Technology workers today are well aware of the tremendous data tsunami, which keeps growing ever larger and larger while swamping the storage capacity and backup windows of businesses all over the world. Additionally, shrinking IT budgets and staffing levels have severely hampered IT staffs' ability to properly store and protect the ever increasing amounts of data while also providing the business with ready and secure access to all that data.

This situation has driven businesses to look for more innovative ways to address this growing problem but without breaking the budget and the company in the process.

Over the last few years there has been an increasing amount of interest in data archiving as a possible solution to help address various factors of this problem such as:

• Explosive growth of data quantities on corporate networks
  
• Need to retain more and more data for longer periods of time to meet various legal, corporate and governance requirements
  
• Need to properly protect increasing amounts of data in the face of shrinking backup windows
  
• Need to contain or reduce costs wherever possible

Along with this growing interest in data archiving we have also seen the evolution of data archiving that has now culminated in Cloud Based Archive Solutions.