SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantum Corp.
(NASDAQ: QMCO) today unveiled its all-new data and storage
management platform - Quantum ATFS. It is the first
network-attached storage platform to integrate real-time data
classification and insights with the needs of applications,
determining how storage resources are allocated and consumed. Data
insights enable organizations to visualize data without the
constraints of a file system, automate purposeful data placement
based on policies, and optimize resources using just-in-time data
movement policies. The ability to support the needs of data and
applications on premise or in the cloud advances Quantum's
strategy to be the leading provider of management and storage
services for unstructured data anywhere.
"The engineering teams at Quantum worked with storage
experts to address the many challenges IT teams face with growing
storage needs. They designed an innovative and unchained solution
with cutting edge technology, data provenance and analytics to
provide a storage platform that works for IT, instead of IT that
works for storage," noted Jeffrey
McDonald, PhD, Director of Information Technology, The
Hormel Institute.
Optimize Storage Resources Based on and For the
Benefit of Data
Customers today are performing "unnatural
acts" to manage their data – guessing at capacity and where data
lives, or crawling file systems for days to find what is needed by
the business. They are often uncertain about what they can delete
and when they can delete it. The results are silos of data,
and a loss of control and visibility. ATFS (All-Terrain File
System) meets this challenge. It is designed to ensure just-in-time
purposeful placement of data, meeting the performance, resiliency,
availability, and access demands of applications and workflows. As
a result, ATFS delivers a consistent end user experience to deploy
resources on premise or in the cloud.
By leveraging data classification, metadata and
business-oriented tagging to streamline and optimize storage
resource consumption, ATFS transforms storage economics,
eliminating the premium organizations pay for performance. It is
designed to manage hardware resources as a service to the
application when and where it is needed it at scale.
"The ATFS system we have at 5 Guys Named Moe is the backbone of
our extremely high bandwidth cloud data migration work,"
said Eric A. Reid, Head of Post-Production, 5 Guys Named Moe,
Inc. "Utilizing the metadata tagging built into the ATFS platform
allows us to prioritize data efficiently and make sure that NVMe
space is automatically allocated to the most resource intensive
tasks without any manual input. This reduces costs overall while
ensuring we have the right balance of storage space and high-end
performance available for our workflows."
Predictable, Consistent Performance
ATFS ingests data, which can be placed into flash, bulk, or the
cloud based on policies, application defined tags, or manually.
Performance may be tuned based on the size of the active data set.
Automated policies place data "just-in-time" to support workloads
while achieving greater efficiencies and improved productivity per
unit of storage.
Seamless Cloud Collaboration and Data Mobility
By
automating data classification and placement, ATFS serves a wide
range of use cases:
- Automate Application Workflows: Integrate with asset
management tools, schedulers, and other applications to automate
tasks using API in life sciences, media and entertainment, finance,
and more.
- Active Data Retention: Metadata and tags simplify access
to data over time.
- Deploy Resources in the Cloud: Burst into the cloud
using cloud-based applications or use ATFS for large data set
retention.
- Collaboration: Secure data sharing across the
organization and externally without creating duplicates.
- Control Data: Execute on retention, protection, and
access guidelines per regulations, best practices, to ensure data
provenance.
Availability
ATFS is available to order beginning this
December as software installed on a Quantum appliance.
Supporting Quotes
Scott
Sinclaire, Senior Analyst, ESG: "Cloud adoption
continues to accelerate, as businesses demand greater elasticity
from their storage resources, their compute capabilities, and their
budgets. ATFS is designed for this new data landscape, to provide
businesses with the insight necessary to extract value from their
unstructured data."
Ed Fiore, General Manager,
Primary Storage at Quantum: "For customers with millions or
billions of files, classifying those files so they can be
organized, searched, and then placed based on rules is a key
advancement toward getting control of massive unstructured data
sprawl. We designed the ATFS platform to address these challenges,
to align an application's needs with storage resources in real
time, and to provide deeper insights into data."
Learn More at VirtualQ I Transform Events on November 17th and
19th
Quantum will host VirtualQ | Transform, an online forum for
unlocking the value of unstructured data, November 17th in Europe, and November
19th in North
America. The company will showcase the latest offerings to
capture, store, manage, protect, and archive unstructured data in
all its forms. Participants will gain unique industry perspectives
on the forces and trends shaping Quantum's technology roadmap and
get exclusive access to executives, as well as product and
technical leaders. To register, go to:
https://www.quantum.com/en/resources/events/virtualq-transform/
Additional Resources
- To learn more about ATFS: https://www.quantum.com/atfs
- For a 30-day free trial of ATFS:
https://www.quantum.com/en/products/file-system/atfs/trial/
- To read the Hormel Institute case study:
https://www.quantum.com/hormel-institute
About Quantum
Quantum technology and services help
customers capture, create and share digital content – and preserve
and protect it for decades. With solutions built for every
stage of the data lifecycle, Quantum's platforms provide the
fastest performance for high-resolution video, images, and
industrial IoT. That's why the world's leading entertainment
companies, sports franchises, researchers, government agencies,
enterprises, and cloud providers are making the world happier,
safer, and smarter on Quantum. Quantum is listed on Nasdaq
(QMCO) and was added to the Russell 2000® Index in 2020. For more
information visit www.quantum.com/.
Quantum and the Quantum logo, are registered trademarks of
Quantum Corporation. ATFS is a common law trademark of Quantum
Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains
"forward-looking" statements. Quantum advises caution in reliance
on forward-looking statements. If the risks or uncertainties ever
materialize or the assumptions prove incorrect, the results of
Quantum Corporation and its consolidated subsidiaries ("Quantum")
may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such
forward-looking statements and assumptions. All statements other
than statements of historical fact are statements that could be
deemed forward-looking statements, including but not limited to
statements regarding the advantages of integrated data
classification and tagging on ingest, optimization of storage
resource consumption and reduced overall storage costs of ATFS.
Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include the risk that StorNext
6.4 is not accepted by hybrid cloud and multi-cloud storage users,
and other risks that are described herein, including but not
limited to the items discussed in "Risk Factors" in Quantum's
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its
Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Committee on
August 6, 2019. Quantum expressly
disclaims any obligation to update or alter its forward-looking
statements, whether as a result of new information, 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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