PowerFile: Opening Of The Active Archiving Market

PowerFile, Inc. is the innovator in active archiving appliances for permanent storage of digital content and assets.

When compared to traditional archives, the company's award-winning solutions combine the speed and simplicity of online access with better economics and integrity, empowering organizations of all sizes to efficiently manage, secure and preserve valuable digital assets. PowerFile's product offerings combine intelligent storage management software and sophisticated file management with cost-effective, robust hardware to deliver integrated, active and easy-to-use archive solutions.

PowerFile defines active archiving as the movement of fixed content to a shared network tier where the data is continuously available online and preserved for over 50 years. With traditional storage solutions, data is either online and active on primary storage, or archived and offline on tape backups offsite. PowerFile's archival appliances deliver on the promise of accessibility of disk, the economy of tape-based storage, and the longevity and inalterability of DVD media for permanent backend storage.