Active Archive Blog
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2021 Data Storage and Active Archive Predictions and Trends
Members of the Active Archive Alliance recently shared their 2021 predictions for data storage and active archives. Here are some of the top trends to watch: Active Archive Requirements to Scale from Terabytes to Petabytes Enterprises continue to create data... -
4 Ways to Deal with Unstructured Data
How to deal with unstructured data: It’s a problem that’s becoming more urgent every day. The amount of data that organizations generate is expected to more than quintuple over the next five years, according to an IDC report shared by... -
Why are Two Thirds of Organizations Failing to Backup and Archive Correctly?
You would think, by now, that backup best practices would have moved into the same category as filling up the tank before a long drive or looking each way before crossing the street. But a new study indicates that most... -
A New Age Dawns for Digital Archives: 2020 State of Industry Report
We recently released our 2020 Active Archive and the State of the Industry Report, which highlights the increased demand for new data management strategies as well as benefits and use cases for active archive solutions. Here are a few takeaways from... -
Backup Less, Archive First
The Active Archive Alliance turns 10 years old this year. As a founding partner, QStar Technologies is pleased that the Active Archive concept is even more relevant today, than it was 10 years ago. But why is that? Today, many... -
Cut Ties to Legacy Systems to Contain Costs, Increase Access to Valuable Data in a Post-COVID-19 World
When I wrote this for the Active Archive Alliance’s “2020 Predictions” blog late last year, I had no idea it would prove to be so prescient: “In the healthcare space, M&A activity will continue to spur system transitions. Rather than... -
An Active Archive Strategy Can Help Solve More than Just Archiving
Some storage vendors like to present their customers with two choices when it comes to managing their data infrastructure, particularly for environments that are in the hundreds of TB or multi PB scales: 1) customers can either use what such... -
IoT and AI Generate Demand for Active Archive
Perhaps lost in the current COVID-19 pandemic, is another pandemic of a far less threatening kind, the pandemic of the Internet of Things or IoT. It’s a good pandemic that will add value to everything we do and make. IoT... -
Active Archive Supports the Quadruple Aim in Healthcare
Measuring success in healthcare is not new. Years ago, there were six widely accepted healthcare quality factors viewed as most important. The factors, based on the Institute of Medicine report Crossing the Quality Chasm, provided a framework for measuring care... -
Active Archive: Object Storage Matures into Hierarchical Storage Management
The key to introducing new technology is to make the technology easy to use, deploy and manage. As the new technology begins to take hold the users decide what features will come next, this is the maturity curve. Maturity development...