Setting strategies to archive data in an automated, reliable, cost-effective way is emerging as the right approach for organizations in a wide variety of industries. Archiving older data so that it’s automatically moved to less-expensive storage media – such as cheaper disk or tape – frees up costly primary storage, and that means as companies collect more data they can prioritize it based on how old it is and how often it is accessed. When done properly, archived data is inexpensively but reliably stored and easily accessed.
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 | Save Time and Money with Quantum’s Integrated Archiving SolutionIn a data-hungry world, an enterprise’s archiving infrastructure has become mission-critical. Data-intensive industries, such as media and entertainment, government, life sciences, oil and gas, and satellite imaging, need economical ways to archive vast amounts of data—and to easily offer secure, high-performance access to that data when it's needed. |
 | A Best Practice Guide to Archiving Persistent Data: How archiving is a vital tool as part of a data center cost savings exerciseThe data center needs to reduce its total cost of ownership (TCO) for its data retention infrastructure. It must contain costs, manage data growth, improve the data retention process, and make it more efficient. Unstructured data is often the core data asset in an organization’s work flow and is inherent in revenue generating operations. |
 | Making a Robust Media ArchiveQuantum is taking data integrity checking to the next level with the introduction of Extended Data Life Management (EDLM), which is ideal for professional media and entertainment environments. EDLM is a feature in the Scalar i6000’s iLayer management software which enables users to create a policy that sets how often tapes should be scanned to ensure data integrity, what type of scan to perform, and what actions are to be taken for flagged tapes. |
 | Extended Data Life Management: Protecting Data over Long Periods of TimeData retention periods for most corporate data are longer than four years, with many companies keeping their data forever. As archived data ages, it is accessed less frequently; and Disaster Recovery data is stored for years and may never be accessed. Once data is no longer accessed, the media integrity statistics are no longer collected, so storage administrators don’t know if their data in long-term storage can be restored. A new mechanism is needed to ensure that the data can be restored or retrieved when needed. Quantum developed the Extended Data Life Management (EDLM) feature in the Scalar i6000 tape libraries to address this need. |
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