Quantum Sets the Standard for Active Archive Solutions

MEC Updates — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 01:29:44 +0000

Quantum has joined forces with the Active Archive Alliance to collaborate with other vendors in elevating active archiving methodologies, technology, and applications. This endeavor truly makes sense for their company as they are in an elite field of organizations that produce and offer a complete set of storage solutions. They cover the entire storage infrastructure for institutions whose businesses focus on making the most out of the enormous value of their unstructured data. What is crucial for these organizations’ success is their ability to mine their data. Active archiving is about enabling nimble data searches in a rapidly expanding universe of files and objects, when companies need it and being able to retrieve it quickly and put it into the appropriate workflow.

Quantum Unlocks the Value of Archival Data

An active archive workflow permits users to effectively retrieve data or content from where it lives and copy it into a process flow. Scientific analysis, artificial intelligence, and extensive film editing are examples of operations that demand a lot of computing power. Other operations, such as viewing, sharing, or annotating video or other unstructured material, require less computing power.

Quantum has been an established member of the active archive solution provider enterprise, but with their recent acquisitions of Atavium and ActiveScale, they are raising the bar for active archive solutions.

The Atavium technology Quantum has acquired adds significant value to enterprises by providing autonomous data discovery with real-time analytics, as well as zero-touch data classification and labeling on intake. By managing data according to policy, users can manage data automatically according to its lifecycle requirements, lessening risk and compliance. It also has global search and analytics, which allows users to examine data for anomalies in seconds rather than days or weeks.

ActiveScale's Value Propositions Aligns with Quantum

ActiveScale is an excellent on-premise object storage solution that has proven itself as a leader in satisfying customers by delivering on these key value propositions:

Set and forget operation: Self-checking, self-healing, incredibly long-lasting, and easy to use. Customers with environments of 100PB or more are maintained by a single administrator who only interacts with the solution on a monthly basis for check-in and monitoring.
High performance at scale: In the case of component failure or system upgrades, a patented method for spreading erasure-coded data among components eliminates the need for disruptive rebalancing. ActiveScale simply keeps on going.
Multi-geo deployment: Their unique technique to data distribution results in a high-performing, fully consistent 3-geo capability with up to 19 9s durability and full data access even in the case of a site disaster.

In addition to these newer entries into Quantum’s portfolio, Quantum is a leading producer of tape solutions for businesses and large hyper-scale systems, where the tape serves as a vital element of low-cost archive and ransomware protection. Quantum also offers main storage solutions to meet the demands of some of the world’s most demanding video and unstructured data operations.

Quantum is keen on fulfilling its duty to help the clients of Active Archive Alliance architect the most performant and cost-effective solutions possible to meet their demanding requirements.

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Quantum: The “Chill Factor” in a Secured Backup and Archive Solution

MEC Digital — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 08:55:41 +0000

The topic of data growth and security continues to be a challenge for several organizations. The question to “air-gap” or not to “air-gap” is systematically being posed across all industries as they think about a solid backup and archive strategy. Once it involves how and where to invest, air-gapping becomes the last item on the checklist, and understandably so. Data keeps growing and whereas budgets might increase slightly, IT resources are forecasted to remain flat, according to IDC. With such a big amount of avant-garde technologies out there, it appears tape is shrinking in its usage. However, tape’s distinctive ability (despite its advanced age) to morph into a sustainably green, secure, and extremely cost-efficient alternative to different backup and archive solutions permits it to remain relevant – even over cloud alternatives. I’d say a rebound may be on the horizon…

So what’s the chill factor?

As in weather, the wind chill will verify how cold it feels on your skin once the wind is factored in. Likewise, organizations nowadays should perceive their data to see how hot or cold it’s to leverage the acceptable storage solution that’s efficient yet price effective. Much of the data in additional expensive primary storage is cold. Cold data is just sometimes used data. IDC estimates that about 400th of the 7.5 ZB of data are commercially connected and of that, about 60 minutes are cold data or data with expected retrieval of larger than thirty days. This data may be a good candidate for tape storage in your data center or within the cloud. And hey, cold storage doesn’t need a great deal of power and cooling.

Security

Tape continues to be the de facto to secure your cold storage/long-term data. Fact is, the physical air-gap between tapes and the network merely doesn’t allow malware/ransomware or hackers to break through to reach offline data. The goal of these evil agents is to destabilize and destroy the ability to self-recover and then demand a ransom. We’ve heard several stories and firms withdrawing from business because of the vulnerability of keeping all data online. Whereas any online data is destroyed by an eventual hacker, the data stored firmly on tape is untouched with its integrity intact.

Considering each cost and damage created by these attacks, and the astronomical hit on your resources and valuable time that would be spent on managing important data, there are quite enough reasons to make the best protection of your crucial data on tape. Sure, you’ll keep cold data on hot disk, however, the simplest approach is to tier it off to the foremost cost-efficient alternative – tape. That’s why we extremely suggest the 3-2-1-1 approach to protection. At the end of the day, what matters is “are you able to recover?”. If your data is chilled, there’s no reason to tremble.

Economics

Determining the worth of your data can assist you to perceive the ultimate storage solution needed. Never underestimate the worth of your historical data. We live in a world where our “always online” approach to life opens the door to a barrage of threats. The great news is, economics is on your facet. Tape remains the cheapest price for storage on the market nowadays, and the predictable future. At less than $50/TB, as long as data is preserved on tape, it’ll provide you with a very cheap total cost of ownership (TCO).

Taking these factors into consideration can bring a tiering approach to your backup and archive strategy and enable the right protection approach for the kind of data in need of saving, cooling, and securing.

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