Active Archive Blog
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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... -
2020 Vision: Data Storage and Active Archive Predictions
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 Leverage Tape to Help Tame Unprecedented Data Growth
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... -
Active Archives Play an Essential Role for HPC Environments – Learn More at SC19
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... -
How to Better Manage Growing Data Volumes While Maximizing IT Budget
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... -
2019 State of Active Archive: Mastering Today’s Data Growth Challenges
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... -
NAB 2019: Using Intelligent Data Management to Solve Content Growth Challenges
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...