using their solution to protect its own 17,500 staff PCs.
There is a huge demand for online backup services for the rapidly increasing mobile corporate staff, according to a study conducted by the Swiss telecommunications provider. The demand has been identified especially in the small- and medium-sized enterprise sector. Swisscom has also uncovered high potential in the field of workplace management and due to their competence in the outsourcing sector, they are confident of their ability to offer businesses improved service level agreements (SLAs). Through these agreements, Swisscom aims to cut down the support workload placed on companies' internal IT departments.
Georges Schlegel, head of Swisscom's product management division for large businesses, refers to a number of surveys indicating that presently companies are not able to treat their distributed data on mobile devices any differently from all its other corporate data. Also, they are not able to integrate them into its data backup strategy. He recognized the difficulty in tracking distributed data than data stored directly on servers, especially when staff is not working from the office.
Schlegel noted that with their online backup service, businesses can easily solve this problem by running automatic backups to central offsite data centers. Iron Mountain Digital's technology helps them accomplish this task by allowing them to combine data backup and data security to address their customers’ needs.
“Swisscom’s unique online backup service combines the best of the best -- their expertise in leading service quality, with our undisputed No. 1 solution for automatic desktop and laptop data protection and recovery,” stated John Clancy, president of Iron Mountain Digital.
Last week, Iron Mountain acquired Stratify, a provider of advanced electronic discovery services for the legal market, in a deal valued at approximately $158 million in cash. The company offers in-depth discovery and data investigation solutions for AmLaw 200 law firms and Fortune 500 corporations.
The acquisition has equipped Iron Mountain with a complete, end-to-end Discovery Services solution that helps manage paper and digital information for discovery and data investigations, compliance and associated records management, and litigation matters.
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