Mountain-Encased RIM Company Starts Datavaulting Service
Jane Martinsons, PRISM International staff writer
After 46 years of storing digital and microform data, Perpetual Storage Inc. (PSI), located within a granite mountain near Salt Lake City, UT, recently started a new datavaulting service to meet customers’ growing need for cloud storage.
“People are going to the cloud for their online processing environments,” said Patrick Lynch, co-owner of PSI. “Some, though not all, are also taking disaster recovery (DR) and backup out of permanent physical storage and putting it into the cloud.”
Lynch said that over the past 5 years, customers have continued to store tier two and three data—DR, backup, and archival data—in its maximum-security vault. But with mounting demand for cloud-based solutions, PSI upgraded its vault with specialized grounded flooring, specialized air- conditioning, fire suppression, cabinets on seismic isolation plates, and uninterruptable power supply systems. PSI also upgraded its infrastructure with fiber-optic connectivity and additional back-up power.
The vault eventually will house 250 server racks, said
Lynch, who will speak at the 2014 PRISM International Data Protection conference in September in Rosemont, IL.
The initial cost of these changes, which included pulling in fiber to the remote mountain site, hovers around $300,000. When complete, the entire three-phase project will cost another $2.5 million, said Lynch, who predicts a return-on- investment only 2 years after that.
“It is a pretty decent business model,” he said. “Once we prove
to people, including bankers, that our ideas work, then they will be able to fund the build-out of the next phases. Already, we have commitments and interest from a sizable number of our existing clients, which cut across various industries, such as healthcare, manufacturing, and financial services.”
PSI plans to expand its primary client base beyond its state border to the entire Mountain West region, and then eventually across the country and abroad. To do that, PSI’s
Perpetual Storage Inc. will eventually house 250 server racks, co-owner Patrick Lynch said.
marketing strategy requires all of its vendors or managed service providers (MSPs) to not only provide PSI their services—whether fiber-optic communication, disk or tape backup, or deduplication equipment—but also to promote PSI product and service offerings to their own clients as well.
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Perpetual Storage’s maximum-security vault facility is inside a granite mountain near Salt Lake City, UT. 6 PRISM International
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