Top 10 Questions About The Active Archive Appliance

PowerFile's Active Archive Appliance (A3) is an industry first in bringing enterprise data reliability, scalability, and utility, yet definitively better economics and peace of mind in long term data access through the harnessing of consumer-proven storage underpinnings (DVD) in its subsystem.

With any new approach to technology, especially one that uses something as common as DVD, it is expected that there will be questions driven to some extent by misconceptions and assumptions. PowerFile has attempted to pick the top ten questions about the A3's approach to solving the archive storage problem and address them in this article.

PowerFile adds tremendous value in the area of both short-term "write" reliability and the very long term shelf life reliability of optical storage. In addition to extensive qualification of "archive-grade" media and working directly with media manufacturers to ensure PowerFile customers receive the highest, most consistent quality of media available, PowerFile has developed patented and patent-pending technologies to create a storage system that is at least 10 times more reliable than enterprise tape or disk-based RAID.