Iron Cloud Secure Offline Storage (SOS)

BUSINESS CHALLENGE

In this era of digital transformation, data is growing at an extremely rapidrate. This data is often used for real-time decision making, but regulatoryand compliance mandates also require much of it to be retained, sometimesfor years, even decades. These greater demands for retention, along withheightened risks of cyberattacks, are creating a pressing need for secure,long-term offline storage. This need must be met while simultaneouslybalancing storage costs, access requirements and data retention policies.

WHAT IF YOU COULD...

• Follow best practices for data backup and archiving while also reducing costs, complexity and risk
• Modernize data protection for long-term retention and compliance
• Increase data security and protect against from ransomware

IRON CLOUD SECURE OFFLINESTORAGE

Since storing all your data in the cloudcan be expensive, Iron Mountain’sIron Cloud Secure Offline Storage(SOS) provides an ultra-low cost,fully-managed solution that movesyour inactive data - about 80 percentof the data within your organization -offline and offsite so you can reducerisk, improve security and optimizestorage costs.

Offline data is safely kept in a climatecontrolledvault, physically isolatedfrom unsecured networks and quicklyrecoverable based on SLAs. This coldstorage approach decreases yourstorage costs and ensures longtermarchival data compliance, whileretaining options for fast cloud-basedretrieval whenever needed.

HOW IT WORKS

Inactive data can be stored offlineusing a mix of cloud and tape, sodata is retrievable via the cloud butsecured in cost effective storage.Here’s how it works:

• Data is uploaded from your storage devices (cloud, hard drive, spinning disk, etc.) to a secure object bucket in the Iron Cloud. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest.
• Iron Mountain migrates inactive data from the cloud to tape, and then stores the tape in a climate controlled tape vault.
• Offline data is brought back online by requesting the data from the secure object bucket. Data is brought back online within 24 hours of the request.

INDUSTRY FACT

Archival data retention requirements of 100 years or more are now common

ACTIVE ARCHIVE ALLIANCE,ACTIVE ARCHIVE AND THE STATE OF THE INDUSTRY2019, JULY 2019

WHAT YOU GAIN

With Iron Cloud SOS, you can keep up with exponential data growth, save onlong-term storage costs and improve compliance with retention policies. Byplacing inactive data on a cost-effective storage tier, and since Iron Mountaindoesn’t charge egress fees, you can also make your data more portableand take control of the unstructured data created by your organization.Our technology agnostic approach also means we can work with your cloudproviders to create a data management strategy based on your requirements.

CASE STUDY

An organization faced rising costs of tape backup infrastructure for archivaldata and wanted to modernize their data protection strategy. Iron Cloud SOSreplaced tape infrastructure with a cloud model for long-term data retentionwith cost savings on storage, software licenses and hardware.