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Offsite tape vaulting

Peace of mind knowing your media is protected at all times.

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Cyber attacks are increasing. Is your cloud backup just another target?

Your final defense against digital threats is physical separation.

Organizations are generating vast amounts of data that need secure, long-term storage. Relying solely on cloud backups poses risks, as always-online environments are vulnerable to breaches and ransomware attacks. Additionally, storing large volumes of data in the cloud can incur high per-terabyte costs along with expensive data egress and transfer fees.

The Solution: Iron Mountain Offsite Tape Vaulting & Managed Services

Offsite Tape Vaulting ensures a physical "air gap" for your critical data. By storing backups offline and off-site, tape storage protects against remote attacks and ransomware. This approach supports the "3-2-1-0" backup rule for optimal digital resilience.

3 copies of data
2 different media types
1 off-site copy that is physically air-gapped
0 opportunity for data infiltration

Offsite tape vaulting consulting

Business requirements are constantly changing as new rules and regulations are published and yet your business must be compliant.

It can be complex and difficult to maintain an efficient reliable and effective vaulting strategy that meets these constantly changing requirements. Iron Mountain’s Offsite Vaulting consulting services provide you insights into the best practices of tape vaulting and retention.

Iron Mountain has a trusted team of professional advisors dedicated to providing you with the advice you help you best address your data protection, disaster recovery and archive business requirements. Our advisors supply you with practical recommendations, industry best practices and personal attention to make sure your organisation's data is secure, compliant and properly managed.

Data storage is a big job. Save your organisation time, money and space, and let Iron Mountain’s professionals give you the confidence you need to improve your data storage process.

Which tape vaulting service are you looking for?

Protecting critical data offsite and offline

Temperature-controlled facilities with underground options available
Physical barriers, keycard access, monitored security, and CCTV
Fire suppression systems combine automatic in-rack or in-aisle inert gas based systems

Insourced:

You procure the tapes, your staff backs up the data, and we securely transport and vault it.

Fully Outsourced:

Iron Mountain provides trained staff to manage the entire backup process in your data center, freeing up your IT resources for mission-critical work.

Automated:

Iron Mountain provides the hardware and automation to create backups and tape libraries on your behalf.

On-site tape management services provided by trained Iron Mountain staff

Free IT staff from manual processes
Redeploy IT resources to other mission-critical demands
Benefit from managed service at predictable costs

Inventory Comparison

Simple and effective, you submit your media barcode numbers via SecureSync^® and we generate a report that shows any discrepancies. This is a no-charge service for current Iron Mountain^® Offsite Tape Vaulting customers.

Logic Vault Audit

Scan and report. Iron Mountain scans all or a subset of the barcodes for your media stored in our vault. When complete, your authorised users receive a report of the findings, including any errors, duplicates and/or missing items.

Customer Scan

Roll up your sleeves and get hands on. Visit an Iron Mountain media vault and you’ll be given a space to work where you can perform an audit onsite using your own staff. Iron Mountain will assist you with the audit and help you resolve any discrepancies that may arise.

Comprehensive media relocation and consolidation

Label, log, and inventory each tape
Online tracking

Secure tape transportation and management

Reliably track the progress of your backup media along every step of the transportation route

Many of the risks of data loss and theft associated with confidential information are at their highest during transport, especially with unencrypted data. Choosing Iron Mountain for secure, data transportation is one way to help minimise those risks for your most critical data.

Iron Mountain InControl^® solution installed in dedicated vehicles securely transports your business information and delivers patented security, tracking and auditable chain of custody.

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Secure dedicated transportation tape vaulting

Extending Security and Best Practices To Remote Areas

Protecting your company’s backup data is a vital part of protecting your brand, reputation, compliance status and even the health of your business. With our Dedicated Transportation service you can be confident that your backup media is transported securely between your facilities and our offsite storage vaults.

Uses drivers who are thoroughly vetted, with the option of assigning a second, highly-trained iron mountain employee to stay with your media at all times.
Offers special add-on options, such as air transport, disaster recovery test programs, and “one-time-only” tape library moves.
Securely transports your media in a dedicated vehicle equipped with Iron Mountain InControl^® solution that delivers patented security, tracking, and auditable chain of custody

Backupcare for tape vaulting

Reduce the burden on your IT Staff to manage backup processes at remote data centers

Whether your current data center is situated at a remote, unstaffed location, or if you happen to “stand up” your data center in a third-party colocation facility, you already know – all too well – how remote sites or isolated servers add a layer of complexity to staffing, training and internal processes for your organisation.

Take the burden off your IT staff from managing a remote data center facility by letting Iron Mountains knowledgeable specialists handle the backup and data protection process.

Iron Mountain^® BackupCare is a value-added service within the Iron Mountain Data Backup and Recovery suite of solutions. As an Iron Mountain offsite tape vaulting customer, BackupCare will help you achieve immediate process efficiencies by enabling your IT staff to focus on higher priority initiatives.

Free your it staff from managing data backup and vaulting from afar

Eliminate the need for onsite personnel to perform backup tasks

Protect your data via a documented chain of custody to ensure its security and accountability

Mediacare for tape vaulting

Ensure your backup media
Especially from remote office locations
Reaches its storage destination safe and secure

You’ve invested significantly in backing up your data and you want to make sure it is protected at all times. In some cases you may move your backup data to another region of the country; perhaps your data center is in an area that is prone to natural disasters or is in a remote location.

Even when transporting your media via a third-party, you can take comfort in knowing that Iron Mountain will care for as if it were our own. Protect your sensitive data with MediaCare^™ because it matters.

Help remote offices adhere to your data backup and recovery program
Achieve a unified view of your backup media regardless of how it’s transported to the Iron Mountain vault
Accelerate response times to audit, legal discovery and disaster recovery events

Whenever you are faced with a situation requiring third-party transportation services to bring your backup data to Iron Mountain, our MediaCare^™ service is there. It provides peace of mind that once your media arrives at our vault, the data is immediately received and processed according to the same highest security measures and best practices that apply to every tape and electronic record delivered via an Iron Mountain vehicle.

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