Active Archive Blog

More and more data is being created at the edge. In fact, it is predicted that by 2025, 75% of all data will be created and processed outside a traditional centralized data center or cloud.[1] Contributing to this data explosion...

Active archives in healthcare need to be at the top of their game as lifecycle data management requirements and increased regulations demand agility, responsiveness, and security. Long-term data management in healthcare must support a wide variety of system/data types, a...

The Real Cost of Ignoring Legacy Data Stuck on a Long-forgotten Server Storing legacy health data, in theory, isn’t so different from renting a self-storage unit to stash collectibles or old family furniture. So long as one keeps up with...

The 21st Century Cures Act, signed into law in 2016, is designed to give patients greater access to and more control over their healthcare information. Added provisions in 2020 focus on increased interoperability and “information blocking.” The Act requires that...

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...