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• AirTrunk appoints inaugural COO

  ​AirTrunk – the hyperscale data centre company which opened its flagship 80 megawatt Sydney site in September last year – has appointed its inaugural chief operations officer.

• Wearables and company wellness programs go hand-in-hand

  Welcome to the employee wellness program at Iron Mountain, dubbed LiveWell.

• 150 years after Lincoln assassination, massive online archive goes live

  As the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination approaches, a massive online archive has gone live containing 99,525 documents related to the Civil War-era commander-in-chief.

• Iron Mountain fire in Buenos Aires kills 9, destroys corporate records

  A massive fire at Iron Mountain's Buenos Aires archive facility caused a wall to collapse on nine firefighters, killing them; seven others were injured.

• NetApp, Iron Mountain team up on medical archive service

  Iron Mountain <a href="http://www.ironmountain.com/Company/Company-News/News-Categories/Press-Releases/2011/November/28.aspx">today announced</a> a secure cloud-based archive service for medical data based on NetApp's grid-architecture, object-based, storage software.

• Big firms shunning public cloud storage: Survey

  Only 10 per cent of large corporations are considering the public cloud as a place to store even their lowest tier of data for archive purposes, according to a survey by TheInfoPro, a market research firm.

• Iron Mountain going back to roots in storage services

  A week after Iron Mountain announced it had replaced its CEO, the company said it's considering selling its archiving, e-discovery and online backup and recovery business to return to its roots in document and tape storage services.

• Report: Iron Mountain to shutter cloud storage service

  After only two years, Iron Mountain is planning to close its public cloud storage services , having already stopped accepting new customers as of April 1, according to market research firm Gartner.

• JFK Library opens largest online digitized presidential archive

  Marking the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, the JFK Library Foundation on Thursday unveiled the nation's largest online digitized presidential archive, providing access to papers, records, photographs and recordings of the 35th president's thousand days in office.

• F5 gets more cloud-friendly

  F5 is making file virtualization more cloud friendly with the introduction of software that translates storage protocols, making it possible to store files in public or private cloud networks using a range of technologies.

• Iron Mountain buys archiving vendor Mimosa

  Information management giant Iron Mountain said Monday it has acquired content archiving vendor Mimosa Systems for US$112 million.