Active Archive Blog

Active archives are gaining prominence as a modern strategy to solve data growth challenges, and many of today’s active archive implementations tap the strong economics and reliability of tape technologies. With seamless access to online data at scale, active archive...

Traditional storage solutions are becoming too costly for today’s exploding data volumes and they don't scale to meet the demands of high-performance computing (HPC) environments. HPC systems and applications require high I/O bandwidth, high capacity, low latency, shared access and...

It’s all about the data, so what do you do with it all? Data is growing at an exponential rate and it’s not going to slow down anytime soon. In fact, IDC predicts that by 2025 worldwide data creation will grow to...

The 2019 State of Active Archive report highlights the data growth challenge facing the digital archive market and the expanding role of active archives in the data management lifecycle. The emergence of big data analytics from machine learning (ML) and...

Over the past decade, the Media and Entertainment (M&E) industry has experienced an overwhelming increase in the amount of content generated due to the transition from traditional media workflows to fully digital environments. Today’s data lifecycle and storage management requirements are on a different scale from...

I recently spent a full day at a meeting of the Active Archive Alliance and as I was flying home it occurred to me that it’s time for data storage managers to rise up from the sleepy status quo of...

Explosive data growth continues to be a top challenge for today’s organizations and this growth is only going to increase in the future. In fact, according to analyst firm IDC, by 2025 worldwide data will grow 61% to 175 zettabytes,...

Storage Visions 2018, held in Santa Clara this past October, was a great opportunity to discuss the deluge of data that is being created and how to effectively manage and store that data for the long term.  A common theme...

Active Archive Alliance member Rich Gadomski, Vice President of Marketing at Fujifilm Recording Media, U.S.A, Inc. will be representing the Alliance at the 2018 Storage Visions conference October 22-23, 2018 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Santa Clara, CA (www.storagevisions. com)....

The need to effectively store, search for and retrieve volumes of archived data is fueling new advancements in active archive solutions. The Active Archive Alliance has released its 2018 State of Active Archive report, which highlights why active archives are playing an...