FUJIFILM

Active Archive Product Categories:
Tape media, archival software

Active Archive Products:
LTO Ultrium Data Storage Media

FUJIFILM North America Corp., Data Storage Solutions is FUJIFILM Corporation’s US-based distribution, marketing and sales operation for data storage tape media. The company provides data center customers and enterprise industry partners with a wide range of innovative products and solutions. Based on a history of thin-film engineering and magnetic particle science such as Fujifilm’s NANOCUBIC™ and Barium Ferrite technology, Fujifilm creates breakthrough data storage products. Worldwide, Fujifilm has surpassed the 170 million milestone for the number of LTO Ultrium data cartridges manufactured and sold since its introduction, establishing the company as the leading global manufacturer of mid-range and enterprise data tape. For more information on FUJIFILM Data Storage Solutions, go to https://www.fujifilm.com/us/en/business/data-storage.

Resources:
TCO Tool: Tape vs. Disk and Cloud TCO Calculator
Whitepaper: Reducing Energy Consumption and Carbon Emissions with Tape
Whitepaper: Tape Has Become Strategic Imperative in Mass Storage

MediQuant

Active Archive Product Categories:
Application/Software

Active Archive Products:
DataArk

Founded in 1999, and headquartered just south of Cleveland, in Brecksville, Ohio, MediQuant’s industry-leading data archiving solutions and comprehensive system transition data management services help healthcare organizations liberate their data from legacy clinical, financial and ERP systems. Available as a cloud-based platform, MediQuant’s flagship active archive platform, DataArk® offers the functionality of legacy clinical, patient accounting or ERP system but without the security risks and the expense of operating both new and legacy systems in parallel – an up to 80 percent annual savings. In DataArk, users quickly retrieve files, easily update old records, move documents (without vendor support) and continue billing activity, working down their Accounts Receivable and healthcare organizations may decommission old systems. Through its consultative, strategic, data stewardship approach to data extraction, conversion and archiving, MediQuant partners with nearly 300 individual health systems comprising more than 1,100 hospital and physician practice customers. Learn more at MediQuant.com

Resources:
Case Study: Yale New Haven Health
Podcast: Exploring Legacy Data
White Paper: Discrete vs. Non-Discrete Data

Arcitecta

BDT Media Automation GmbH

Cerabyte

IBM

Active Archive Product Categories:
Software/Hardware

Active Archive Products:
IBM Spectrum Scale
IBM Spectrum Archive
IBM Spectrum Protect
IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS)
IBM HPSS
IBM Tape Libraries: TS2900, TS4300, TS4500

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is a technology company. The Company operates through five segments: Cognitive Solutions, Global Business Services (GBS), Technology Services & Cloud Platforms, Systems and Global Financing. The Cognitive Solutions segment delivers a spectrum of capabilities, from descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics to cognitive systems. Cognitive Solutions includes Watson, a cognitive computing platform that has the ability to interact in natural language, process big data, and learn from interactions with people and computers. The GBS segment provides clients with consulting, application management services and global process services. The Technology Services & Cloud Platforms segment provides information technology infrastructure services. The Systems segment provides clients with infrastructure technologies. The Global Financing segment includes client financing, commercial financing, and remanufacturing and remarketing. For more information, visit https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/storage/tape or https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/cloud-object-storage-system.

Resources:
IBM Spectrum Archive
IBM Tape Storage
IBM Cloud Object Storage System
IBM HPSS Collaboration

Iron Mountain

Active Archive Product Categories:
Tape hardware (restoration and migration services)

Active Archive Products:
Tape Vaulting/Storage, Data Restoration and Migration

Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), founded in 1951, is the global leader for storage and information management services. Trusted by more than 225,000 organizations around the world, and with a real estate network of more than 90 million square feet across more than 1,450 facilities in approximately 50 countries, Iron Mountain stores and protects billions of valued assets, including critical business information, highly sensitive data, and cultural and historical artifacts. Providing solutions that include information management, digital transformation, secure storage, secure destruction, as well as data centers, cloud services and art storage and logistics, Iron Mountain helps customers lower cost and risk, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and enable a digital way of working. Visit http://www.ironmountain.com for more information.

Resources:
White Paper: Put Data In Its Place
Video: How a Multi-Tier Data Storage Strategy Can Cut Costs, Simplify Operations and Improve Security 
Blog: Is Your Data Ready to Fulfill the Promise of AI?
Blog: 4 Ways to Prevent Ransomware

MagStor

Resources:
PetaByte Machine M3640
NanoPure Media Whitepaper
ePro 10G Family Data Sheet
Data Migration Services

PoINT Software & Systems GmbH

Active Archive Product Categories:
Application/Software

Active Archive Products:
PoINT Storage Manager
PoINT Archival Gateway
PoINT Data Replicator

PoINT Software & Systems is specialized in the development and distribution of software products for storage, management and long-term archiving of data using all available storage technologies like hard disks/flash, magnetic tapes, optical media, object and cloud storage. PoINT products allow efficient usage of storage systems and help to reduce costs and issues caused by data growth. The software products fulfill compliance and archiving requirements and provide independence from storage technologies and vendors. PoINTStorage Manager is a data and storage management software for migration and archiving of unstructured data in a tiered storage architecture. PoINT Archival Gateway is a tape-based S3 object storage. The software solution stores and manages huge amounts of data on tape libraries. For more information visit: www.point.de.

Resources:
Data Sheet: PoINT Archival Gateway S3-to-Tape
Data Sheet: PoINT Storage Manager Enterprise Edition
Data Sheet: PoINT Data Replicator File and Object Replication to S3 Storage
Case Study: PoINT Archival Gateway in use for the Cristie GREEN S3 Cloud

S2|DATA

Active Archive Product Categories:
Application/Software/Hardware

Active Archive Products:
Intelligent Tape Archive™

S2|DATA offers a comprehensive suite of active archive solutions, known collectively as the Intelligent Tape Archive™. Driven by our proprietary software, Invenire, the world’s most advanced metadata review tool, and TRACS, a tape restoration tool capable of accessing virtually any media, in any format, anywhere in the world, The Intelligent Tape Archive combines the heightened security of our High Availability Vault (HAV) with the speed and versatility of the cloud.

With an active data compression factor of 1,000:1 (or more) and the ability to provide insight on demand, The Intelligent Tape Archive is a unique suite of software, hardware and physical security that delivers unmatched data intelligence and faster time-to-data while eliminating cost and risk. From this perspective, The Intelligent Tape Archive from S2|DATA is the most powerful and efficient active archive solution in the industry. For more information, visit https://s2data.com/

Resources:
Video: The Intelligent Tape Archive
Case Study: TRACS
White Paper: The Future of Legacy Data
Blog: What Happens to Your Data When a Departing Employee Leaves?

Savartus

Spectra Logic

Active Archive Product Categories:
Software and Hardware

Active Archive Products:
BlackPearl® S3 Object Storage
StorCycle® Archiving Software
Spectra® Tape Libraries

Spectra Logic modernizes IT infrastructures to preserve, protect and defend data from days to decades, whether on-premises, in a single cloud, across multiple clouds or in all locations at once. Our cost-effective solutions help organizations efficiently manage, migrate and store long-term data, from terabytes to exabytes, with features that make it ransomware resilient. To learn more about Spectra solutions, visit www.spectralogic.com.

Resources:
Blog: Modern Day Archiving: Clay Tablets to Digital Preservation
Blog: Redefining Data Archiving: What Are Bulk, Project and Active Archives?
Case Study: The British Film Institute
Case Study: CAM Productions International (CPI)

Wasabi Technologies

Active Archive Product Categories:
Application/Software

Active Archive Products:
Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage
Wasabi AiR Intelligent Media Storage

Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage provides predictably priced cloud storage, allowing organizations to affordably archive their media while ensuring instant accessibility. With Wasabi, companies gain the freedom to use their data without being hit with unpredictable fees or vendor lock-in. Wasabi AiR Intelligent Media Storage combines our high-performance hot cloud storage with AI-powered metadata auto-tagging enabling organizations to easily find and access content, opening new possibilities for archived assets. For more information, visit www.wasabi.com.

Resources:
Products Overview: Wasabi Technologies
Case Study: University of Hull
Case Study: Liverpool Football
Ebook: Active Archive Strategies for the Media & Entertainment Industry

Western Digital

Active Archive Product Categories:
Hardware/Software

Active Archive Products:
ActiveScale™ Cloud Object Systems

Western Digital Corporation is an industry-leading provider of data storage technologies and solutions that enable people to create, leverage, experience and preserve data. The Data Center Systems business unit delivers storage systems and platforms that provide the building blocks for efficiency and reliability for today’s enterprise and cloud workloads, including petabyte-scale content repositories, big data analytics, virtualization and application acceleration. The portfolio features ActiveScale™ Cloud Object Systems which deliver extreme performance, massive capacity and immediate access to information. For more information, visit www.wdc.com/dc-systems.

Resources:
Data Center Platforms
Solution Brief: Protect More Data for Less
Solution Brief: Highly Effective Data Protection Doesn’t Have to Be Expensive
Case Study: CTB Film Company Improves Content Production and Simplifies Archive Storage

XenData

Active Archive Product Categories:
Software/Hardware

Active Archive Products:
X-Series Archive Appliances, XenData Cloud File Gateway Software

XenData is a global provider of data storage solutions optimized for creative video, medical imaging, video surveillance and other applications that require very high capacity file storage. With installations in over 90 countries, its active archives are relied upon by many leading media companies, major archives, large corporations and governmental organizations. XenData archive systems provide secure long-term storage on LTO data tape, optical disc cartridges and/or the cloud object storage. To learn more, visit www.xendata.com.

Resources:
XenData Announces the X100, an Active Archive that Scales to 100+ PB
XenData LTO Active Archives
Case Study: National Electoral Institute of Mexico
Case Study: RTV Slovenia Archive Digitization Project