Active Archive Blog

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The COVID-19 outbreak has caused organizations around the globe to evaluate their IT infrastructures in the midst of the unparalleled impact of the pandemic. And there has never been a more important time to turn to cost-effective, reliable and established...

Today is World Backup Day, a reminder to everyone to protect their valuable data by creating a second copy and keeping it somewhere safe. However, when it comes to backup, it is important to distinguish between backup and archive as...