New storage solution cuts data costs and keeps organizations in control
As the quantity of unstructured data generated globally continues to grow exponentially, the storage needed to cope with it needs to grow too and that adds to cost.
What's more much of this data will be 'cold' -- inactive data that must be stored, protected, and kept accessible for years or decades because of compliance requirements or the value it contains.
To solve this problem California-based Quantum is introducing ActiveScale Cold Storage, a new class of storage that combines advanced object store software with hyperscale tape technology to provide secure, durable, and low-cost storage for archiving cold data.
Quantum is also offering a new line of fully managed Object Storage Services to bring the cloud experience to wherever data lives and accelerate digital transformation. These new offerings reduce cold storage costs by 80 percent, enable organizations to maintain control of their most valuable data assets, and unlock value in cold data without expensive access fees.
"Quantum is fast becoming the world leader in hyperscale cold data storage solutions. We now provide solutions to many of the world's biggest hyperscale cloud providers that are on the forefront of building 'forever' cold data archives," says Jamie Lerner, chairman and CEO of Quantum. "The innovations announced today enable us to combine Quantum hyperscale tape architectures with Quantum software, package all of this technology as a cloud service that can be deployed anywhere and offer it to enterprises and cloud providers who are facing the same challenges as hyperscalers."
ActiveScale Cold Storage includes patent-pending two-dimensional erasure coding (2D EC) software. This encodes data within and across tapes, tape drives, tape libraries, and data centers and offers durability with less overhead -- archives can be designed so customers can lose up to three tapes without losing any data.
You can find out more on the Quantum site.
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