The Active Archive Alliance today announced that MagStor has joined the organization.
BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Active Archive Alliance today announced that MagStor has joined the organization. The Active Archive Alliance is a collaboration of industry-leading storage systems and software vendors that collectively support the use of active archives in providing modern solutions for today's data growth challenges.
"We are pleased to welcome MagStor to the Alliance," said Rich Gadomski, co-chairperson of the Active Archive Alliance and head of tape evangelism at FUJIFILM North America Corp., Data Storage Solutions. "Tape-based active archives are set to remain a game-changer in reducing cost and energy consumption. MagStor's unique approach to archive data restoration and assurance services aligns well with our mission to help organizations optimize their data management."
At the center of an active archive resides an intelligent data management system. This software system plays the central role of automatically placing data where it belongs for cost, performance and workload priorities. Using technologies such as metadata and global namespaces, the data management layer makes data accessible, searchable and retrievable on whatever storage platform or media it may reside.
MagStor is a recognized leader in tape backup solutions and services for enterprise and M&E users. It is the only tape hardware manufacturer and service provider solely focused on the needs of the tape backup market. MagStor offers data migration services and innovative managed services for data restoration and transfer, all with a focus on improving the usability of tape hardware for today's media and entertainment, and enterprise users.
"MagStor is pleased to join other industry leaders in the Active Archive Alliance," said Pete Paisley, MagStor's VP of Business Development. "As MagStor has grown to offer increasingly capable tape storage hardware, media, and data services, we seek opportunities to add our voice to the storage archive ecosystem to help customers better solve problems related to AI and exponential data growth at the lowest possible cost."
Interested in joining other leading active archive solution vendors in advancing modern strategies to solve data growth challenges? Visit the Active Archive Alliance Sponsorship page for more details on how your organization can benefit.
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About Active Archive Alliance
The Active Archive Alliance serves as a vendor-neutral, trusted source for providing end-users with technical expertise and guidance to design and implement modern active archive strategies that solve data growth challenges through intelligent data management. Active archives enable reliable, online, and cost-effective access to data throughout its life and are compatible with flash, disk, tape, optical, ceramic-on-glass or cloud as well as file, block or object storage systems. They help move data to the appropriate storage tiers to minimize cost while maintaining ease of user accessibility. Active Archive Alliance members and sponsors include FUJIFILM, MediQuant, Spectra Logic, Arcitecta, Cerabyte, IBM, Iron Mountain, MagStor, Overland Tandberg, PoINT Software & Systems, QStar Technologies, Savartus, S2|Data, Western Digital and XenData.
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