Amazon’s Glacier is a cloud storage offering designed for the storage of data which doesn’t require fast access or recovery time objective (RTO). Iron Mountain is a similar service for storing data offsite, but uses physical data tape storage from the customer’s data center vs. the cloud storage approach of moving data directly from disk across wide area networks (WAN) into a remote, cloud storage facility.
With growing regulations around information management, litigation on the rise and massive quantities of data being generated every day, organisations need to store and protect increasing volumes of data for set periods of time.