Active Archive Blog

Some storage vendors like to present their customers with two choices when it comes to managing their data infrastructure, particularly for environments that are in the hundreds of TB or multi PB scales:  1) customers can either use what such...

Perhaps lost in the current COVID-19 pandemic, is another pandemic of a far less threatening kind, the pandemic of the Internet of Things or IoT. It’s a good pandemic that will add value to everything we do and make. IoT...

Measuring success in healthcare is not new. Years ago, there were six widely accepted healthcare quality factors viewed as most important. The factors, based on the Institute of Medicine report Crossing the Quality Chasm, provided a framework for measuring care...

The key to introducing new technology is to make the technology easy to use, deploy and manage.  As the new technology begins to take hold the users decide what features will come next, this is the maturity curve. Maturity development...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...