The Active Archive Alliance is a collaborative industry alliance formed to educate end user organizations on the evolving new technologies that enable reliable, online and efficient access to their archived data. With active archiving, organizations can use both tape and disk in a large heterogeneous storage pool behind a standard file system interface. Active archiving enables online access to archive data, making it searchable and quickly accessible, while ensuring data integrity and simplified data management.

Apple startete die PC-Revolution in den 1970ern mit dem Apple II und schuf mit dem Macintosh in den 1980ern eine echte Innovation auf dem PC-Markt. Auch heute noch ist Apple führend in der Branche, was Innovation betrifft, mit seinen preisgekrönten Desktop- und Notebook-Computern, dem Betriebssystem OS X sowie mit iLife und professionellen Anwendungen.

Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers worldwide innovative technology, business solutions and services they trust and value. Dell Services develops and delivers a comprehensive suite of services and solutions in applications, business process, consulting, infrastructure and support to help customers succeed.

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Hitachi Data Systems bietet service-orientierte Speicherlösungen (SOSS), die dynamisches Provisioning von heterogenem Speicher nach Bedarf eines Unternehmens ermöglichen. Dabei wird der Speicher zentral durch die Speichervirtualisierungs-Software von Hitachi verwaltet. Als ein wesentlicher Teil der Hitachi Storage Solutions Group bietet Hitachi Data Systems Speicherinfrastruktur-Plattformen, Speichermanagement-Software und Speicher Consulting Services an, die direkt und über indirekte Kanäle in über 170 Ländern und Regionen vertrieben werden. Zu den Kunden gehören beinahe 60 Prozent der Fortune-100-Unternehmen. Weltweit hat das Unternehmen über 4100 Mitarbeiter.

Isilon, a division of EMC, is the global leader in scale-out storage. Isilon delivers powerful yet simple solutions for enterprises that want to manage their data, not their storage. Isilon's products are simple to install, manage and scale, at any size. And, unlike traditional enterprise storage, Isilon stays simple no matter how much storage is added, how much performance is required or how business needs change in the future.

Nexsan Corporation is a leading provider of energy-efficient, long-term storage systems. Nexsan delivers secure storage appliances and modular, capacity-optimized disk-storage systems for a broad range of applications, including fixed-content storage and archiving, email, medical imaging, compliance and litigation support, disk-based backup, digital video security, and rich media.

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Nirvanix's mission is to ease the burden of storage management for organizations while enabling secure and reliable access to data worldwide. Nirvanix provides the Nirvanix Cloud Storage Network, a fully-managed, secure cloud storage service developed for today's enterprises. The Cloud Storage Network intelligently stores, delivers and processes storage requests in the best network location, providing the optimal user experience.

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Permabit is the leader in the development and delivery of Data Optimized Storage. It delivers Albireo; the only embedded high performance OEM data optimization software, as well as integrated solutions in the Permabit Enterprise Archive and Cloud Storage offerings. Permabit's Albireo High Performance Data Optimization Software enables OEMs to leverage their R&D investments, increase margin and accelerate time to market for next–generation unified storage platforms.

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SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC) ist ein führender Anbieter von Hochleistungscomputing-Lösungen. SGI bietet eine umfassende Palette an hochleistungsfähigen Server- und Speicherlösungen sowie branchenführende Fach- und Supportservices, dank der seine Kunden die Herausforderungen komplexer, datenintensiver Workflows meistern und bahnbrechende Entwicklungen, Innovationen und Datenanwendungen beschleunigen können. SGI unterstützt seine Kunden dabei, ihre Zielsetzungen zu erreichen, sei es die Verbesserung der Lebensqualität durch Arzneimittelforschung, die Konzeption und Fertigung sichererer und sparsamerer Automobile und Flugzeuge, die Untersuchung des Weltklimas, die Bereitstellung von Technologien für innere Sicherheit und Verteidigung oder die Verwaltung großer Datenmengen in Unternehmen. Das Unternehmen betreibt weltweite Niederlassungen und hat seinen Hauptsitz in Sunnyvale, Kalifornien. Seine Website ist sgi.com

Spectra Logic defines, designs and delivers innovative data protection through tape, deduplication and disk-based backup, recovery and archive storage solutions. By igniting innovation, Spectra Logic challenges the expectations of the data protection market with intelligent, integrated, and simple to use backup and archive technologies. Throughout the more than 30 years in business Spectra Logic has delivered high-density, feature rich storage with unmatched service and support to customers worldwide.

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Square Box Systems is a small, privately owned software company, specializing in the development of multimedia tools and providing technical consultancy of a high standard in a variety of technologies. If you are after a cost-effective, yet scalable, off-the-shelf media asset management system, the CatDV product family can answer your needs. CatDV is a cross platform media asset management tool. It offers highly scalable architecture, powerful logging tools and an intuitive user interface. CatDV is the ideal application to bring order to the mass of media files we all have to deal with on a daily basis.

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VMware delivers virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable IT organizations to energize businesses of all sizes. With the industry leading virtualization platform – VMware vSphere™ – customers rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, improve agility, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2009 revenues of $2 billion, more than 190,000 customers and 25,000 partners, VMware is the leader in virtualization which consistently ranks as a top priority among CIOs.