Publications

Preparing for Tomorrow’s Expanding Storage Challenge with Active Archive CONCLUSION AND OUTLOOK: The days of cold, inactive archives are quickly passing as demand for enterprise storage capacity accelerates rapidly, driven by massive AI-fueled growth. This surge underscores the pressing need …

Tape Will Become Key Enabler of Massive Data Retention INTRODUTION: As AI applications proliferate, demand for memory and storage solutions to manage the extensive data utilized in its inference engines is soaring. The arrival of AI signals a turning point, …

Economics, Sustainability, Cyber Security and Reliability Propelling Demand SUMMARY: As data creation continues to grow at 25% or more per year, at least 80% of the world’s digital data is optimally suited to reside on secondary storage. In response to …

Secondary Storage Demanding a New Improved Solution BOTTOM LINE: By offering both random and sequential access, an air gap, the longest life media, lowest cost and TCO, removable disc-like access times and significant sustainability advantages, Beyond active archiving, the Cerabyte …

Tape is Primed for the Rise of Secondary Storage SUMMARY: Digital data creation continues to grow at 25% or more per year, at least 80% of the worlds digital data is lower activity data optimally suited for secondary storage. Tape …

IBM Live Roundtable from August 23, 2023 IBM has announced the IBM TS1170 Tape Drive with 50TB of native capacity per cartridge. Sit down with industry leading analysts as they discuss the benefits this announcement has in preserving humanities digital …

Active Archive Alliance Live Webinar from July 27, 2023 One ZB of storage is equivalent to watching the entire Netflix catalog 3 million times. The relentless demand for more storage is forcing new requirements. Active Archive Alliance co-chairs Bob Cone …

NCAR Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) Live Webinar from June 29, 2023 Join Fred Moore, President of Horison Information Strategies, for his perspective on the next generation of secondary storage technologies future deployment. With an estimated 80% of the …

Guest contributor, Fred Moore, discusses the potential for vertical market failures, plus additional TRENDFOCUS ANALYSIS KEY POINT: The storage industry has spent the last decade talking about the mounting challenges of extreme data growth – it’s time to spend the …