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 designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork, and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple is reinventing the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.

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 provides best-in-class information technologies, services and solutions that deliver compelling customer ROI, unmatched return on assets (ROA) and demonstrable business impact. With a vision that IT must be virtualized, automated, cloud-ready and sustainable, Hitachi Data Systems offers solutions that improve IT costs and agility. Hitachi Data Systems believes that data drives our world – and information is the new currency.

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 is a global leader in large-scale clustered computing, high performance storage, HPC and data center enablement and services. SGI is focused on helping customers solve their most demanding business and technology challenges.

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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.