Active Archive Blog

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...

The actual quote from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is “To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea...

It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost 10 years since the Active Archive Alliance was founded to help users find solutions for retaining and leveraging their massive unstructured data.  Looking back to 10 years ago, many technologies we now...

Over the last several years, technology vendors have introduced new analytics and big data technologies that allow organizations to tap the value of massive volumes of archival data. At the same time, new applications such as the Internet of Things...

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...