Leading managed services provider deploys
Quantum ActiveScale for active and cold data use cases after
success with other Quantum solutions
SAN
JOSE, Calif., Jan. 30,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantum Corporation
(NASDAQ: QMCO), the leader in solutions for unstructured
data, today announced that Amidata, a leading managed services
provider, has implemented Quantum ActiveScale™ object
storage as the foundation for their new Amidata Secure Cloud
Storage Service. After building successful Backup-as-a-Service and
File Sharing Service offerings on Quantum DXi™ backup
appliances and Quantum StorNext® file systems, Amidata has now
deployed ActiveScale object storage to build a secure, resilient
set of cloud storage services accessible from across all of
Australia, where the company is
based. By deploying ActiveScale, Amidata achieves simple
operational efficiency, seamless scalability, and the ability to
address customer needs across a wide range of use cases, workflows,
and price points.
Amidata's adoption of object storage also aligns with current IT
trends. "More and more organizations are looking at object storage
to create secure and massively scalable hybrid clouds," says
Michael Whelan, managing director,
Amidata. "ActiveScale provides a durable, cost-effective approach
for backing up and archiving fast-growing data volumes while also
protecting data from ransomware attacks. Plus, by deploying the
ActiveScale Cold Storage feature, we are delivering multiple
storage classes as part of our service offerings, allowing us to
target a wider set of customers and use cases. With our Secure
Cloud cold storage option, customers can retain data longer and at
a lower cost; that's useful for offsite copies, data compliance,
and increasingly, for storing the growing data sets that are
fueling AI-driven business analytics and insights."
As the industry's only object storage platform architected for
both active and cold data, ActiveScale supports multiple
S3-compatible storage classes using flash, disk, and tape medias,
providing a seamless environment that can flexibly grow capacity
and performance to any scale. Cold Storage, a key ActiveScale
feature, integrates Quantum Scalar tape libraries as a lower cost
storage class to efficiently store cold and archived data sets.
Quantum's tape libraries are nearline storage, where customers can
easily access and retrieve cold or less used data with slightly
longer latency—minutes instead of seconds—but at a low cost,
leveraging the same infrastructure used by the major
hyperscalers. ActiveScale Cold Storage intelligently stores
and protects data across all storage resources using Quantum's
patented two-dimensional erasure coding to achieve
extreme data durability, performance, availability, and
storage efficiency.
"With our Secure Cloud Storage service, we are delivering
resilient and affordable storage services at any scale, based on
Quantum ActiveScale," says Whelan. "With 7x24 support, no egress
charges, and a flexible set of professional services, we maximize
the benefits our customers achieve working with Amidata and our
cloud storage offering. ActiveScale provides us with a simple,
scalable infrastructure to economically store, access, and protect
our customer's data across the entire lifecycle of their data."
In addition to the Quantum solutions they already offer, Amidata
is evaluating other Quantum solutions to deliver complete
end-to-end offerings for data across the lifecycle, like the new
Quantum DXi Cloud Share which enables archiving of backup data sets
from across core, cloud, and edge environments directly to
Amidata's Secure Cloud Storage Service.
"Having partnered with Amidata for many years, we are delighted
by their success and inspired by their entrepreneurship,
innovation, and customer-centric culture," says Bruno Hald, general manager, secondary storage,
for Quantum. "Amidata is a truly tech-savvy, world-class
organization. They understand that customers need complete
end-to-end solutions to manage the deluge of data they are
generating and to derive value from that data, from
high-performance storage solutions to backup and long-term
archiving. We look forward to our continued collaboration as they
expand their service offerings to include ActiveScale and other
Quantum solutions in the future."
For more information on Amidata's implementation of ActiveScale,
view the video case study. For more information on ActiveScale,
visit https://www.quantum.com/object-storage.
About Quantum
Quantum technology, software, and
services provide the solutions that today's organizations need to
make video and other unstructured data smarter – so their data
works for them and not the other way around. With over 40 years of
innovation, Quantum's end-to-end platform is uniquely equipped to
orchestrate, protect, and enrich data across its lifecycle,
providing enhanced intelligence and actionable insights. Leading
organizations in cloud services, entertainment, government,
research, education, transportation, and enterprise IT trust
Quantum to bring their data to life, because data makes life
better, safer, and smarter. Quantum is listed on Nasdaq (QMCO). For
more information visit www.quantum.com.
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About Amidata Limited
Amidata Limited specializes in
providing data protection services. The company helps ensure that
clients' valuable data resources are always secure, backed up, and
performing at their best. Amidata offers consulting, solutions, and
support through a utility-based pricing model. Clients can break
free of resource constraints and gain peace of mind that their data
is fully protected.
Amidata Secure Cloud Storage overcomes the security, cost
and data sovereignty concerns that persist with public cloud
storage providers. Simply address your exponential data growth
needs with competitive pricing, no egress, or hidden fees, with
locally hosted infrastructure, support, georedundancy, and
encryption.
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