NEC Selects Iron Mountain As Primary Data Center Provider
Iron Mountain’s highly-secure western Pennsylvania data center delivers compliance support, security, reliability, and Federal-ready environment for NEC’s private cloud service.
Iron Mountain Incorporated® has announced NEC Corporation of America, a leading technology integrator of advanced IT, communications and networking solutions, has selected Iron Mountain’s highly-secure underground western Pennsylvania data center (WPA-1) as the primary colocation provider for its SAP HANA® private cloud and operations service. NEC chose Iron Mountain’s location for its comprehensive compliance support and security, federal-ready services, energy efficiency, data center marketplace, and cloud services provider neutrality.
SAP HANA is an in-memory platform designed to make the processing of large data volumes faster and more efficient. NEC engineers delivered an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) blueprint specifically designed to address the resource-intensive needs of SAP HANA and provide a turnkey service to enterprise clients and reseller partners. The selection of a secure data center from Iron Mountain helped NEC achieve SAP-Certified Provider status, attained only through SAP validation of service management processes, security measures, facilities setup, operations experience, and staff; in particular, WPA-1’s reliability was crucial in architecting a solution that featured maximum availability of SAP HANA mission-critical data.