approach over an on-premises
implementation include capital and
operating budget savings, faster
time to implementation, and the
ability to outsource some of your
IT functions to a third party and
redeploy IT staff to other tasks.
DA: Talk a little bit about the needs of
enterprises versus small businesses
for online PC backup.
LD: There are clear differences
between consumer or small busi-
ness needs and the requirements
that enterprises have in terms
nesses with security features, as
well as compliance with regulatory
requirements for data protection.
DA: How does Iron Mountain’s
Connected® Backup solution address
these issues?
“The benefits of an online approach over an on-premises
implementation include capital and operating budget savings,
faster time to implementation and the ability to
outsource some of your IT functions to a third party.”
This is especially true with PC
backup, where operations teams
may already be faced with too many
projects but have a management
directive to back up the organization’s fleet of thousands of PCs.
Using an online approach can allow
the IT organization to meet that
mandate without disrupting current projects, resources or capital
budgets.
of online PC backup. The most
obvious difference is scale in the
number of PCs that must be protected. However, other factors such
as platform support, how backups
get configured, the frequency of the
backups and the level of recovery,
in terms of both recovery times and
recovery points, are also different.
Larger enterprises are also much
more concerned than small busi-
LD: Let me tell you about an unso-
licited conversation I had with an
Iron Mountain Connected customer
recently. This was a midsize legal
firm with about 400 servers and 60
terabytes of storage. First of all, he
said that Iron Mountain Connected
doesn’t duplicate what it already
has backed up, so it doesn’t eat
up a lot of hard drive space. That
is absolutely a key requirement—
Q: On a scale of 1-5, how much did the following features influence your decision to evaluate and/
or implement a particular online backup solution? ( 1=most important and 5=least important)
