I am becoming a fan of the Active Archive Alliance. I did a webcast with Molly Rector at Spectra Logic yesterday that will soon be available for replay for anyone who couldn’t make it. Will post a link once it is available.
Plus, I started writing a story arc at ESJ.com – first part published yesterday, next part next Tuesday — that begins with the Active Archive Alliance announcement and proceeds to take on the core issue: has the obfuscation and bullshit in the industry reduced archive to a meaningless marketing term?
People confuse backups with archive. They confuse tiered storage with archive. They confuse HSM with archive. They confuse storage management with archive. They confuse “ILM” (an earlier concept made meaningless by the likes of EMC) with archive.
Hope you will read my words and decide for yourself what archive really is.
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John,
Excellent 1st piece of the article. This is the context the storage industry has needed for years, but seemed unable to absorb. I’m looking forward to part 2 with great anticipation. If you’re interested, I blogged on this subject as well.
http://informazen.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/archive-is-a-verb/
My feeling has always been that the archive represents one of the biggest opportunities in the industry. With your voice helping to push this we just might see some real progress. BTW I left Caringo recently and now am at Dell working on their archive and object storage stuff.
Derek Gascon
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