Iron Mountain Digital Steps Out Of Cloud Storage; Nirvanix Steps In: Page 2 of 2

So, if you've got 10TBytes or a petabyte of storage sitting on the Iron Mountain cloud, there's an offer on the table from one cloud vendor to get your data to a secure location. Others would be wise to help users who may feel stranded by the Iron Mountain decision to exit.

Regardless of which company you pick--be it Amazon S3, Nirvanix or others--be sure it has built its business as a technology innovator. Cloud innovators have substantial cloud IP. Make them demonstrate this to you. In my opinion, Nirvanix has various forms of cloud--private, hybrid and public, managed and with metered billing, Amazon has a booming public cloud business and excellent integration with its compute side, EC2.

A company like Iron Mountain trying to do storage services is equivalent of Webvan trying to build a IT consulting business to compete with EDS/HP. That just isn't going to happen.

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