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Jeremy Suratt Jeremy Suratt
Jeremy joined Iron Mountain in 2011 as the solutions marketing manager for Data Backup and Recovery Services. In this role, he is responsible for evangelizing the need for secure and reliable offsite data protection, restoration, and escrow services. Jeremy has 15 years of experience in product management, product marketing and development at leading software and services companies. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Tufts University. When he’s not at work or playing LEGOs with his twin boys and daughter, you might find him training for his favorite road race,
Reach the Beach
, a 200 mile relay race across New Hampshire.
Attention History Buffs: CyArk’s and Iron Mountain’s Webcast Discusses the Digital Preservation of Heritage Sites

There comes a point when you start to think about the legacy that you’ll leave behind. I find myself reflecting on this more and more now that I have a family. Recently I had the opportunity to meet someone whose concerns for the future benefit us all – Tom Greaves, [...]


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An Interview with CyArk’s Managing Director Tom Greaves

In early April, I had the privilege of spending a few days with Tom Greaves, managing director at CyArk, at the Storage Network World conference in Orlando.  CyArk is a non-profit organization with the mission of digitally preserving world’s heritage sites using 3D laser scanning and other advanced technologies.  Iron [...]


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When Your Offsite Storage Strategy Calls For Cloud

In my recent blogs, I’ve talked a lot about tape, and how it continues to provide a highly effective, reliable and affordable way of meeting your backup, recovery and archival requirements. But there are situations where you might want to consider applying cloud-based technologies. 1. When you need to retrieve [...]


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How Sgt. Joe Friday And A Little Detective Work Can Improve Your Offsite Data Protection Strategy

How well do you know your data? As you’re evaluating the best way to backup and protect growing volumes of critical data, it helps to do some real detective work. You need to track down the right technology to match the profile of your data. Otherwise, you could be implementing [...]


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Why Your Offsite Data Protection Strategy Could Be Giving Santa A Chill

It’s almost Christmas and you’ve got some six petabytes of data to move to your offsite storage location. If you work over the holidays one more time, you might want to spare Grandma and throw yourself in front of the reindeer. So, what are your options? Option 1: Move it [...]


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