SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantum Corp.
(NASDAQ: QMCO) today announced enhancements to its ActiveScale™
platform with a focus on data security, increased capacity
efficiency and performance. The company also added a more compact,
entry level configuration to its portfolio. The new capabilities
advance Quantum's strategy to be the leading provider of management
and storage services for unstructured data.
"With data quickly becoming the most valuable asset for many
enterprises and critical for business survival, object storage is
emerging as the preferred archive format to handle massive
unstructured data growth," said Eric
Burgener, Research Vice President, Infrastructure Systems,
Platforms and Technologies Group, IDC. "Enterprises seeking to
monetize their growing data stores will clearly benefit from the
efficient, highly available, secure and scalable unstructured
storage platforms vendors like Quantum are bringing to the
market."
Helping Data-Driven Enterprises Manage, Protect, and Preserve
Their Most Valuable Asset
Increasingly, double digit data
growth rates are exacerbating the cost and complexity of managing
and storing data. The ability of organizations to extract value
from data is essential to staying competitive, which drives the
demand for data availability and access. Magnifying this
challenge is the scale at which data and storage must be managed.
ActiveScale object storage platform meets the necessity of
managing, protecting, and preserving data at scale.
Quantum ActiveScale software delivers flexible scalability, from
a few hundred terabytes to tens of petabytes, with its Dynamic Data
Placement model assuring the highest levels of data
durability. ActiveScale features and architecture simplify the
deployment and management of the environment today and into the
future.
"Digital media infrastructures have never been more dependent on
technologies that help to secure assets and keep them available for
increasingly demanding workflows," said Barry Fairhurst, CEO, F2 Technologies Inc.
"Quantum's ActiveScale object storage offerings come at a time when
many companies are reevaluating how they can better manage and
protect their data assets in a scalable way to stay competitive in
a challenging environment."
ActiveScale Object Lock for Data Immutability
The new
ActiveScale 5.7 Object Lock feature protects data from
malicious acts such as data deletion, relocation, and ransomware.
Once immutability is set on an object or a bucket, it can't be
modified until the policy expires. Whether for compliance or
protection against data loss, object lock ensures the data will be
the same days, months, or years later.
Small Object Aggregation for Enhanced Efficiency and
Performance
The ActiveScale platform has a new Small Object
Aggregation capability that enhances its ability to provide
efficient storage capacity by aggregating small files into a large
object prior to erasure encoding it. The aggregation results in
higher utilization and increased overall performance for small
object transactions. The key differentiator of small object
aggregation is the ability of ActiveScale to provide direct access
to small objects without reconstituting the whole object.
New Entry-Level Capacity
Quantum enhanced the
ActiveScale architecture, now offering a smaller, three-node
configuration starting at 432TB raw. With this entry-level option
customers can benefit from the management, protection, and
preservation capabilities of ActiveScale as they grow.
"This new entry point will enable more customers to deploy
best-in-class object storage at a lower capacity and grow
cost-effectively," said Bruno Hald,
General Manager, Secondary Storage, Quantum. "With this expanded
ActiveScale object storage portfolio, customers gain features to
more capably manage their data, defend it against ransomware
threats with Object Lock, and preserve it indefinitely."
Additional Resources
- To learn more about ActiveScale Object Storage:
https://www.quantum.com/object-storage
- To read the ActiveScale Software Datasheet:
https://cdn.allbound.com/iq-ab/2020/11/ActiveScale-DS00546A.pdf
- To read the ActiveScale Erasure Coding and Self-Protecting
Technologies white paper:
https://cdn.allbound.com/iq-ab/2020/04/WP00254A-v01.pdf
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, and ActiveScale is a 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 ActiveScale object storage platform
meeting the necessity of managing, protecting, and preserving data
at scale, and its ability to manage and protect the user's data
assets in a scalable way to allow the user to stay competitive in a
challenging environment. 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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