IBM Joins Active Archive Alliance

The Active Archive Alliance announced that IBM Corporation has joined the organization, which promotes modern strategies to solve data growth challenges.

IBM joins a growing number of storage and IT vendors that support the use of active archive solutions for data lifecycle management.

“Many organizations are seeking an archival solution that provides their users with immediate access to their data,” said Chris Dittmer, VP, IBM high end storage. “Our archive storage solutions combine exabytes of storage with geo-dispersed technology and built-in encryption for data integrity and confidentiality. We are excited to join the Active Archive Alliance and to help promote solutions that deliver rapid data search, retrieval, and analytics.“

Active archiving enables organizations to gain value from retained data quickly. It is a high-value, scalable storage architecture that grants fast access to archival data across a virtual file system and manages data between storage systems and media types typically based on user-defined policies.

IBM’s active archival solution, the Cloud Object Storage system, provides a software-defined hyperscale solution for AI workloads and big data primary and secondary storage. Customers use its solution across the globe for workloads such as AI, analytics, IoT, video and image repositories and cloud storage for service providers, including IBM Cloud.

“We’re pleased to welcome IBM to the Active Archive Alliance,” said Peter Faulhaber, chairman, Active Archive Alliance and president and CEO, Fujifilm Recording Media USA., Inc. “New applications such as AI, ML and IoT are increasing the value of data and driving intense interest in active archive technologies. The Alliance is dedicated to bringing the best of breed technologies together to provide end users with active archive solutions for intelligent data management.“

The alliance serves as a vendor-neutral, 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, 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.

Members and sponsors include Atempo SAS, Fujifilm Corporation, Iron Mountain, Inc., Harmony Healthcare IT, Komprise, Inc., MediQuant, LLC, Quantum Corporation, Qumulo, Inc., QStar Technologies, Inc., Spectra Logic Corporation, StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc. and Western Digital Corporation.