Active Archive Alliance 2023 Report Showcases Modern Strategies for Managing Ever-Growing Data

The Active Archive Alliance recently launched its 2023 State of the Industry Report: Effective Data Management Through Active Archives. The report focuses on how an active archive model solves data growth challenges and provides today’s organizations with a way to manage and access their archival data cost-effectively.

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. The data management layer uses technologies such as metadata and global namespaces to make data accessible, searchable, and retrievable on whatever storage platform or media it may reside.

Key benefits include:

• An essential active archive principle asserts that today’s enterprises need online access to legacy data. Some use cases may need fast access; in other instances, a longer retrieval time is acceptable. The organization determines its access needs and permissions for users and groups.
• Cost Savings. Through intelligent data management software, an active archive moves inactive data to low-cost storage. For some organizations, data management software can tier older data to warm storage such as hard drives. Then when, by policy, data has aged sufficiently, files can move to more cost-effective storage such as economy disk, tape, optical or even the cloud.
• An active archive can supply a wide range of security features and cyber resiliency capabilities to secure and protect data from cyber threats facing today’s businesses and institutions. Because archival data typically remains unchanged, administrators may use WORM (Write Once, Read Many) or view-only mode features to prevent data from being deleted or overwritten, safeguarding data’s integrity, availability, and confidentiality.

In addition to these benefits, an active archive provides technical leaders the flexibility to adapt to new industry trends and growth areas such as sustainability, artificial intelligence, and edge computing. This flexibility helps enterprises thrive with possibilities for market leadership, increased revenue, and competitive advantages.

To download the 2023 Active Archive Alliance Annual Report, click here.