HP Member of Active Archive Alliance

The Active Archive Alliance announce Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
as its newest voting member.

This
industry alliance consists of twelve storage companies independently focused
on developing and promoting evolving technologies that enable high efficiency,
indexed, and user-searchable file-based access to data.

"The
storage industry is experiencing a paradigm shift as organizations large and
small experience massive data growth," said Molly Rector, chairman of
the Active Archive Alliance and EVP of product management and WW marketing at
Spectra Logic. "We’re seeing
tremendous interest in active archives as a methodology for accessing, managing
and storing high-volume data."

"Leveraging
information to make informed business decisions requires organizations to
cost-effectively store and access PBs of unstructured information,"
said Chris Powers, director of StoreEver solutions development, storage, HP,
and HP representative on the Active Archive Alliance board of directors. "Reliable, long-term data-retention platforms
such as HP StoreAll or HP StoreEver Storage offer affordable, nearly limitless
scalability while enabling customers to instantly turn information into
actionable intelligence via Express Query and related active-archive
innovations."

An active archive is an online file and
storage system that gives users real-time access to data stored for long-term
retention. It allows existing file systems to expand over flash, disk and tape
library storage technologies. The members of the Active Archive Alliance
provide these technologies and work with customers to architect solutions that
meet their current storage needs and scales to accommodate future growth.

HP StoreAll Storage delivers hyperscale
storage and petabytePB scalability for archive and information retention. Storing
billions of files and objects in the same storage system with automated data
tiering provides the efficiency required for active archive solutions.

HP StoreEver Storage
integrates HP tape drives, tape libraries and tape media with HP Converged
Storage, HP Data Protector and third-party backup software. This integration,
coupled with new LTO-6 capabilities, enables HP StoreEver Storage to deliver
active archive, LTO-6 tape backup and DR solutions that help organizations do
more with less by addressing the combined challenges of
data growth, long-term data retention, usability and the need to optimize IT
infrastructure spend