Active Archives Help Organizations See What They Already Knew

By InterSect360 Research

Active archives are addressing a growing challenge across multiple industries – how to still leverage information once it is stored for good. By applying new file system and tape library technologies, organizations can now build a persistent view of the data in their archives, making it easier to access again if it ever becomes needed.

With a virtualized file system in front of it, a tape library can now become a visible extension of a global storage pool, so the data on tape can be conveniently accessed and administered. This potentially allows an organization to confidently move more of its data to tape, which can have significant advantages over disk in cost per byte, cost per watt, and byte per floor tile.

In addition to the file system capabilities that enable active archiving, significant other enhancements make it practical for many applications, including increased scalability and throughput over previous generations, and enterprise-level data management and reliability features. In particular, tape libraries can now offer predictive failure of media, so administrators can manage their active archives over time.