Data Restoration and Migration
Offsite Tape Backup & Storage Solutions
Leave the backup and storage of your archival tapes in our safe hands and focus on driving business innovation
Protecting and preserving business data offsite - meet compliance requirements while ensuring data availability
Dealing with the consequences of hardware malfunctions, human errors, software corruption and man-made or natural disasters can impact productivity. But the data has to be backed up and, more importantly, protected offsite so it’s available for recovery.
Iron Mountain Philippines’s Offsite Tape Vaulting services provide you with a comprehensive data protection solution for transporting, storing, managing and retrieving your backup media from a secure, offsite facility.
We have the expertise to ensure you can get back up and running should the unexpected happen. Our rigorous chain-of-custody protocols and secure logistics ensures your critical information is protected while in transit and at rest. And, because your media is managed following proven procedures and best practices, you’ll be confident in your ability to find what you need when you need it, any time an internal or external source requests data from a specific tape.
How Iron Mountain Offsite Tape Storage Works
Iron Mountain offsite tape storage solution provides comprehensive support for tape backup, archiving, and storage. Here are the key steps and services involved in Iron Mountain Philippines’s offsite tape backup and vault storage:
- Cloud-based Tape Backup: Adopting a new tape backup strategy and migrating to a new technology can be complex and costly. Iron Mountain’s cloud backup solution offers a flexible approach to back up with differing levels of support and scale depending on your requirements.
- Offsite backup tape drive libraries provide a practical and cost-effective solution for protecting business data offsite and offline, but this does not mean information is out of reach. When you need it, our customer web portal enables you to you know exactly where your data is and how quickly it can be retrieved. With threats like ransomware, storing your data and media remotely offers the most secure data storage option for your business.
- Climate-controlled storage ensures there is minimal risk of damage or data loss, whether you are storing your backup tapes in the short term or your data centre’s archived tapes for the long run.
- Managed restoration ensures your archival tapes can be restored and data migrated at any time and at a predictable cost.
Eliminate the need for onsite personnel to perform backup tasks
Protect your data via a documented chain of custody to ensure its security and accountability
Which tape vaulting service are you looking for?
Manage, search, locate and retrieve your data online through an easy-to-use, secure web interface
It’s happened – you’re unable to produce the data you need for litigation requests and audits, so you now must spend time and effort searching for the media with the required data for the request.
Stop worrying about your backup tapes and free up costly staff time by making SecureSync® a part of your tape management program, so you’ll know where the backup data is at all times.
- 24/7 access to your offsite data
- Full transparency into where your data is at, whether in transit or in the vault
- Free for Iron Mountain customers
SecureSync® offers everything you need to track your media at Iron Mountain facilities, schedule pickups, view reports, store and access your disaster recovery plan and more.
- Automate Media Pickups
- Tracking of media at recovery sites during a disaster event or test
- Status and exception reports
- Online Tracking of Media to Reduce Staff Burdens and Manual Errors
- Real-time online inventory of tapes distributed to, stored in and returning from Iron Mountain
- Manage administrative and authorisation tasks easily and quickly anytime, anywhere
Know that your offsite media inventory was both complete and accurate
Unknown or unresolved media inventory discrepancies represent major risk to your organisation —especially when media that is unaccounted for could be requested at any time as part of an audit or litigation request, or in response to a disaster recovery incident. And it can require significant time, energy and expense to search for and locate misplaced media.
It’s in your best interest to know your inventory is accurate and complete. Iron Mountain’s Inventory Audit service provides an extra measure of confidence by helping you identify exactly what data you have and where it resides.
Depending on your needs and the reason you’re performing an audit, there are several Inventory Audit service options available to support you:
Inventory Comparison
Simple and effective, you submit your media barcode numbers via SecureSync® and we generate a report that shows any discrepancies. This is a no-charge service for current Iron Mountain® Offsite Tape Vaulting customers.
Logic Vault Audit
Scan and report. Iron Mountain scans all or a subset of the barcodes for your media stored in our vault. When complete, your authorised users receive a report of the findings, including any errors, duplicates and/or missing items.
Customer Scan
Roll up your sleeves and get hands on. Visit an Iron Mountain media vault and you’ll be given a space to work where you can perform an audit onsite using your own staff. Iron Mountain will assist you with the audit and help you resolve any discrepancies that may arise.
Data growth and retention policies are making archived data difficult to manage Business data needs to be retained – either for compliance reasons or to maintain the integrity of the organisation. But data is growing fast and it’s overflowing. At this point you have so much data, you aren’t sure how to manage it. It’s all important information that needs to be maintained for the integrity of your business, but storing it has become a challenge.
Archived information is probably low priority data that you don’t always need. It’s your original data that is still important to your business. Knowing what data is stored on your archive tapes becomes critical any time you’re faced with an audit, litigation or discovery request.
Experience and knowledge to help manage protect and preserve information
Backup is for recovery and archive is to restore. In any situation, whether a day-to-day question or a major catastrophe, you need to be able to access your data securely and efficiently. Iron Mountain has the experience and knowledge to help you determine how to identify information for archive and backup purposes.
Iron Mountain provides a comprehensive data archiving solution and retrieval program to cost effectively protect and preserve data that needs to be retained, and accessible for compliance, legal and value generation - letting the IT staff focus on driving business innovation while being confident in knowing what data is stored yet accessible when needed.
Data growth can make it difficult to identify the information that needs to be retained
Your organisation is growing and so is the volume of digital media. It’s difficult to identify specific pieces of information when combing through tape archives. This is especially true where your information could be stored in numerous redundant media formats. Plus you may have experienced mergers, acquisitions, business expansions, and IT organisational changes, making it more challenging to manage your past and present data volumes.
Develop and apply a well-defined retention policy for data retention.
Managing the explosive growth in data, while determining exactly what data needs to be retained creates challenges:
- Identifying what information resides on your legacy backup tapes
- Producing information for discovery or other time-critical requests
- The risk of penalties or fines for failing to respond to a legal discovery or compliance event
- Confidence in knowing you’re keeping only the data that needs to be retained
- Making decisions on retention, destruction, and restoration of your data
- The secret to knowing what data you no longer need to hold on to is 1) knowing what you have and 2) applying a defensible, well-defined retention policy to your data inventory.
- The Iron Mountain® Tape Identification service helps you understand the content of your backup tapes through proactive indexing, giving you a clear picture of the types of data residing on your tapes.
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions about Iron Mountain Offsite Tape Storage Solutions
Why outsource tape backup and storage to Iron Mountain?
Iron Mountain has over 70 years’ experience in information management, trusted by over 225,000 organisations around the world and the FORTUNE 1000. We work with organisations of all sizes and industries to streamline their data management and recovery processes whilst assisting with local legislative and industry compliance, saving time, money and mitigating potential reputational damage in the event of a breach or emergency.
How can we be sure that our backup data is secure?
Iron Mountain has invested significant resources in order to provide highly secure storage vaults and off-site storage processes. From climate controlled transportation, fire prevention and security measures and environment controlled facilities, background checks for employees, leading technology, and stringent processes; you will have peace of mind that your data is safe with us.
Where is our tape stored?
Iron Mountain has multiple secure vault storages in Philippines located in disaster-proof areas that are also convenient to access to allow for rapid recovery.
How can you help us with disaster recovery planning?
Utilising best practise and industry expertise, Iron Mountain consultants will work with you to develop a tailored data protection and recovery plan across multiple locations throughout Philippines, taking into consideration a range of disaster scenarios which could impact your organisation. will then be returned to and safely stored in our offsite storage centres.
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