IronMountain announced today that it will pay $112 million for Mimosa Systems, which makes archiving appliances for e-mail, SharePoint and files. The purchase gives IM Digital both a premises archiving product as well as a SaaS-based e-mail archiving service. The SaaS archiving offering uses technology from Mimecast, a UK-based company. In the short term, the move lets Iron Mountain Digital go after customers--particularly in the mid-market where Mimosa was successful--who are uncomfortable with cloud-based archiving services. Iron Mountain will go head to head with vendors such as Barracuda Networks, which offers a range of archiving appliances, and software vendors such as Symantec, CA and EMC. EMC rebooted its own archiving strategy last spring. In the long term, I wonder if Iron Mountain Digital is paving the way for a hybrid offering that combines a premises system and a cloud archive. In this vision, customers who aren't ready for a full cloud service can keep X Tbytes in their own racks, while the rest of it moves up to the provider's data centers. Note that this is only speculation on my part. To Continue Reading: Click Here ----------------------------------------------- Source: networkcomputing.com By: Andrew Conry Murray

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