Oct. 14, 2009 (Business Wire) -- Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the global leader in information protection and storage services, today announced that it is extending its industry-leading Archive Services Platform to application providers, including corporate developers and independent software vendors (ISVs), so that they may offer cloud storage with their applications. Through the new Iron Mountain Developer Program, the Company will offer developers the tools and resources necessary to integrate Iron Mountain’s secure enterprise-class cloud archiving services.

Developers can now leverage the security and scalability of Iron Mountain’s Storage-as-a-Service model to allow their users to reduce the risk, cost and complexity of managing their digital information. This is the first time the Company has extended its enterprise archiving platform to outside application developers, and beyond its own backup and archive solutions.

The Developer Program offers application developers seamless integration with Iron Mountain’s Archive Services Platform through an application programming interface (API) that provides secure, off-site long-term data storage for data-intensive applications, as well as advanced indexing, search and retrieval capabilities and retention and destruction functionality.

“The cloud is bursting with companies eager to deliver storage services to business customers. Success will require a lot more than a simple API and a bucket of storage on the remote end of a wire,” said Jeff Boles, senior analyst and director of validation services for the Taneja Group. “With this in mind, Iron Mountain realizes they have a distinct advantage when it comes to serving up storage in the cloud, and we see them steadily marching forward in weaving all of their digital information management and service capabilities together into a rich service that is well aligned to the needs of the business.”

Upon joining Iron Mountain’s Developer Program, application providers can take advantage of the Company’s Archive Services Platform API to meet end users’ challenges when it comes to storing and protecting the large amounts of data generated by their applications.