Quantum Expands Hybrid Cloud Offer with Features Across End-to-End Unstructured Data Platform

Quantum Corp. announced new features in the company’s end-to-end data platform, including advances to its policy-driven data movement technologies, to help customers build their hybrid cloud workflow to bridge on-prem deployments with multi-cloud integration.

With the massive amount of data customers need to retain for business and compliance purposes, customers are using both public and private cloud resources to store and manage this data, driven by their budget, frequency with which they need to access the data, and their data protection requirements. With these new features, customers can place data exactly where it’s needed, when it’s needed. By using a flexible and hybrid cloud environment, customers increase operations agility, reduce business risk, and optimize costs across on-prem and public cloud resources.

“Our strategic vision is to deliver the best end-to-end data platform from on-premises to any cloud that empowers our customers to address their unstructured data needs across the entire data lifecycle,” said Brian Pawlowski, chief development officer. “This isn’t about ‘public cloud versus private cloud’; It’s about giving customers choice and enabling them to create flexible, hybrid cloud workflows that are designed for their unique needs and goals, and these new features we are delivering make that easier for customers to achieve.“

New capabilities include:

DXi Cloud Share: DXi backup appliances have long delivered performance, scalable backup, data protection, and DR across sites to give customers trusted business continuity. With DXi Cloud Share, customers get more flexibility as DXi appliances can now tier compressed, de-duped backup data sets to both private and public storage clouds, including Quantum ActiveScale, providing up to 70x more efficient use of cloud storage ^(*). This reduces business risks and costs, enabling offsite protection vs. ransomware and long-term retention of backup data for regulatory and in-house data compliance.

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FlexSync 3: FlexSync for years has been a trusted data mover of files to and from the firm’s StorNext collaborative shared storage environments, and now FlexSync 3 adds fast, simple data replication to and from public and private clouds, including ActiveScale and in a future release, Myriad. FlexSync 3 provides a versatile data movement tool across the firm‘s entire end-to-end portfolio, enabling customers to unite multiple on-premises and public cloud workflows across geographies with a shared, centralized object repository. This enables better collaboration among dispersed teams and delivers enhanced data protection and DR.

ActiveScale Cold Replication: As organizations continue to collect, retain and analyze petabytes to exabytes of data with advanced AI analytics, they must reduce the TCO required to preserve this data. The ActiveScale object storage platform provides an industry’s 1st and immutable object replication between cold data services, replicating cold data between ActiveScale systems, as well as replicating ActiveScale cold data to AWS S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval and Glacier Deep Archive Services. For massive data sets whose useful life spans from years to decades, ActiveScale Cold Replication delivers a durable, cost-effective multi-copy solution for long-term retention so customers can analyze and derive insights from their data to drive business forward.

Availability:

ActiveScale Cold Replication feature and FlexSync 3 are available.
DXi Cloud Share is planned for release in 4Q23.
FlexSync 3 for Myriad is planned for release next year.

^(*) Based on internal field data of actual customer deployments. Realized rates will vary depending on the specific data and workload characteristics.

Resources :
Quantum DXi Cloud Share
Blog : Quantum FlexSync 3 Cloud Workflow Evolution for Better Control and Data Protection – FlexSync 3
Blog : Quantum ActiveScale Cold Replication Reducing Data Retention Costs for the Long-Term with ActiveScale