Disaster Recovery Case Study

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Case Project 12-3 – Research Disaster Recovery Solutions
Justin W. Smith
Central Texas College
ITNW1358

Iron Mountain vs Amazon Web Services

What are the key features?
• Iron Mountain
Since 1951, Iron Mountain has been established as a disaster recovery solution for over six decades. Today, Iron Mountain specializes in tape and other physical backup solutions but in recent years has begun to push towards a Cloud DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a Service) platform to compete with competitors such as Amazon Web Services. Iron Mountain provides long term storage for physical and electronic records as well as providing a quick retrieval process in the event of data loss.
• Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services has been in production since …show more content…
PCI? SOX?
• Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain is compliant with HIPAA, ISO 27001, FISMA High, PCI-DSS 3.1, SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3, and ISO 50001. Iron Mountain has been in operation for over sixty years, providing data security and information assurance for Federal agencies, Fortune 1000 companies, healthcare, financial, and law firms (Iron Mountain, 2017).
• Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services is compliant with a multitude of regulatory agencies and standards across many countries. Including all of the accreditations listed above for Iron Mountain as well as DoD SRG, FIPS, FERPA, ITAR, and many more (Amazon, 2017).

Find reviews for both solutions. Summarize feedback from at least three customers about these …show more content…
Paying for the convenience of instantly accessing data in the event of data loss should be considered by businesses before subscribing to either AWS or Iron Mountain. According to Iron Mountain’s brochure, your information could be delivered to you in around three hours in a severe / critical situation. This is surprisingly fast for a physical backup restore, you’ll definitely pay high fees for this short-term retrieval of information. Referencing Spectralogic’s in-depth white paper comparing Iron Mountain to AWS, you’ll pay around $170.00 to retrieve 360TB of Tape backups from Iron Mountain in a critical trip (3 hour retrieval), compared to Amazon Web Services which apparently costs $18,000 for the same retrieval. An excerpt from Spectralogic’s review is listed below in regards to this data recovery difference in pricing: “Another important consideration in cloud data retrieval is the cost associated with accessing your data. When using a public cloud such as Amazon Glacier, you don’t actually own your data but rather rent it from Amazon. If you need it back, you have to pay them for it. Data that costs less than half a cent per GB to store will cost 5 cents per GB to retrieve. You have to pay a 1,000% increase on your storage costs to recall that data.” (Spectralogic, 2017). This is assuming that businesses experience a full loss of data in excess of dozens or hundreds of

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