Active Archive Blog

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...

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...