About Active Archive Alliance
The Problem: Difficulty managing and accessing data
Challenges:
- Access and management of data throughout its life cycle is getting more complex
- Data is growing exponentially and value of data is unpredictable
- Data growth and cost to manage is outpacing IT budgets
- Critical data needs to be rapidly available, secure and intact
The Solution: Active Archive
- An active archive enables efficient access to data throughout its life
- Active archives are compatible with flash, disk, tape, or cloud (public or private) block or object storage systems
- They help move data to the appropriate storage tiers to minimize cost while maintaining ease of user accessibility
Benefits of an Active Archive Include
Simple:
- Automated, policy-based migration to free up primary storage as data ages, to simplify data life cycle management.
- Data is retrievable and searchable directly by end users regardless of
where it’s stored. - Compatible with flash, disk, tape, or cloud (public or private), file, block or object storage systems
Scalable:
- Effectively manage data from terabytes to Exabytes across multiple storage tiers without adding complexity.
- Seamlessly add new storage capacity or technologies for future growth and new use cases.
- Data resiliency over time is the goal vs. data protection alone.
Cost Efficient:
- Ability to automatically align data class with storage type and SLA requirements reduces TCO.
- Optimize IT infrastructure to address data at all phases of it’s life cycle without added cost or complexity.
- Frequency of access or policy determines storage tier, reducing reliance on costly primary storage
- Removes fixed data from backup set to achieve greater efficiency and cost savings.
Reliable:
- Leverage the flexibility of any storage type whether the data is on premise, off premise, online or offline.
- Diversity of storage ensures access and eliminates risk of data loss or cyber attack.
- Provides ability to fulfill regulatory compliance and/or internal data retention policy requirements.
AAA Board of Directors
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Eric Polet, Arcitecta
Eric Polet is Arcitecta’s Director of Product Marketing, leading the company’s marketing and awareness-building of its flagship product, Mediaflux – an advanced, comprehensive data management platform that can operate on a massive scale to help organizations better manage their data throughout its entire lifecycle. He has more than eleven years of data storage industry experience, with a focus on secondary storage and applications such as backup, archive and disaster recovery. Previously, he served as Product Marketing Manager at Spectra Logic, where he developed strategic product positioning and messaging to differentiate the company’s solutions in the market.
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Rich Gadomski, FUJIFILM Recording Media U.S.A., Inc.
As Head of Tape Evangelism for FUJIFILM Recording Media U.S.A., Inc., Rich is responsible for driving industry awareness and end user understanding of the purpose and value proposition of modern tape technology. Rich joined Fujifilm in 2003 as Director of Product Management, Computer Products Division, where he oversaw marketing of optical, magnetic, and flash storage products. Previously Rich held the position of Vice President of Marketing, Commercial Products, where he was responsible for the marketing of data storage products, value added services and solutions.
Rich has more than 29 years of experience in the data storage industry. Before joining Fujifilm, Rich was Director of Marketing for Maxell Corp. of America where he was responsible for the marketing of data storage products. Prior to that, Rich worked for the Recording Media Products Division of Sony Electronics. Rich participates in several industry trade associations including the Active Archive Alliance, the Linear Tape-Open Consortium (LTO) and the Tape Storage Council. Rich also manages Fujifilm’s annual Global IT Executive Summit.
Rich holds a BA from the University of Richmond and an MBA from Fordham University.
