IDG Contributor Network: 3 requirements of modern archive for massive unstructured data
Perhaps the least understood component of secondary storage strategy, archive has become a necessity for modern digital enterprises with petabytes of data and billions of files.
So, what exactly is archive, and why is it so important?
Archiving data involves moving data that is no longer frequently accessed off primary systems for long-term retention.
The most apparent benefit of archiving data is to save precious space on expensive primary NAS or to retain data for regulatory compliance, but archiving can reap long-term benefits for your business as well. For example, archiving the results of scientific experiments that would be costly to replicate can be extremely valuable later for future studies.