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 ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning desktop and notebook computers, OS X operating system, and iLife and professional applications.

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation provides Services Oriented Storage Solutions that enable heterogeneous storage to be dynamically provisioned according to business needs and centrally managed via industry leading Hitachi storage virtualization software. With over 4,100 employees, and as an integral part of the Hitachi Storage Solutions Group, Hitachi Data Systems delivers storage infrastructure platforms, storage management software, and storage consulting services through direct and indirect channels in over 170 countries and regions. Its customers include nearly 60 percent of the top 100 companies on the Fortune 500®.

Isilon Systems is the proven market leader in scale-out NAS. Their clustered storage and data management solutions for file-based data drive unique business and economic value for customers by maximizing the performance of their mission-critical applications, workflows, and processes. Isilon enables enterprises and research organizations worldwide to manage large and rapidly growing amounts of file-based data in a highly scalable, easy-to-manage, and cost-effective way.

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. Nexsan's solutions are the choice of small and medium-sized companies as well as large global enterprises and major governmental agencies around the world who are seeking cost-correct, high density storage solutions. Founded in 1999 and based in Thousand, Oaks, Calif., Nexsan sells its products exclusively through a select global network of VARs, OEMs and system integrators.

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Privately held Nirvanix, based in San Diego, California, is the premier "Cloud Storage" platform provider optimized for media and large files. The company has raised more than $18 million in funding from world-class investors including Intel Capital and counts as customers Fortune 50, leading media & entertainment companies as well as innovative Web 2.0 leaders.

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Permabit is the leading supplier of scalable data-reduced storage for enterprise archiving. Permabit was founded in 2000 by a technical and business team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). From its headquarters in Cambridge, MA, Permabit collaborates with and distributes through third-party solution providers. With these partners, Permabit delivers the only disk based, data-reduced archiving storage truly capable of supporting large-scale enterprise.

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SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC) is a leader in high-performance computing. SGI delivers a complete range of high-performance server and storage solutions along with industry-leading professional services and support that enable its customers to overcome the challenges of complex data-intensive workflows and accelerate breakthrough discoveries, innovation and information transformation. SGI helps customers solve significant challenges whether it's enhancing the quality of life through drug research, designing and manufacturing safer and more efficient cars and airplanes, studying global climate, providing technologies for homeland security and defense, or helping enterprises manage large data. With offices worldwide, the company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., and can be found on the Web at sgi.com

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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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