Report: Iron Mountain to shutter cloud storage service

Archive Service Platform customers have no migration path and are being terminated or moved to an alternative service provider, according to Gartner.

Iron Mountain's announcement makes it the third public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider to abandon the market over the past year, Gartner said. The others that have shut down are: Vaultscape, which launched its service in 2009 and closed in 2010, and EMC, which announced Atmos Online in 2009 and took it offline a year later .

To date, public cloud storage IaaS has had a modest level of adoption. Not incidentally, all three service providers go-to-market strategies focused purely on cloud storage unaccompanied by any cloud compute services. Now, only Nirvanix and Zetta remain as pure-play public cloud providers of network attached storage, Gartner said in a statement.

In response to the impending closure of the storage-as-a-service offering, Nirvanix today said it will offer all current Iron Mountain customers free data migration services to its Nirvanix Cloud StorageStorage Network, along with free unlimited storage for 30 days. Alles zu Storage auf CIO.de

Nirvanix is also offering stranded Iron Mountain customers the option of implementing a hybrid, federated cloud or private cloud storage solution -- all with the same usage-based pricing, global namespace and elastic flexibility of its public cloud, the company said in a statement.