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Program Team
Executive Sponsor
John Petralia
Karen McPhillips
General Manager
Patty Foley-Reid
Editorial Direction
Deanna Michaelson
WE HEAR IT FROM CIOS AND
customers often: “My organization is only as good as our data.”
Unfortunately, that data is often not
controllable.
CIOs cope with data across mul-
tiple formats, metadata, structured
and unstructured data, distributed
data and content management
platforms. Iron Mountain Digital
focuses on help-
ing them manage
all that data by
securely captur-
ing, storing and
protecting it.
More important,
we work to make
that data useful.
The frame-
work we’ve
developed is
called Storage-
as-a-Service.
Building on
the concept of
software as a service, Iron Mountain
Digital’s Storage-as-a-Service solu-
tion delivers online data protec-
tion and recovery, digital records
management and information
destruction by a trusted, reliable
third-party. By outsourcing these
critical information management
functions, CIOs can concentrate on
their top priority: adding value to
the business.
In this issue of Digital Authority,
we make the case for outsourcing
these tasks to Iron Mountain. We
report on an exclusive Iron Moun-tain-sponsored study from IDG
Research Services that illuminates
the trends surrounding Storage-as-a-Service. IDC analyst Doug
Chandler offers insight into how
this concept will grow in the com-ing years.
Also in this issue, we tap our
partners at CenterBeam to learn
how they protect critical information assets. With a focus on disaster
prevention, CenterBeam’s mission
is to restore its customers to full
productivity ASAP. We also take a
look at how ICANN, the nonprofit
organization responsible for managing Internet domain name registrations, leverages Iron Mountain’s
data escrow services.
The leaders at Stratify, a recent
addition to the Iron Mountain family, explain how third-party solutions can streamline the process of
gathering and reviewing unstructured data in the event of litigation,
corporate governance policies or
compliance requirements.
And in our story on the “Big
Bucket” concept of classifying and
storing data, we hear from Iron
Mountain’s Enterprise Services
consulting program manager, Sue
Trombley, about advances in the
“capturing and making use of data”
part of the equation.
With this issue focused on Storage-as-a-Service, we’re excited to
bring Digital Authority readers an
early look at this forward-thinking
model. As regulation, litigation and
the need for consistent information
policies are growing at a quick clip,
data challenges aren’t going away
anytime soon. As Iron Mountain
SVP of Engineering and CTO Fred
Engel says, “We’re talking about
search, recovery, destruction of data,
business continuity, file restoration
and policy-driven retention periods.
These are just some of the ways
Storage-as-a-Service can make your
data not just safe and secure but
useful too.”
edi Torial Team
Editorial Director
Jim Malone
Project Manager
Amy Freeman
Art Director
Eric Mongeon
Contributing Writers
Doug Chandler
Maria Doyle
Lafe Low
Dann Maurno
Karyn Murphy
Debby Young
idg Publishing Team
Vice President, Custom Solutions Group
Matt Avery
Vice President, Production
Chris Cuoco
Associate Production Manager, Production
Lisa Stevenson
John Clancy
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