Iron Mountain Bows Out of Cloud Storage Race

Rather than compete with companies such as Amazon S3, Google, and CommVault to sell basic online storage space, Iron Mountain will be focusing instead on specialized services around storage, such as intellectual property management and e-discovery for legal purposes. Storage analyst and vice president of research for Enterprise Strategy Group, Brian Babineau told E Week he was not surprised because Iron Mountain has never been a commodities company. The company has announced it is retiring its commodity-type public storage services, Virtual File Store and Archive Service Platform.