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Iron Mountain buys Mimosa Systems

By | February 22, 2010, 6:34am PST

Summary: Iron Mountain is picking up Mimosa Systems in a deal worth $112 million.

Iron Mountain said Monday that it is picking up Mimosa Systems in a deal worth $112 million.

Mimosa specializes in enterprise content archiving systems. Iron Mountain focuses on data archiving, e-discovery and information management.

According to the companies, the plan is to use Mimosa’s NearPoint software, which operates inside the corporate firewall to archive SharePoint data and files, to create a suite of information management services.

Iron Mountain is building a on-site and cloud-based portfolio to manage information to the point where it is destroyed.

Mimosa Systems CEO T.M. Ravi will become chief marketing officer for Iron Mountain Digital.

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We used to use Iron Mountain, but their pricing started to get out of hand. We now backup to Barracuda at less than 1/10th the cost per month.

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