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December 10, 2020

Object Matrix Joins the Active Archive Alliance

BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 10, 2020 — The Active Archive Alliance has announced that Object Matrix has joined the organization, which promotes modern strategies to solve data growth challenges. Object Matrix joins a growing number of industry-leading storage and IT vendors that support the use of active archive solutions for data lifecycle management.

“We’re pleased to welcome Object Matrix to the Active Archive Alliance,” said Peter Faulhaber, Chairman of the Active Archive Alliance and President and CEO of FUJIFILM Recording Media U.S.A., Inc. “The Alliance is dedicated to bringing the best of breed technologies together to provide users with active archive solutions for intelligent data management. Companies across the globe are embracing active archive technologies to manage the complexities of vast data volumes and realize the value of their data.”

Rising data volumes are intensifying the need for efficient, cost-effective active archives, which manage data for rapid search, retrieval, and analytics. Active archiving enables organizations to gain value from retained data quickly. By leveraging an intelligent data management layer, active archives allow fast access to archival data across a virtual file system and manage data between storage systems and media types.

Object Matrix is the award-winning software company that pioneered object storage and the modernization of media archives. It enables global collaboration, increases operational efficiencies, and empowers creativity through the deployment of MatrixStore, an on-prem, hybrid and cloud storage platform. Object Matrix’s unified deployment approach ensures content spans on-prem and cloud storage, while its focus on the media industry gives it a deep understanding of the challenges organizations face when protecting, processing and sharing video content.

“Now more than ever, media organizations require solutions that enable creative and production teams to self-serve access to content from work or remotely from anywhere,” said Jonathan Morgan, CEO, Object Matrix. “Our MatrixStore solution delivers the inherent scalability and interoperability of object-based storage, as well as instant access to data and metadata, and our customers include some of the world’s largest media organizations. With MatrixStore, organizations have the protection and governance for the lifetime of any content. We are excited to join the Active Archive Alliance and help promote active archive strategies to solve today’s data growth challenges.”

Active Archive Alliance has grown to include the following members and sponsors: Fujifilm, Spectra Logic, Atempo, Harmony Healthcare IT, IBM, IMT Software, Iron Mountain, MediQuant, Object Matrix, PoINT Software & Systems, QStar Technologies, Quantum, Qumulo, StrongBox Data Solutions, SullivanStrickler, Western Digital, XenData

About Active Archive Alliance

The Active Archive Alliance serves as a vendor-neutral, trusted source for providing end-users with technical expertise and guidance to design and implement modern active archive strategies that solve data growth challenges through intelligent data management. Active archives enable reliable, online and cost-effective access to data throughout its life and are compatible with flash, disk, tape, or cloud as well as file, block or object storage systems. They help move data to the appropriate storage tiers to minimize cost while maintaining ease of user accessibility.


Source: Active Archive Alliance

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