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Archive360, Inc., registered trademark and Archive2Anywhere, announced Archive2Azure‘s day-one support for Microsoft Azure Cognitive and Media Services and Azure Archival storage tier.

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Eliminating time consuming, manual indexing of audio and video files frequently stored in SharePoint Online, OneDrive and Azure, Archive2Azure expands on Microsoft Corp.‘s machine learning capabilities for more intelligent and automated audio and video indexing, search, translation and transcription.

Archive2Azure supports Azure Archival storage tier, lowering total storage ownership costs further. It provides companies three Azure storage tiers, hot, cool, and archival.

“The increasing volume of audio and video content stored in SharePoint Online, OneDrive and Azure has become a tedious management challenge for today’s enterprises including corporate legal departments for eDiscovery,” said Tibi Popp, co-founder and CTO, Archive360. “Traditionally, they’ve had little indexable data for search and discovery processes and both indexing and search has been largely done through time consuming and error-prone, manual processes. With our support – out of the gate – for Azure Cognitive and Media Services and the Azure Archival storage tier, we’re automating the indexing process, greatly speeding search and improving discovery accuracy while dramatically lowering total storage costs.”

“Because indexing and searching audio and video files has been such a time-consuming process, many organizations have large stockpiles of these files that are difficult and costly to search and discover. This can present e-discovery, compliance and governance challenges as well as policy-based management issues,” said George Crump, Chief Analyst and founder, Storage Switzerland LLC. “Archive360 is helping to solve this. By taking advantage of Microsoft’s new Azure capabilities such as cognitive and media Services and a low-cost archival storage tier, they’re taking the cost and risk out of the retention and searchability of audio and video files.“

Archive2Azure Cognitive and Media Services indexes audio and video files by spoken word, producing a complete transcription of the speech. Extending Microsoft machine learning, it can translate content into one of 53 foreign languages and, in the near future, will perform image tracking, facial recognition and emotion from video files. As a result, audio and video files have much more robust indexable metadata which speeds search and raises accuracy over that of human search.

Archive2Azure supports Azure Archival storage tier
Introduced by Microsoft, the Azure Archival storage tier, which joins Microsoft’s existing hot and cool storage tiers, enables a low cost destination for the long-term archiving of low-touch and inactive files. Archive2Azure will support this storage tier via FastCollect for SharePoint Extension, enabling SharePoint Online users to lower storage and information management costs.

“Archive360 is always in lock step with Microsoft, delivering the most advanced functionality available to support new Microsoft developments upon their release,” said Bill Tolson, VP, marketing, Archive360. “With the ability to automatically and intelligently index audio and video files, we’re now better able to support customers with large sets of this data type with the advanced solution they want to improve policy-based retention and disposition, discovery reliability and faster search.“

Archive2Azure Cognitive and Media Services and Archive2Azure support for the Azure Archival storage tier are available.