Data Management

Offsite tape vaulting and managed services

Your final defense against digital threats is physical separation.

Tape backup and offsite tape vaulting services

Protecting critical business information offsite and offline provides confidence in recovering data when it’s needed.

Your staff should focus on tasks that are important to the business. But with increasing amounts of critical business information needing to be backed up and protected, you're forced to spend time and money to manage the process, media and facilities.

By moving tapes offsite and into the care of a trusted third party with proven resources, chain-of-custody, technology and experience focused on protecting your data, you can reduce downtime and get back up and running – because your business depends on it.

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Key benefits of an air-gapped tape strategy

Ultimate security and business continuity:

Tape provides an offline data copy that enables full system recovery from clean backups, ensuring business continuity even if your online systems, cloud environments, and disk backups are compromised.

Drastically reduced costs:

Tape offers the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) and the absolute lowest per-terabyte when compared to hard disk drives for long-term cloud archives.

Data egress savings

Integrating tape minimises the high costs and steep transfer fees commonly associated with moving or retrieving your data out of cloud environments.

Durability and compliance:

Modern linear tape open (LTO) cartridges are rugged and durable, lasting up to 30 years, drastically reducing data migration costs compared to hard disk drives, which last only 3-5 years. Tape also natively supports WORM (Write Once, Read Many) technology, ensuring data immutability for strict legal and regulatory compliance.

Sustainable and ESG-friendly:

Tape is highly energy-efficient; it draws no power when resting on a shelf, requiring electricity only during active reading or writing.

Deploy flexible backup processes tailored to your IT resources

Whether your internal IT team lacks bandwidth or you don't have the necessary hardware for tape operations, Iron Mountain offers flexible service models to fit your needs:

All processes include secure transport to Iron Mountain’s highly secure, temperature- and humidity-controlled offsite media vaults, which feature physical barriers, keycard access, CCTV, and specialised fire suppression systems.

Iron Mountain can support your operation with a portfolio of services