Businesses, governments, societies, and individuals worldwide increase their dependence on data making preservation and archiving has quickly become a critical IT practice. A strategy to move low activity, but potentially valuable archival data to the optimal storage tier immediately yields the greatest storage cost savings while aligning data with storage tiers. Unless a new archival technology arrives, the numerous improvements in tape have made it the clear-cut optimal data archiving storage choice for the foreseeable future. The hardware, software and management components to implement a cost-effective, high availability archive infrastructure are now in place.

Building the Archive of the Future