The Active Archive Alliance Appoints Arcitecta’s Eric Polet to its Board of Directors to Serve as Co-Chairperson

The Active Archive Alliance announced that Eric Polet, director of product marketing at Arcitecta, has been appointed to its Board of Directors and named co-chairperson of the organization. Polet will join co-chairperson Rich Gadomski in leading the organization and supporting its vision to promote awareness of active archive solutions for addressing the challenges of managing data at scale.“Eric has a proven track record of advancing innovative technologies and has been involved with the Active Archive Alliance for over a decade,” said Rich Gadomski, co-chairperson, Active Archive Alliance, and director, channel sales and new business development, FUJIFILM North America Corp., Data Storage Solutions. “His depth of knowledge of active archive use cases and the broader market will be a valuable asset to the Alliance. I look forward to working with him to advance our mission.”

Polet brings extensive storage industry experience to the Active Archive Alliance, with a focus on secondary storage and applications such as backup, archiving and disaster recovery. He currently serves as director of product marketing, at Arcitecta, where he executes the company’s Mediaflux product roadmap and helps customers solve their data management challenges and realize the value of their data. Before joining Arcitecta, he was Product marketing manager at Spectra Logic, where he developed strategic product positioning and messaging to differentiate the company’s solutions in the market.

An active archive model solves data growth challenges and enables organizations to manage and access their archival data cost-effectively and energy efficiently. An active archive empowers data owners to build intelligent archival storage systems that combine flash, disk, optical and tape storage in both the data center and the cloud. These innovative, flexible active archiving solutions enable users to maintain online access to manage and derive value from massively growing archives.

“I’m excited to help lead the Alliance during this exciting time in the IT industry. As the AI boom continues, active archives will play a central role in ensuring high-value datasets remain instantly accessible,” said Polet. “Organizations are increasingly adopting a combination of active archives, intelligent tiering and hybrid cloud architectures to optimize storage utilization at scale, and our members are providing innovative solutions to collectively meet this demand.”