Iron Mountain Named 2026 Google Cloud Partner of the Year, Business Applications: Media & Entertainment

PORTSMOUTH, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 21, 2026--

Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM), a global leader in information management services, has been named 2026 Google Cloud Partner of the Year, Business Applications: Media & Entertainment. This prestigious award recognizes partners that build innovative solutions on Google Cloud to solve complex business challenges and drive significant industry impact.

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Iron Mountain combines its archival and preservation expertise, cutting-edge AI content and discovery technology, and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI and Vision Warehouse to unlock the value of over 100 million media assets. The company helps major music studios, record labels, broadcasters, and sports teams solve the "trilemma" of security, accessibility, and monetization. By digitizing "at-risk" legacy formats and securing them in geo-redundant Google Cloud digital vaults, media and entertainment customers can immediately leverage their archives for brand storytelling and licensing.

Mithu Bhargava, Executive Vice President, Digital Solutions at Iron Mountain, said: "This award reinforces Iron Mountain’s commitment to helping industries navigate the digital frontier. Our physical preservation experience and Google Cloud’s AI scalability helps ensure the stories of our time are safe, searchable, and ready for the world."

“The Google Cloud Partner Awards honor the strategic innovation and measurable value our partners bring to customers,” saidKevin Ichhpurani, President, Global Partner Ecosystem and Channels, Google Cloud. “We are proud to name Iron Mountain a 2026 Google Cloud Partner Award winner, celebrating their role in driving customer success over the last year.”

Iron Mountain InSight ® DXP is an AI-powered intelligent content platform capable of managing complex 4K/8K video and multi-track audio files that generic storage solutions cannot handle effectively. The new InSight DXP AI Agent allows users to interact with managed content libraries using natural language, while maintaining strict records management and compliance standards.

The McLaren Mastercard Formula 1 Team has trusted Iron Mountain to help protect and activate its 60-year legacy. This includes digitizing decades of archives - from blueprints to film footage - to increase fan engagement and provide future insights. Fans can experience McLaren’s heritage and racing story at an immersive event in Miami from April 29th to May 3rd, supported by Iron Mountain, Google and many of McLaren’s other partners.

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About Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) is trusted by more than 240,000 customers in 61 countries, including approximately 95% of the Fortune 1000, to help unlock value and intelligence from their assets through services that transcend the physical and digital worlds. Our broad range of solutions address their information management, digital transformation, information security, data center and asset lifecycle management needs. Our longstanding commitment to safety, security, sustainability and innovation in support of our customers underpins everything we do.

To learn more about Iron Mountain, please visit www.IronMountain.com.

Iron Mountain combines its archival and preservation expertise, cutting-edge AI content and discovery technology, and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI and Vision Warehouse to unlock the value of over 100 million media assets.

NEW YORK (AP) — The man who recently pleaded guilty to New York's Gilgo Beach serial murders told his ex-wife while in jail that he killed most of his female victims in the basement of the family’s dilapidated home, the latest episode of an NBC documentary series shows.

His ex-wife, Asa Ellerup, said in a teaser for the episode airing Thursday that Rex Heuermann also told her that the eight women he has admitted to killing were his only victims.

Ellerup says later in the teaser that he told her that he killed seven of them in the basement of the family's house in Massapequa Park on Long Island while she was away.

“I said to him, ‘So Mr. Heuermann, I understand that you are confessing to me on these murders. Can you please tell me how many of these women did you kill’?,” she said in the 90-second clip. “He said, ‘Eight’.”

Ellerup said she intentionally didn’t use her former husband’s first name as a way to “put a wall up” between the two.

“When he started talking, it started feeling like that’s the Rex I know,” she said. “But I didn’t want to see that one. I wanted to see the one I needed to see.”

The latest and last installment of “The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets” will be available on NBC’s streaming service Peacock. Another documentary, “Killing Grounds: The Gilgo Beach Murders,” also comes out Wednesday on Amazon's streaming service, Prime Video.

Ellerup's attorney, Robert Macedonio, declined to discuss what other new details are revealed in the new episode of the Peacock documentary, the first three episodes of which aired last June.

“This has been an extremely emotional and painful process for the family to endure and come to terms with the allegations that Rex Heuermann was the Gilgo Beach serial killer,” he said in an email. “Ms. Ellerup would like the focus to remain where it belongs — on the victims and their families, who have suffered immeasurable and lasting losses.”

Vess Mitev, a lawyer for the couple's two grown children, Victoria and Chris, said the two “echo the sentiments of their mother, and wish only to move forward as best they can, given this remarkably dark chapter in their lives.”

Heuermann’s lawyers didn’t respond to an email seeking comment.

Earlier episodes of the documentary showed the family struggling to reconcile their memories of the architect, who had an office in Manhattan, with the portrait of the killer described by authorities.

Ellerup, who divorced Heuermann after his arrest in 2023, steadfastly defended her ex-husband’s innocence during those earlier episodes. But her daughter eventually conceded her father “most likely” committed the brutal killings that bedeviled investigators and drew intense interest from true-crime watchers for years.

The saga came to a close earlier this month when Heuermann, 62, of Massapequa Park, admitted in Riverhead court to murdering seven women and also killing an eighth he had not yet been charged with over a 17-year span.

Heuermann said in court he strangled the women, many of them sex workers, and dismembered some of their bodies before dumping them on a desolate parkway not far from Long Island's Gilgo Beach, some 50 miles (80 kilometers) from Manhattan.

He’ll be sentenced in June to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

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