Active Archive Blog

The pandemic has forced media organisations to rethink storage options. There has been a recent spike in companies adopting cloud solutions as their preferred method of storage. Entire workforces have had no option but to work from home and the...

We are living in an unprecedented era of digital transformation that is driving organizations to become data-centric information managers. The world is creating, consuming, processing, and relying on more data than ever. Even the changes to how businesses have adapted...

Every day the world is blasted with commercials and information talking about digital data. The growth of data, the protection of data, and the long-term durability of data are all hot topics.  Digital data is critical to our daily lives....

Between visits to primary care physicians and appointments with specialists, trips to urgent care, and planned (or unplanned) hospital stays, patients accumulate a lot of data over the course of their lives. The most common way to match data is...

The Active Archive Alliance recently published their 2021 Data Storage and Active Archive Predictions and Trends. That article included a prediction from Scott Hamilton of Western Digital indicating there will be new storage technologies and enhancements to support cost-effective active...

It is hard to beat the cost per TB of data tape libraries for organizations that have large active archives, whether those organizations are public cloud providers or users with large volumes of data. This is due to the low...

If there was ever a time for industries and governments around the world to come together and finally take steps to mitigate climate change, now would seem to be it. The return of the United States to the Paris Climate...

Data is the lifeblood of organizations today and knowing how to manage and store that data is proving to be one of the most challenging tasks for IT professionals.  The cost of secondary storage hardware has been declining year over...

The concept for an active archive is intriguing as it relates to legacy data or any data that was created some time ago amidst a different set of legal, business, and compliance requirements. The lines of how data should be...

Tis impossible to be sure of anything but Death and Taxes* or later versions of the same adage is often quoted. I believe to these two we can add Storage Capacity Growth as another sure thing. In my near 30...