Country gains data centers
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Iron Mountain, an information management company, has invested R$ 6 million (US$ 3.53 million) to build two data centers: one in Curitiba and the other in São Paulo. The initial goal was to cater to domestic customers, but it is considering the possibility of having companies of four other countries - Argentina, Chile, Peru and Mexico - use the premises as a contingency center, that is, a unit where customer data are stored as backup copies. For that to happen, internal issues are being studied for customers abroad to transfer data to Brazil. The definition of the strategy should happen by the end of the month, says the marketing and commercial officer of Iron Mountain, Rogério Abruzzini.
According to the Executive, the data center of Curitiba, which is already in operation, follows the standards used in the United States and Europe and it works at the same address that was used by Iron Mountain for digital and physical files. With the facilities, the company doubles the processing capacity, says Abruzzini. The data center of São Paulo should be ready by mid-April.
The American company landed in Curitiba in 2001 and it currently has 450 employees in the city. Today, Paraná accounts for 35% of the income of Iron Mountain in the country, behind São Paulo (55%). The expectation is that growth of the income in Brazil in 2011 be above 25%. Storage is responsible for 15% to 18% of the earnings. The rest comes from related services, such as document retrieval, scanning and microfilming. Iron Mountain operates in 39 countries and it registered earnings of US$ 3.1 billion last year.