SAN JOSE, Calif., April 17, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantum Corp.
(NYSE: QTM) today announced StorNext 6, a major new release of its
award-winning StorNext® file system. StorNext 6 adds new
advanced data management features to the industry-leading streaming
performance of the company's scale-out tiered storage solutions
portfolio, which includes flash, disk, tape and public and private
cloud storage offerings. With this unique combination of
performance and management, Quantum continues to extend the power
of StorNext in not only media and entertainment but also other
highly data-intensive environments such as genomics, academic
research, video surveillance, oil and gas, and government
security.
StorNext 6 addresses the needs of enterprises grappling with
using their existing NAS solutions to store large, rapidly growing
data sets and drive business value from that data. These
enterprises are quickly realizing that traditional NAS is too
difficult to upgrade, cannot deliver sufficient performance and is
unable to handle parallel workloads. StorNext 6 not only overcomes
these limitations but also provides more efficient and
cost-effective ways to share and access files across geographically
distributed teams, to manage and protect archived data, and to
audit changes to data throughout its lifecycle. Quantum delivers
all these benefits in an integrated, multi-tier storage solution
that maintains optimized performance levels, visibility and access
at every tier.
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Multi-Site File Replication and Sharing for Easier
Collaboration
In today's world, the ability of
geographically dispersed teams to work together using a common data
set for creative, analytical or other purposes can be a key
competitive differentiator. StorNext 6 facilitates greater
collaboration with the introduction of FlexSync™ and
FlexSpace™:
- FlexSync is a powerful new capability in StorNext 6 that
provides a fast, flexible and simple way to synchronize data
between multiple StorNext systems in a highly manageable and
automated fashion. FlexSync supports one-to-one, one-to-many and
many-to-one file replication scenarios and can be configured to
operate at almost any level: specific files, specific folders or
entire file systems. By leveraging enhancements in file system
metadata monitoring, FlexSync recognizes changes instantly and can
immediately begin reflecting those changes on another system. This
approach avoids the need to lock the file systems to identify
changes, reducing synchronization time from hours or days to
minutes, or even seconds. As a result, users can also set policies
that automatically trigger copies of files so that they are
available at multiple sites, enabling different teams to access
data quickly and easily whenever it's needed. In addition, by
providing automatic replication across sites, FlexSync offers
increased data protection.
- FlexSpace allows multiple instances of StorNext ― and
geographically distributed teams ― located anywhere in the world to
share a single archive repository and easily access the same data
set. Users at different sites can store files in the shared
archive, as well as browse and pull data from the repository.
Shared archive options include both public cloud storage ― Amazon
Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud via StorNext's
existing FlexTier™ capability ― and private cloud storage based on
Quantum's Lattus® object storage or, through FlexTier,
third-party object storage such as NetApp StorageGRID, IBM
Cleversafe and Scality RING. Also, as with FlexSync, FlexSpace
provides fully automated movement of files according to policies,
thereby increasing efficiency and enhancing data protection through
off-site storage.
Enhanced StorNext-Client Functionality for Greater
Agility
With StorNext 6, Quantum delivers a new quality of
service (QoS) feature that empowers users to further tune and
optimize performance across all client workstations, and on a
machine-by-machine basis. Using QoS to specify the appropriate
bandwidth allocation to individual workstations, an administrator
can ensure that storage resources are optimized based on business
priorities ― e.g., providing more bandwidth to demanding
applications on urgent projects ― and adjust quickly as priorities
change.
StorNext 6 also enables client platforms to browse archive
directories that contain offline files ― which can number in the
hundreds of thousands, or even millions ― without having to
retrieve the entire directory. As a result, this feature
significantly streamlines the archive retrieval process, enabling
users to get the files they need more quickly.
File Copy Expiration for Increased ROI and File Auditing for
Deeper Insights
As the foundation for a single, integrated
solution that can span a single namespace across flash, spinning
disk, object storage, tape and the cloud, StorNext has long reduced
overall storage costs through tiering. StorNext 6 adds a new copy
expiration feature, enabling automated removal of file copies from
more expensive storage tiers, thereby freeing up space and
increasing the overall return on investment. In addition, when one
of several copies of a file is removed from storage, a
complementary selectable retrieve function in StorNext 6 allows
users to dictate the order of retrieval of the remaining copies.
This functionality ensures that the file is retrieved from the most
appropriate storage tier based on business or organizational
needs.
StorNext 6 also can now efficiently track changes in files
across the data lifecycle and provide reports on who changed a
file, when the changes were made, what was changed and whether and
to where a file was moved. In addition to providing administrators
with greater file management granularity and insight into usage
patterns, this new auditing feature helps support compliance
requirements.
Availability and Pricing
StorNext 6 will begin
shipping with all newly purchased Xcellis™ and StorNext M-Series
offerings, as well as Artico™ archive appliances, in early summer.
It will be available at no additional cost for StorNext 5 users
under current support contracts.
Supporting Quotes
David
Donald, Founder, Keeper Technology
"Quantum has been
at the forefront of providing customer solutions for the most
data-intensive environments, helping customers store, manage and
protect their digital assets. The significant improvements within
StorNext 6 attest to its continued leadership. As a long-standing
Quantum partner, we look forward to bringing these exciting new
capabilities to our customers."
Henry Baltazar, Research
Director, Storage, 451 Research
"As enterprises look to
maximize the strategic value of their ever-growing data, they face
increasing cost and complexity issues. Quantum's StorNext has a
long track record in demanding scale-out storage use cases, and the
new StorNext 6 release introduces valuable performance and enhanced
data management features, further empowering users to achieve their
business objectives more easily and cost-effectively."
Molly Presley, Vice President,
Global Marketing, Quantum
"While traditional NAS and
general-purpose, scale-out storage offerings increasingly fall
short in meeting today's escalating unstructured data management
demands, Quantum continues to deliver even greater advancements in
our StorNext-based solutions. We designed StorNext 6 to give
businesses and other organizations the ability to interact with
their data in new ways and thereby drive greater creativity,
productivity, innovation and insight."
Additional Resources
- Learn more about StorNext 6:
www.quantum.com/products/scale-out-storage/stornext-6/index.aspx
- Read about Xcellis workflow storage:
www.quantum.com/products/scale-out-storage/stornext-primary-storage/index.aspx
About Quantum
Quantum is a leading expert in
scale-out tiered storage, archive and data protection. The
company's StorNext platform powers modern high-performance
workflows, enabling seamless, real-time collaboration and keeping
content readily accessible for future use and re-monetization. More
than 100,000 customers have trusted Quantum to address their most
demanding content workflow needs, including large government
agencies, broadcasters, research institutions and commercial
enterprises. With Quantum, customers have the end-to-end storage
platform they need to manage assets from ingest through finishing
and into delivery and long-term preservation. See how at
www.quantum.com/customerstories.
Quantum, the Quantum logo, Artico, FlexSpace, FlexSync,
FlexTier, Lattus, StorNext and Xcellis are either registered
trademarks or trademarks of Quantum Corporation and its affiliates
in the United States and/or other
countries. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
"Safe Harbor" Statement: This press release contains
"forward-looking" statements. All statements other than statements
of historical fact are statements that could be deemed
forward-looking statements. Quantum advises caution in reliance on
forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include,
without limitation, 1) benefits and value to customers from using
StorNext 6 file systems, 2) the availability of such systems and 3)
customer demand for and Quantum's future revenue from such systems.
All forward-looking statements are based on information available
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Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission on February 2, 2017,
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and on new product introductions, which may not be successful, in
which case our business, financial condition and results of
operations may be materially and adversely affected." Quantum
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future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable
law.
Public Relations Contact:
Bob Wientzen
Quantum Corp.
+1 (720) 201-8125
bob.wientzen@quantum.com
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