Western Digital Corporation announced worldwide availability of the object storage-based HGST Active Archive System, SA-1000 model. Targeted for media and entertainment digital data preservation, life sciences data pools, and cloud backup, the SA-1000 enables smaller object storage footprints with easy-to-manage building blocks to scale capacity as needed. Software enhancements have been added: including scale-up, scale-out, clustering, and end-to-end security features for all Active Archive Systems. With the ability to scale from 672TB to 28PB of total capacity geo-dispersed across three data centers in a single namespace, the SA-1000 brings deployment flexibility to customers wanting to start small, and scale as they grow.