Cloud Storage Solutions Like Amazon s3 Lose Some Competition
In an era of exploding interest in cloud storage, Iron Mountain Digital is surprisingly bowing out of the competition with providers like Amazon s3, Google and CommVault to sell basic online storage space.
Instead, the company plans to focus on offering specialized services around storage, such as intellectual property management and e-discovery for legal purposes. The company has announced that it is retiring its commodity-type public storage services, Virtual File Store and Archive Service Platform. This will leave its customers using these products stranded, but Nirvanix is offering them the option of implementing a hybrid, federated cloud or private cloud storage solution, with the same usage-based pricing, global namespace and elastic flexibility of its public cloud. Iron Mountain got into the cloud storage race in 2009, and it's planned phase-out is a first in the cloud storage space.