Active Archive Blog

The amount of time that a municipality must retain its video surveillance footage has been very fluid over the last few years, with each city determining for themselves how long video surveillance footage must be kept. Many cities have begun...

Future Active Archive Strategy Can Fix That.   There is a long-held dictum that complexity drives cost in IT. That is true for storage management across all industries, where IT planners struggle to reconcile the cost of storing, protecting, and managing...

The past year has seen a rise in new technologies that have evolved around machine learning, smart cities, internet of things (IoT), video surveillance and 4K resolution video. These new advances are spurring an accelerated growth in digital data that...

Have you ever noticed the grainy quality of surveillance footage shown on the local news broadcasts? Some unfortunate citizen is getting assaulted after making an ATM withdrawal and you feel like you’re watching a 1930s Charlie Chaplin rerun.  The reason...

A common problem in IT environments today is the fact that backup and archive are often conflated, resulting in too many organizations trying to use backup software to handle archive requirements. In fact, the last decade has shown that dedicated...

Today’s IT leaders are focused on every possible way to drive performance and extract as much value as possible from their systems and technologies while striving to conserve energy and reduce waste. One critical area that IT leaders are looking...

The continued growth of higher resolution formats and the evolution of the Internet and online distribution of media content, is changing the storage needs of content creators and their workflows. Higher resolution, increased frame rates and more channels of audio...

Modern enterprise data centers are some of the most technically sophisticated operations on earth. Ironically enough, they are also often fortresses of inefficiency, with some equipment being utilized less than 10 percent of the time, and servers being ineffective 30...

We are pleased to welcome our newest member, MT-C, to the Active Archive Alliance. MT-C simplifies access to content through its intelligent catalog and metadata, and brings a unique solution for an active archive that lowers storage total cost of...