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Iron Mountain expands digital footprint
~Sales manager appointed for Nordics region, Northern European hub established due to rapid team growth~
29th March 2006 – Iron Mountain Digital, the technology business unit of Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) has announced expansion plans for its Northern European territory.
The Digital team has grown by 250 per cent, including the appointment of pre-sales and support staff across the region. A significant appointment is Ken Yearwood as sales manager for the Nordics region. Yearwood will be responsible for promoting Iron Mountain‘s technology products and services across Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. Having held senior business development positions at Netbox and Brocade, Yearwood has excellent experience in the data storage industry, and has had substantial success in developing new business channels in new markets throughout his career.
The expanded team will be based in Theale, Reading; forming a hub for sales activity in the region and the development of direct and indirect channels to market. This added sales capability supports the organic growth already established, but also enables the promotion of all of the organisation’s existing comprehensive data protection solutions, which include:
- Electronic Vaulting: Iron Mountain’s award-winning software and managed online data backup and recovery services to protect at-risk, distributed data stored on PCs and remote servers; the services include market-leading Connected DataProtector/PC and LiveVault Server Backup
- Media Vaulting: Iron Mountain offers off-site vaulting of backup media in state-of-the-art facilities that keeps data off-site, off-line and out-of-reach, yet available when needed for data recovery
- Disaster Recovery Readiness: With tailored disaster recovery plans and disaster readiness tests, Iron Mountain helps businesses prepare for the unexpected and stay ready to recover their data and resume business immediately should disaster strike.
"The growth of the team has been phenomenal in the past six months, but also an essential strategy to ensure we meet our ambitious targets for 2006," said Nick Cater, general manager, Northern Europe. "Market drivers such as compliance regulations are driving the growth of data protection and backup. Because of this, Iron Mountain Digital is one of the fastest growing business units in Iron Mountain. Our new office provides a base for the pre-sales and sales teams and a firm foundation for future growth."
