The advent of increasingly
larger data workloads is affecting all facets of the IT world—especially
storage. All that data has to be put somewhere where it is safe and easily accessible
for sanctioned people.
Backup, recovery and archive
provider Quantum (NYSE:QTM) on Sept. 8 revealed that it is fine-tuning its
product line to handle these extra-large data loads that are coming into
systems from people and machines that include scientific instruments,
sensors, videocams and other sources.
Quantum announced at the IBC
2011 Conference in the Amsterdam that it has expanded its StorNext appliance
line to offer predictable high-performance file sharing and archiving in new,
preconfigured metadata controllers, expansion appliances and disk, and archive
enabled libraries.
The devices include the
StorNext M330, first in a series of new metadata controller appliances;
StorNext G300 Scale-Out Gateway Appliance with unlimited StorNext LAN client
licensing; and the highly scalable StorNext QM1200, QS1200 and QD6000 Storage
Systems.
The company said the new
high-end storage devices will work optimally with standard StorNext software
and partner hardware offerings to provide additional options for building a
shared SAN and scale-out NAS environment.
Quantum's StorNext
appliances are aimed at a range of markets where high performance and lowest
long-term cost for sharing "big data" files—such as streaming rich
media content or large analytical data files—is a key part of the operational
workflow.
Quantum is demonstrating its
newest StorNext software and appliances through Sept. 13 at the conference in
Amsterdam.
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