Iron Mountain Signs Leases for Six Megawatts with Fortune 100 Technology Customer at AZP-2 Data Center in Phoenix
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the storage and information management services company, today announced that it has signed two leases with an existing U.S. based Fortune 100 technology customer, at its AZP-2 data center in Phoenix, Arizona. The first lease represents a one megawatt expansion, which is expected to commence in the third quarter of 2021. The second lease was for a five megawatt deployment, which is expected to commence in the fourth quarter of 2021. Iron Mountain’s data center solutions met all of the customer’s requirements, including scalable capacity, network proximity to other deployments, and a design that provided flexibility and reliability.
AZP-2 is a hyperscale-ready data center powered by
Including land held for future development, the 40-acre Phoenix campus will support more than 100 megawatts of IT load when fully developed. The highly secure campus offers Iron Mountain data center customers access to reliable and energy efficient data center capacity in one of the lowest risk U.S. metros for natural disasters. The addition of this hyperscale lease complements Iron Mountain’s Phoenix data center campus that currently includes a wide range of core retail enterprise and hyperscale colocation customers.
“We are pleased to expand our support of one of the world's leading technology companies,” said Rick Crutchley, Vice President & General Manager, North America at Iron Mountain Data Centers. “We expect to continue our balanced leasing strategy, and will pursue the right hyperscale opportunities that complement our core retail colocation ecosystem.”
Additional highlights of the Phoenix data center campus include:
- Hyper-scale ready: provides the ability to scale in a campus environment with unmatched security and reliability
- Efficient hybrid-IT enablement: centralized access to hundreds of customers, clouds, carriers, and other IT services providers, making hybrid IT efficient, cost-effective and secure
- Network density: carrier-neutral campus with 24 native network providers, access to diverse meet-me rooms, and the ability to connect to multiple public-cloud on-ramps
- Support for multiple use cases: hyper-scale cloud node, hybrid-IT colocation, local production IT, local/regional business continuity/disaster recovery, and consolidation/migration
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Energy efficiency: powered by
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Operational excellence:
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Industry-leading compliance:
- SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3
- ISO 27001, 50001, and 140001
- HIPAA
- PCI-DSS
- FISMA High/NIST SP 800-53
Iron Mountain's global data center platform consists of 15 operational facilities across 13 markets and three continents. Including leasable capacity, land, and buildings held for future development, Iron Mountain's data center platform can support more than 375 megawatts of IT capacity at full build-out.
For more information on Iron Mountain Data Centers, visit https://www.ironmountain.com/data-centers.
About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), founded in 1951, is the global leader for storage and information management services. Trusted by more than 225,000 organizations around the world, and with a real estate network of nearly 93 million square feet across approximately 1,450 facilities in 56 countries, Iron Mountain stores and protects billions of valued assets, including critical business information, highly sensitive data, and cultural and historical artifacts. Providing solutions that include secure records storage, information management, digital transformation, secure destruction, as well as data centers, cloud services and art storage and logistics, Iron Mountain helps customers lower cost and risk, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and enable a more digital way of working. Visit www.ironmountain.com for more information.
Forward Looking Statements
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