SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 12, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantum Corp.
(NYSE: QTM) today announced Xcellis® Scale-out NAS, the
industry's first workflow storage appliance to provide the
management capabilities and robust features of enterprise scale-out
NAS with the cost-effective scaling organizations need to address
modern data growth. It delivers greater than 3X the performance of
competitive enterprise NAS offerings and, with integrated storage
tiering, an end-to-end solution can cost as little as 1/10 that of
alternative enterprise NAS solutions with the same capacity and
performance. This combination makes Xcellis Scale-out NAS unique in
comprehensively addressing the needs of high-value data
environments where the organization's revenue and products are all
built around data.
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Unified Unstructured Data at Scale
Many IoT, media
and entertainment, life sciences, manufacturing, video surveillance
and enterprise high-performance computing (HPC) environments are
outgrowing traditional enterprise NAS. Users have typically turned
to scale-out NAS over the past decade as an alternative but are
finding that scaling capacity, integrating cloud strategies and
sharing data are afterthoughts or not even possible with the
solutions they've adopted. Unlike enterprise IT workloads, data in
high-value workload environments is constantly growing on every
axis — ingest, processing, analysis, distribution, archive. These
environments require storage solutions with the management and
features of enterprise NAS, but which can also cost-effectively
scale performance and capacity. Leveraging Quantum's
industry-leading StorNext® parallel file system and data
management platform, Xcellis Scale-out NAS offers industry-leading
performance, scalability and management benefits for organizations
with high-value workloads:
- Cost-Effective Scaling of Performance and Capacity:
Clusters can scale performance and capacity together or
independently to reach hundreds of petabytes in capacity and
terabytes per second in performance. A single client (SMB, NFS or
high-performance client) can achieve over 3X the performance of
competitive scale-out NAS offerings with multiple clients scaling a
single cluster's bandwidth to over a terabyte per second. In
addition, an end-to-end solution with Xcellis has been shown to
manage petabytes of data in a simplified workflow incorporating
tape or cloud that provides greater performance than leading
NAS-only alternatives for as little as a tenth of the cost.
- Advanced Features and Flexible Management: With simple
installation and setup, a modern administrative single-screen
interface provides in-depth monitoring, alerting and management
functions as well as rapid scanning and search capabilities that
tame large data repositories. Xcellis Scale-out NAS is designed to
integrate with the highest performance Ethernet networks through
SMB and NFS interfaces and offers the flexibility to also support
high-performance block storage in the same converged solution.
- Lifecycle, Location and Cost Management: Xcellis
Scale-out NAS leverages more than 15 years of data management
experience built into StorNext. Xcellis data management provides
automatic tiering between SSD, disk, tape, object storage and
public cloud. Copies can be created for content distribution,
collaboration, data protection and disaster recovery.
Artificial Intelligence With Xcellis
Xcellis
Scale-out NAS is the industry's only NAS solution with integrated
artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that enable customers to
create more value from new and existing data. It can actively
interrogate data across multiple axes to uncover events, objects,
faces, words and sentiments, automatically generating custom
metadata that unlocks new possibilities for using stored
assets.
Availability
Xcellis Scale-out NAS will be generally
available this month with entry configurations and those leveraging
tiering starting at under $100 per
terabyte (raw).
Supporting Quotes
Vincent
Chang, president, Arrosoft Solutions
"Frankly, it is
hard to find an offering that can deliver on performance, scale and
management while keeping costs down. Xcellis Scale-out NAS provides
the reseller community with a Quantum solution that is easy to
position for organizations facing unstructured data growth
challenges across any of a number of areas including performance,
capacity, cost, management, protection, cloud strategy and
artificial intelligence."
Scott Sinclair, senior
analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
"The proliferation of
unstructured data in a vast array of industries offers virtually
unlimited opportunity for discovery and monetization, but
traditional storage and management of that data has kept many
organizations from achieving their full potential. Xcellis
Scale-out NAS is designed to empower users to scale performance and
capacity independently and cost-effectively to keep storage from
becoming an obstacle to progress."
Molly Presley, vice president,
Global Marketing, Quantum
"There is a gap in the
market between NAS systems designed for enterprise data management
and HPC solutions designed for data-intensive workloads. Xcellis
Scale-out NAS fills this gap with the features needed by
enterprises and the performance required by HPC in a single
solution. Xcellis uniquely delivers capacity with the economics of
tape and cloud and integrated AI for advanced data insights and can
even support traditional block storage demands within the same
platform."
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Additional Resources
- Learn more about Xcellis Scale-out NAS:
www.quantum.com/products/scale-out-storage/nas/index.aspx
- Read about Xcellis workflow storage:
www.quantum.com/products/scale-out-storage/stornext-primary-storage/index.aspx
- Watch a video featuring Quantum's Molly
Presley discussing the new Xcellis Scale-out NAS appliance:
www.quantum.com/nas-video
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 remonetization. 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, StorNext and Xcellis are registered
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.
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Quantum's Xcellis Scale-out NAS, 2) customer demand for and
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Bob Wientzen
Quantum Corp.
720-201-8125
bob.wientzen@quantum.com
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