NAB: Quantum Unveils NVMe Flash Platform and Solutions for Multiple Workflow Stages

Quantum Corp. announced that at the 2019 NAB Show it will launch a NVMe all-flash storage platform that is designed to accelerate media workflows.

The company also announced availability of StorNext 6.2, a n ew release of the firm’s performance shared storage. It is shipping with the latest generation Xcellis appliances, the solution to ingest, edit, share and preserve media content and provide an improved technical foundation for organizations to run their operations.

In addition to these developments, at NAB, the company will also feature a range of interactive demonstrations of new and enhanced solutions encompassing removable storage for on-set production, NVMe for performance ingest and edit, as well as color correction and finishing of UHD content, cloud-based solutions for low-cost long-term preservation, the latest StorNext features, and hyperconverged storage for surveillance recording.

NVMe all-flash appliance
As customers deal with more and more UHD content, emerging storage technologies like NVMe are intended to help customers dramatically improve performance while simplifying their infrastructure. The firm’s NVME all-flash appliances combine 100% NVMe storage media with a new software-defined block storage architecture and StorNext, which is expected to deliver performance storage capabilities for the demanding environments in media.

Showcasing StorNext 6.2 advancements
StorNext 6.2 bolsters performance for high resolution video while enhancing integration with cloud-based workflows and global collaborative environments. With StorNext 6.2 the company offers an S3 interface to Xcellis appliances, enabling them to serve as targets for applications designed to write to RESTful interfaces. In addition, enhanced FlexSync replication capabilities enable users to create local or remote replicas of multi-tier file system content and metadata, offering more flexibility to protect a single directory or an entire file system.

Xcellis appliances

Xcellis models with more efficient network capabilities for productivity
From post-houses to cutting-edge autonomous vehicle engineering firms, organizations are turning to the latest networking technologies to attain the most cost-effective storage solutions. The Xcellis models offer 100GbE and 32Gb FC connectivity options, enabling customers to utilize the latest generation networking infrastructure between their clients and storage arrays, thereby accelerating workflows and improving productivity. Combined with StorNext’s coordinated file accessibility over NAS, SAN, and DLC architectures, the new Xcellis platform offers architectural flexibility.

Company’s NAB highlights:
At NAB , in addition to showing its NVMe storage appliances managing VFX, color correction and finishing, the company demonstrations will focus on:

Quantum R3000 system
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• R-Series ruggedized storage: Designed for mobile and remote capture of video and other IoT sensor data R-Series removable storage is for capturing on-set dailies.

• Low cost digital media archive – Private or public cloud: The firm will demonstrate the latest Scalar i6 archive tape technology for the low cost on-premise digital media archive, as well as capabilities to archive content in the cloud.

• StorNext features: Demonstrations include the latest features in StorNext 6.2, a more intuitive user interface, cloud-based monitoring and analytics software.

• Hyperconverged surveillance storage: The firm will showcase a product line for video surveillance recording and industrial IoT.

Jamie Lerner, president and CEO, Quantum, said: “The entire media industry is producing more visually stunning and cutting-edge content than ever before, and they’re doing it on Quantum. With our new NVMe appliances, the latest version of StorNext, and innovations like our R-Series ruggedized storage, customers old and new are coming to realize that a storage foundation built by Quantum is essential to the most demanding video workflows.“