PoINT Software & Systems Joining Active Archive Alliance

The Active Archive Alliance announced that PoINT Software & Systems GmbH has joined the organization, which collaboratively provides end-users with technical expertise and guidance to design and implement modern solutions for data growth challenges and lifecycle management.

PoINT Software joins a growing number of storage and IT vendors that support the use of active archive solutions for harvesting and maintaining the value of archival data.

“Exponential data growth is driving fundamental change in computing, storage, and analytics and spurring increased interest in active archive solutions,” said Peter Faulhaber, chairman, Active Archive Alliance and president and CEO, Fujifilm Recording Media USA., Inc. “PoINT Software & Systems expands the Alliance membership’s breadth of innovative active archive solutions for intelligent data management. We are pleased to welcome them to the Active Archive Alliance.“

Organizations around the world are creating and accumulating data at fast rates. An active archive manages data for rapid search, retrieval, and analytics – both efficiently and cost-effectively. It leverages an intelligent data management layer that enables online access to data throughout its lifecycle regardless of which tier it resides in the storage hierarchy. Active archive solutions span all pools of storage, including HDDs, flash, magnetic tapes, optical media, object store and cloud storage.

PoINT Software specializes in the development and distribution of software products for storage, management and long-term archiving of data using all available storage technologies.

“PoINT’s storage and data management software provides an exceptionally efficient way to reduce costs without productive restrictions while fulfilling requirements for long-term compliant storage,” said Sebastian Klee, CMO, PoINT Software. “Our products allow efficient usage of storage systems and help to reduce costs and issues caused by data growth. PoINT products have been proven in more than two million installations worldwide.“