Iron Mountain punts subterranean data storage

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Anonymous Coward

You might also... #

Posted Wednesday 4th March 2009 10:14 GMT

...want to make sure the bills have been paid, coz if they aren't, due to muppetry somewhere in The System, Iron Maiden will cut off your service without warning.

Guess how we know this.

Anonymous Coward

Not to mention #

Posted Wednesday 4th March 2009 10:14 GMT

When you do a supprise visit you find warehouses full of dust and your company tapes in cardboard boxes (when you exclusively use Turtle crates.)

That warehouse they allowed to burn down in (IIRC) the East End of london.

Employees that can't understand, no matter how many times you tell them, that your software outputs in American Date format. When you question why your libraries are half empty, it turns out that they were intending to return tapes on the UK date format dates, with no checking that there aren't more than 12 months in a year...

Anon for obvious reasons...

Anonymous Coward

This project is totally #

Posted Wednesday 4th March 2009 10:27 GMT

blowing my mind. A cloud. Stored underground. Wow. Is that fog?

amanfromMars

More like Mother Hubbard's cupboard.... #

Posted Wednesday 4th March 2009 10:46 GMT

"This project is totally blowing my mind. A cloud. Stored underground. Wow. Is that fog?" .... By Anonymous Coward Posted Wednesday 4th March 2009 10:16 GMT

No, AC, it is not. It is FUD.

Charlie Barnes

Well... #

Posted Wednesday 4th March 2009 12:06 GMT

"...want to make sure the bills have been paid, coz if they aren't, due to muppetry somewhere in The System, Iron Maiden will cut off your service without warning."

You get what you pay for. Oh wait you didn't. Pay that is.

Anonymous Coward

Just hope... #

Posted Wednesday 4th March 2009 13:03 GMT

they have a good fire detection system...

Two of their warehouses went up in smoke in 2007 - yes AC, one in East London and the other in Canada

Yorkshirepudding

Ummmm #

Posted Wednesday 4th March 2009 13:11 GMT

salt mines in cheshire? closer to home? anyone?

Anonymous Coward

@AC #

Posted Wednesday 4th March 2009 13:24 GMT

They did have a good fire protection system, they just left it switched off...

Anonymous Coward

@AC #

Posted Wednesday 4th March 2009 14:06 GMT

"They did have a good fire protection system, they just left it switched off..."

Silly me. of course they did.

And of course the rumours that some VERY important paperwork (contrary to statements at the time) went up in smoke are totally unfounded...

4irw4y

Hot Wet Cloud Vision #

Posted Wednesday 4th March 2009 15:07 GMT

"It is FUD" -

Anyone're from Scotland? (-:

Anonymous Coward

Hole in the ground #

Posted Thursday 5th March 2009 00:33 GMT

Anyone tried retrieving physical documents out of Iron Mountain? I'm convinced their "secured holes in the ground" are in fact "land fills"

Anonymous Coward

@Charlie Barnes #

Posted Thursday 5th March 2009 10:26 GMT

It may be a little old-fashioned to expect a company to send a reminder about unpaid bills before suspending the service, but if BT, British Gas, Thames Water et al can manage it, I fail to see why Iron Maiedn can't do likewise.

Anonymous Coward

what shoddy reporting and poor reasoning! #

Posted Thursday 5th March 2009 14:13 GMT

1. "650,00 customer records lost": what on earth does this number mean?

2. This is an apples and oranges argument if I ever heard one. What does physically transporting a tape in a truck from a customer site to a storage facility have to do with storing electronic data in a data center online? This is like saying that, because the mail is sometimes slow, paying my bills online will be slow also. I mean, huh?

3. If you expect perfection from any vendor, I think you're going to be disappointed. Yes, a few items are lost occasionally. But out of how many transactions? Millions? Tens of millions? Hundreds of millions? The Register doesn't report that part, but that's the kind of real information IT needs to make good decisions.

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