“The trend towards active archives is being driven by significant data growth, compliance requirements and data center consolidation, and is being enabled by technological advancements and changes in IT service delivery models through adoption of cloud computing in particular. The Active Archive Alliance will help raise awareness amongst European end-users of the need for standardisation, best practices, and appropriate infrastructure management in order to take advantage of this paradigm change in IT consumption and delivery. Instead of having vast offline archives delivering little value to the business, online archives are now a viable option for any organisation looking to derive value from bringing data online.”
–Roy Illsley
Principal Analyst
Ovum
“Archiving has become an increasingly vital component in corporate storage environments and solutions like Atempo Digital Archive have emerged to address this opportunity. Any company that regularly manages high-volume digital assets or faces exponential data growth should strongly consider expanding the use of active archiving solutions as part of their storage strategy.”
–Laura DuBois
Program Vice President
IDC
“ The Active Archive Alliance was founded to help organizations properly design cost-effective long-term information retention strategies that enable key stakeholders to gain timely online access to their rapidly expanding archives. These strategies must be complemented with flexible solutions such as FileTek's StorHouse platform, which automates storage management across independent hardware platforms while ensuring that saved data is validated and retrievable at a future date. These capabilities allow organizations to easily leverage future storage technology advancements without adding operational complexity so they can efficiently address compliance and research needs.”
– Brian Babineau
Senior Analyst
Enterprise Strategy Group
“ Leading HPC organizations have practiced active archiving with disk for years, including customers that store up to a century of climate or aerospace data and must be able to access any portion of it very quickly. Now, tape is becoming increasingly popular for active archiving due its ability to reduce complexity to data paths and parallel file systems. Today's tape solutions are highly reliable and provide effective access density. With tape, HPC sites have a way to inexpensively and reliably access all of the data in an archive—regardless of size—while maintaining a robust feature set.”
– Steve Conway
Vice President of Technical Computing, IDC Research
HPC User Forum steering committee member
“ The adoption of active archiving is increasing as enterprises come more and more to the realization that not only does it make sense to store fixed content data, and that is the bulk of their data, more cost efficiently, but they also have to be able to quickly and continuously be able to access this data for ongoing business purposes. Tape libraries paired with file system interface software makes active archiving even more cost efficient while at the same time providing a combination that has the necessary speed and administrator control and the "green" benefit of reduced power and cooling requirements.”
– David G. Hill
Founder and principal, Mesabi Group LLC
“ Market trends support the adoption of active archives. Recent advancements in tape libraries and archival technologies should help active archiving become a prominent technology in expanding data centers. The ability to run file system interfaces over storage pools that include high-throughput, high-density tape libraries will allow more organizations to economically leverage the data in their archives, so they can take full advantage of their institutional knowledge.”
– Addison Snell
CEO, InterSect360 Research
“40 percent of the planet’s data should be archived according to our research, and the best archiving practices encompass solutions that offer high capacity and high data migration speed. Data archiving is no longer an option but has grown into a strategic imperative at the forefront of data center planning. The Active Archive Alliance recognizes this fact and supports users by offering combined archive hosting solutions that are now easy to manage, open and accessible to all-sized organizations.”
– Jon Toigo
CEO and Managing Principal, Toigo Partners International
Founder, Archive Management.org
Chairman, Data Management Institute