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• 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.

• 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.

• Iron Mountain talks storage-as-a-service

  John Clancy is the president of Iron Mountain Digital, the arm of Iron Mountain that oversees storage services including remote archiving accessed by customers over the web. Clancy came on board from Connected Corporation after it was acquired by Iron Mountain in 2004, and became president of the Digital business unit in January 2007. Clancy has overseen several acquisitions, including a US$158 million (NZ$211 million) purchase last October of Stratify, which sells e-discovery services in the legal market. Clancy spoke with Network World senior writer Jon Brodkin.

• Encrypt data stored off-site, warns US state agency

  The loss of unencrypted storage media from an Iron Mountain vehicle last month renewed calls for IT managers to better protect data stored off-site.