[ Q&A ]

3 Storage-as-a-Service Market Update Capital and operating budget savings, faster time to implementation, and the ability to out- source some of your IT functions to a third party and redeploy IT staff to other tasks are some of the benefits of a STaaS approach, says Laura DuBois, program director for IDC’s Storage Software practice.

[ NEWS BRIEFS ]

6 Roundup of News Items

Hitachi Densa and Iron Mountain-Powered Backup; Grant Thornton and Iron Mountain: 10 Years Later; Iron Mountain Digital’s Connected Adds Mac OS X Support

[ COVER STORY ]

8 Put Costly Inactive Data in Its Place Seldom-accessed unstructured data clogs up your storage infrastructure and drives up costs. Now there’s a solution that can give you some breathing room.

Data growth is a fact of life in IT—
you can’t stop it, but you can take

steps to manage it more effectively.

[ DATA BACKUP ]

12 Online Backup Solves
Data Protection Challenges

A new breed of online backup solutions from Iron Mountain Digital allows businesses to back up and retrieve data via the Internet in a “set and forget” format.