Iron Mountain.

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The world's most secure data backup facility is actually under a mountain.

The caves are very dry and very strong.

2,700 people work inside this mountain in pennsylvania.

They provide backup services for companies.

There are roads under the mountain that people drive around on.

It was originally a nuclear bomb bunker.

It has been converted into the most secure data center in the world, with 2500 ton solid steel blast doors.

The miles of mainframes inside the mountain are cooled by the caves natural 55 degree F temperature (what a money saving idea that is...).

Iron mountain has been doing data backup for years, they are the ones to go to if you need something really secure such as corporate financial records or health records.

The U.S. Government uses them. They have excellent encryption.

Many of the world's leading corporations use Iron Mountain.

Their software is very reliable, and just works.

Iron mountain ALSO has plans for: small & medium businesses and EVEN home businesses.

Iron mountain is about $8.95 a month for small home businesses per pc per x amounts of gigabytes of data.
Servers must go under live server pricing, but you can see what they charge under the live vault area for that.
To some of you this will sound expensive. But It's cheap compared to replacing a clients lost accounting data that possibility went into the millions.
 
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I saw them on I think Discovery, or History channel a bit back, and I was actually looking for them again to show a pal of mine who didnt believe it was true, thanks for the refresher.
 
Nice idea for backup, but I can't see how collocation would be good with them if you are looking for super-low latency solution. I'd rather have a top-tier collocation facility at a hub like chicago or new york.

Regardless, places that need true fail-safes (think financial institutions) are legislated to have a second backup location anyway, so I don't really see the added value all that much.

seems more like an e-peen ("hey baby, my datas in a nuclear fallout shelter....") thing to me but hey, whatever floats your boat ;)
 
Nice idea for backup, but I can't see how collocation would be good with them if you are looking for super-low latency solution. I'd rather have a top-tier collocation facility at a hub like chicago or new york.

Regardless, places that need true fail-safes (think financial institutions) are legislated to have a second backup location anyway, so I don't really see the added value all that much.

seems more like an e-peen ("hey baby, my datas in a nuclear fallout shelter....") thing to me but hey, whatever floats your boat ;)

I didn't know about the actual "iron mountain" (guess it makes sense really) but we use one of their local sites.
 
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We use them too at my full time job. They come in twice a month to pick up the latest backup (Friday's full backup). They are not cheap, but you can't have quality without paying the price.
 
Pics or it didn't happen? :p

I live in PA and didn't even know about this....

thats because its shush.. soo secret protech lol.

I remember watching about this on discovery also. There is a similar (but altogether different facility), not far from Burtonwood near Warrington.

From memory, it used to be a old USAF base. Now its a dedicated data storage facility.

The boss is a Customer Relations Manager for Homebase / Argos, based in Widness HO. All of their data is stored at the Burtonwood facility. If for example they have a catastrophic failure of all systems in Widness, they can simply up n move to burtonwood, where everything is in place to automatically take over.. phone lines, server's, workstations etc. Every piece of information is automatically backed up and transferred over there, like a live feed.
 
We use them at work on our machines as a backup client.

Their "Mountain" actually used to be a limestone mine owned by US Steel. They abandoned the mine in 1952 but began storing their corporate documents there during the cold war era of the atomic bomb threat. They soon saw this as a way to make a profit and started the National Underground Storage Company. They convinced the govt. to store their documents in the old limestone mine since it was deep enough to provide safety from a nuclear attack.

Iron Mountain originally had their underground storage facility in Livingston NY in an old Iron Ore mine - hence their name Iron Mountain or their original name of the Iron Mountain Atomic Storage Corp. In 1998 Iron Mountain acquired the National Underground Storage company and took over their mountain.
 
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