The Active Archive Alliance is a collaborative industry alliance formed to educate end user organizations on the evolving new technologies that enable reliable, online and efficient access to their archived data.
As data creation, data storage and data access requirements continue to grow and evolve, organizations are struggling to meet internal business requirements and externally imposed regulations. No single vendor has the complete product set or resources to solve today’s data access demands. The Active Archive Alliance was formed as the data storage industry is in need of a multi-vendor effort to:
1) Ensure inter-compatibility
2) Define best practices
3) Educate users, resellers and the press community on new trends and technologies that help organizations meet the myriad of data access and retention requirements imposed upon them.
The Active Archive Alliance was launched on April 27, 2010.
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The goal of the Active Archive Alliance is to align the education and technologies needed to meet the rapidly evolving requirements for data archive. As stated earlier, the goals of this Alliance for end users is to ensure inter-compatibility, recommend best practices and educate.
The anticipated outcome for Alliance members is to extend solutions, previously available primarily to a limited portion of the high-end Supercomputing and Broadcast markets, to the more broad vertical market and general IT audience that are in need of online data archive options.