TECH-ARROW has long prided ourselves on our archiving solution’s features enabling more active use, including direct end user access through various means. Now, active archives are being recognized as the future of archiving going forward.
Archives have generally been treated as a passive feature of organizational data management, achieving:
- Long term data storage
- Legal or compliance data handling
- At-request data identification, retrieval or deletion
However, things have changed over the last few year. Largely, this is thanks in part to the increasing reliance on the Cloud as well as changing data creation and use patterns. Taken together, these changes have made active archives a more desirable choice.
What are active archives?
Active archiving is, broadly speaking, archiving in ways that buck the old paradigm of “put it on a shelf and forget about it.” With data now being acknowledged as one of your organization’s major assets, this approach is no longer considered sufficient.
Active archiving solutions aim to provide quick access to secondary storage systems, with the data always available online for fast recovery and review. The means of holding all this valuable material – be it LTO tape, disk arrays or the Cloud – is well established. The element that enabled active archives—and which will drive archiving into the future—is the ability to find and move the data quickly, safely and efficiently.
This puts the ball in the court of archiving solution designers – the system has to be capable of identifying data (via full-text search, comprehensive and complex indexing, or other tools) and giving the user a variety of options for working with that identified data, without contravening needs established by compliance or legal expectations.
contentACCESS is the solution to try
TECH-ARROW’s contentACCESS offers a variety of options filling these criteria for users – from a complex and comprehensive indexing to a powerful full-text search that can be used to find data when desired. In addition, contentACCESS’ includes a democratized access option. End users can access their archived data without having to wait for system administrator intervention – through a web portal, through our Outlook integration or on the move with the app.
Interested in learning more? Contact us for more information and a free consultation and demonstration of our archive or backup in action.
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