View from the top: Andrea Kalas, Vice President, Iron Mountain Media and Archival Services.
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View from the top: Andrea Kalas, Vice President, Iron Mountain Media and Archival Services. There's far more to modern media archiving than just backing up content off aging media, as Andrea Kalas, Vice President, Iron Mountain Media and Archival Services, shares. Published: 04/30/2026 The team at Iron Mountain's Media & Archival Services division catalogs and preserves some of the best-known archives in the world - films, recordings, artwork, physical items and far more - and overseeing the professionals that care for those collections is no simple task. It requires someone who understands not only managing people but also the value and critical nature of archiving itself - and that person is Andrea Kalas, vice president, Iron Mountain Media and Archival Services. Having started out in film preservation, conservation and restoration at Paramount Pictures and the British Film Institute, Kalas sees herself as the archivists' advocate, extolling the passion and determination that her teams bring to their work: "They understand both the rigor of managing collections with accuracy and care, as well as why it's important. That dual perspective is something I carry with me every day. It helps me champion the value of preservation within Iron Mountain and ensures our organization never loses sight of the human, cultural and creative impact behind the assets we protect. My...
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Faced with sifting through countless items, Iron Mountain has developed custom AI-powered machinery like the Archive Explorer solution to ascertain and ingest metadata derived from tape boxes, film reels and the like.
