Active Archive Blog
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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... -
The Right Combination of Tape and Cloud Storage
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... -
Backup Does Not Equal Archive – Here’s Why Knowing the Difference Matters
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... -
To Active Archive or Not to Active Archive? – That is the Question
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... -
Reflecting on 10 Years of Active Archive: Q&A with Molly Presley, Founder of the Active Archive Alliance
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...
