- Iron Mountain, ClearDATA Partner with Google Healthcare Cloud
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When Iron Mountain opened its first building, VA-1, in September 2017, it invested nearly $100 million to establish a presence in Northern Virginia, the largest data center market in the world. Iron Mountain predicted it would put over $350 million into the campus.
Nearly 100 of Iron Mountain’s customers currently have office and storage space in VA-1, which is expected to double with the expansion of VA-2.
“In its PW County Campus, the Data Center leader has made space for data center customers to expand their footprint and provide office and storage space for more than 100 workers,” Christina Winn, executive director of Prince William County Economic Development Department, said in the announcement.
Trusted by more than 225,000 organizations around the world, and with a real estate network of more than 90 million square feet across more than 1,450 facilities in 50 countries, Iron Mountain offers solutions such as information management, digital transformation, secured storage, secured destruction, data centers, cloud services, and art storage and logistics.
In addition, Iron Mountain helps its customers to lower cost and risk, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and enable a digital way of working, the announcement stated. In addition, the company stores and protects valued assets such as important business information, highly sensitive data, and cultural and historical artifacts.
In healthcare specifically, the vendor helps provider organizations adopt an enterprise-wide, policy-driven approach to managing information, especially as providers move from fee-for-service to the data-rich world of value-based care. Providers can also leverage Iron Mountain offerings to create a strategy to support the lifecycle of healthcare information and enable more accurate and timely access to patient information, as well as more comprehensive care through integrated patient records.
Iron Mountain was one of the top healthcare cloud storage companies, according to a review of recent market reports. The vendor has also recently announced a partnership with Google Cloud to foster Software-as-a-Service solutions powered by artificial intelligence to give customers more complete access to their data repositories, a move that enabled data to be collected by connected medical devices.
Iron Mountain intends for its next move to support its growth as a information management and storage leader.
“We are excited to be expanding our presence in the largest data center market in the world, and at the same time continuing our commitment to economic development in the dynamic Prince William County,” said Mark Kidd, executive vice president and general manager of Iron Mountain Data Centers. “By developing additional capacity in Manassas, we will be able to continue to provide our customers with purpose-built, enterprise-class data center capacity to solve their evolving IT architecture challenges.”
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