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Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain data center Beginning as a leading provider of document storage, Iron Mountain has evolved to be a major player in the digital information age. They have brought their expertise in compliance and security to the wholesale and colocation data center business, working with customers in the government, healthcare, and finance sectors. In 2017, Iron Mountain continued to grow with its acquisition of FORTRUST and IO Data Centers.

Headquarters: Boston, MA
Web: http://www.ironmountain.com/

The Top 10 Data Center Stories for April 2022

By Rich Miller - May 2, 2022 Leave a Comment

Power and cooling equipment in a gallery running alongside a data hall in the QTS Shellhorn DC-1 data center. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Our Top 10 most popular stories for last month includes profiles on eight leading developers and service providers. If you’re seeking to understand the competitive landscape of the data center sector, it’s a pretty good reading list.   

Tagged With: Compass Data Centers, CyrusOne, Digital Bridge, Digital Realty, Evoque, Iron Mountain, QTS Realty, Sabey Data Centers

Iron Mountain Signs 72 Megawatt Lease at its Manassas Data Center

By Rich Miller - April 28, 2022 Leave a Comment

The Iron Mountain-VA-2 data center in Manassas, Virginia. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Iron Mountain Data Centers has signed a 72-megawatt lease for a tenant in Northern Virginia, the largest lease in the company’s history. The deal reflects the the super-sizing of cloud deals and data center campuses across Northern Virginia.

Tagged With: Iron Mountain, Manassas, Northern Virginia

Iron Mountain Raises its Game with Hyperscale Wins, ITRenew Acquisition

By Rich Miller - April 25, 2022 Leave a Comment

The Iron Mountain-VA-2 data center in Manassas, Virginia. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Iron Mountain is becoming a larger force in the data center business, building beyond its base of enterprise customers with recent hyperscale wins. The recent acquisition of ITRenew may boost Iron Mountain’s sustainability strategy.

Tagged With: Circular Economy, Enterprise, Iron Mountain, IT Renew

Virtualization is a Necessity for Entertainment and Media Companies

By Kathy Hitchens - April 22, 2022 Leave a Comment

The Iron Mountain AZP-2 data center in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo: Iron Mountain)

Capital pressures, the push to develop new channels and services, the need to automate, and increased bandwidth are just a few of the drivers pushing the media and entertainment industries to change. Iron Mountain explores the challenges, drivers, and opportunities for media infrastructure.

Tagged With: cloud data centers, Colocation, edge, entertainment, Iron Mountain

Creating Next Level Digital Infrastructure for the Gaming Industry

By Kathy Hitchens - April 8, 2022 Leave a Comment

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The gaming industry is growing at a rapid pace and is hungry for speed. Iron Mountain explores current challenges, drivers, and opportunities around gaming digital infrastructure.

Tagged With: Cloud, Colocation, Data Center Infrastructure, edge, Gaming, Iron Mountain

Roundtable Recap: Edge, Uptime, Supply Chain and the Nuclear Option

By Rich Miller - March 25, 2022

Our Executive Roundtable for Q1 2022 explores four topics: The growing traction for edge computing, ensuring uptime as apps and services become more complex, the state of the data center supply chain, and the potential for nuclear power as an option for data centers.

Tagged With: DartPoints, Infrastructure Masons, Iron Mountain, Kohler Power Systems, Vertiv

Are Nuclear-Powered Data Centers on the Horizon?

By Rich Miller - March 24, 2022

An illustration of the campus plans for Cumulus Data, which is creating a nuclear-powered data center in Salem, Pennsylvania. (Image: Cumulus Data/Talen Energy),

Are nuclear-powered data centers an option in the battle to forestall climate change? That’s the focus of today’s edition of the DCF Executive Roundtable. featuring five experts on data centers and cloud computing.

Tagged With: DartPoints, Infrastructure Masons, Iron Mountain, Kohler Power Systems, Nuclear, Vertiv

The Data Center Industry Begins to Feel the Supply Chain Pinch

By Rich Miller - March 23, 2022

Data center operators have employed a variety of strategies to navigate supply chain pressures and line up equipment for construction projects. (Image: Shutterstock)

After several years of supply chain disruptions, the data center industry is working harder to keep pace with continuing demand for capacity. The DCF Roundtable offers expert takes on the state of the data center supply chain.

Tagged With: DartPoints, Data Center Supply Chain, Infrastructure Masons, Iron Mountain, Kohler Power Systems, Vertiv

Cloud Outages Sharpen Focus on Uptime and Reliability

By Rich Miller - March 22, 2022

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Reliability is in the spotlight after major outages in 2021 for some of the Internet economy’s marquee names Our DCF Data Center Executive Roundtable panel of industry experts examines uptime in the cloud computing era.

Tagged With: DartPoints, Infrastructure Masons, Iron Mountain, Kohler Power Systems, Netrality, Vertiv

Executive Roundtable: Edge Computing Adoption Gaining Traction

By Rich Miller - March 21, 2022

After years of high expectations, edge computing is emerging as a more significant component of Internet architecture, with adoption growing across industries, use cases and geographies, according to the experts on the DCF Executive Roundtable.  

Tagged With: DartPoints, Edge Computing, Infrastructure Masons, Iron Mountain, Kohler Power Systems, Vertiv

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Mitigate Risk, Improve Performance and Decrease Operating Expenses through Data Center Self-Performance

Mitigate Risk, Improve Performance and Decrease Operating Expenses through Data Center Self-Performance If a vendor conducts the actual work in your data center, then you or your operator aren’t maximizing your current operating resources and are experiencing incremental cost and risk. Chad Giddings of BCS Data Center Operations, explains the importance of your data center provider having a high-degree of self-performance.

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Edge Computing is Poised to Remake the Data Center Landscape

Data center leaders are investing in edge computing and edge solutions and actively looking at new ways to deploy edge capacity to support evolving business and user requirements.

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Northern Virginia Data Center Market: The Focal Point for Cloud Growth

The Northern Virginia data center market is seeing a surge in supply and an even bigger surge in demand. Data Center Frontier explores trends, stats and future expectations for the No. 1 data center market in the country.

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Data Center 101: Mastering the Basics of the Data Center Industry

Data Center Frontier, in partnership with Open Spectrum, brings our readers a series that provides an introductory guidebook to the ins and outs of the data center and colocation industry. Think power systems, cooling, solutions, data center contracts and more. The Data Center 101 Special Report series is directed to those new to the industry, or those of our readers who need to brush up on the basics.

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