Fujifilm Object Archive and Tiger Bridge Solutions Enable Cost-Effective, Open, and Future-Proof way of Archiving and Preserving Massive Amounts of Data

FUJIFILM Recording Media U.S.A., Inc. announces a joint marketing alliance with Tiger Technology Management,LLC (Alpharetta, GA) to provide business customers with a long-term, secure, and scalable storage management solution for the seamless movement of data from a primary storage tier to tape storage.

Integrating FUJIFILM’s Object Archive software with Tiger Technology’s Tiger Bridge software offers active archiving to tape while preserving the entire chain of custody. The resulting environment provides a complete archiving solution to simplify the management and archive of unstructured data, and its movement into low-cost, long-term storage.

FUJIFILM’s Object Archive
Fujifilm's Object Archive

How the two software solutions work together:
The Tiger Bridge solution monitors and manages selected areas of the local file system, then identifies data based on metadata attributes to move it to the Object Archive platform. Aging content can be actively archived – meaning that aged files no longer reside on local disk space, yet remain fully visible and accessible to users and applications. Once this content is archived, Object Archive software provides a secure, long-term archival copy on tape, with a physical air-gap, while permitting continued access to the data. This provides immutable data copies that can help prevent a ransomware or cryptolock attack on a network.

“Working together, Tiger Bridge and Object Archive software products provide a comprehensive archive solution that scales seamlessly as archive needs increase,” says Tom Nakatani, vice president of sales and marketing, FUJIFILM. “The combined environment offers secure data protection for sensitive digital assets while minimizing the total cost of managing long-term data.”

“Successful long-term archiving is achieved when you have confidence in immediately accessing your data, even when today’s technology fails you,” says Lance Kelson, EVP, Tiger. “Using an open tape format is the essential first step, but one must still be wary of archiving software that encapsulates your content in a proprietary wrapper. The Tiger Bridge solution stores files in their native format when moving data to Object Archive software, thereby preserving the chain of custody and avoiding vendor lock.”

Object Archive software subscriptions can be purchased from here, with a 30-day free trial offer available. To subscribe to Tiger Bridge or book a demo, visit this page.

Comments

Data Management space is super hot, but no real news here, adding more and more features to cover nowadays wider needs.

Note the presence of new players confirming that the ocean is even more red. It doesn't mean it is over saturated but it still presents also huge business opportunities even with at least 40 players covering various aspects of this wide domain.

Having selected Tiger Technology, Fujifilm has chosen a partner already recognized for its technology and its presence in some markets like M&E and a few others. It confirms that tape received a new life, promoted by ransomware and the air gap implicit capability, new capacity - we remember the 580TB effort between Fujifilm and IBM - and TCO again, and above all, the modern sort of VTL flavor with the S3 API.

With that, deploying a tape library with a S3 front-end makes really sense, providing the distance and flexibility in other words the ubiquity attribute for such model.

This approach is now popping up in a few places including QStar Technologies, StrongBox Data Solutions, Nodeum, Quantum, Point Software and Systems, Grau Data, HPE with SGI DMF, Atempo, Versity or NetApp.