CloudLeverage launches, Double-Take introduces cloud services
A good start to this week in storage as Iron Mountain acquires content archiving vendor Mimosa Systems for $112 million cash. The deal, which has been rumored about for the past week, gives Iron Mountain an on-premises archive capability to add to its SaaS offerings.
A good start to this week in storage as Iron Mountain acquires content archiving vendor Mimosa Systems for $112 million cash. The deal, which has been rumored about for the past week, gives Iron Mountain an on-premises archive capability to add to its software-as-a-service offerings.
Mergers and acquisitions for 2010
The acquisition is Iron Mountain’s first foray into the content archiving space. In January of this year, the company’s eDiscovery subsidiary Stratify (which the company acquired in 2007) introduced eVantage, an inhouse eDiscovery package. It does however expand Iron Mountain’s capabilities to archive e-mail, SharePoint and files.
And the acquisition will potentially expand Mimosa’s NearPoint system, which has been focused on the largest portion of the market – Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and Windows file servers – to cover IBM/Lotus Notes and gMail.
T.M. Ravi, CEO of Mimosa Systems will remain on board as the chief marketing officer for Iron Mountain Digital. To its credit, Mimosa has more than 1,000 customers.
In other cloud news, a start-up called CloudLeverage launched last week and Double-Take software introduced a cloud offering of its own this week.
CloudLeverage will offer network-attached storage at collocation facility Netriplex for as little as $0.05 per gigabyte. Netriplex, who founded CloudLeverage operates 32 data centers worldwide. Data can be uploaded from clients and encrypted in transit and at rest. The service supports NFS and CIFS clients.
Double-Take Software announced that it has partnered with Amazon for a server recovery platform called Double-Take Cloud, which will provide disaster recovery for any size business. Double-Take Cloud uses Double-Take Software’s system state replication engine, which lets customers recover their data, applications and operating systems and resume a operations from bare metal server.
