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This Week at the Q

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1. This week we published a new customer case study, Max Planck Society. Scientists from across the globe work and research at the Max Planck Institute in various scientific fields across natural sciences, life sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. Max Planck Institutes are involved in more than 4,500 cooperation projects in over 100 countries.

The Joint Network Center (GNZ) at the Fritz Haber Institute (FHI) provides technology services for Max Planck Society. To better protect large volumes of scientific data, the GNZ needed to accelerate their storage backup process and improve their archiving. Read this new case study to learn how they were able to shrink their backup window, reduce costs, help ensure the long-term integrity of their data, and gain scalability to support fast-growing scientific data volumes.

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2. We also announced the release of new DXi software with advanced features and capabilities for DXi backup appliances to significantly improve backup and restore system performance, as well as monitor systems remotely utilizing cloud-based analytics.

IDC’s Phil Goodwin, Research Director, Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and Technologies Group: “Traditional backup and recovery software remains strong, even as organizations add cloud-based backup to their data protection strategies. The combination of a Quantum DXi appliance and Veeam V10 shows great potential for enterprises seeking to protect their vital hybrid-cloud environments. Faster synthetic full backups enabled by this release means that organizations can backup more often, thereby reducing the risk of data loss and delivering a better RPO.”

Read more about this announcement in this Enterprise Talk press coverage .

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3. Check out this new blog by Eric Bassier, Quantum’s Sr. Director of Product Marketing, “Are You Experiencing Unstructured Data Sprawl?” He outlines how “unstructured data sprawl” is the emerging problem that many CIOs and large enterprises are dealing with, and the need to classify the data, how to work with it when you need it, and how to store it safely when you are not actively working with it. 

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4. Speaking of unstructured data sprawl, the need for an archive strategy has never been greater. Check out this in-depth video with industry expert, Fred Moore of Horison Information Strategies, with Dave Vellante on theCUBE, covering the topic of “Reinventing Archives.”

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5. This new SearchStorage article, “On-premises STaaS Shifts Storage Buying to Opex Model,” is a great overview of the growing field of STaaS, and discusses the benefits of a pay-as-you-go subscription model, the flexibility STaaS offers, and the simplified management for customers.

Leave a comment if there are topics you’d like to see added to our weekly top 5 happenings!

Natasha

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Are you Experiencing Unstructured Data Sprawl?

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Internet-connected machines and devices, such as video cameras, high-resolution image capture on manufacturing floors, data logging in connected cars, surveillance cameras, drones, and more are producing massive volumes of unstructured data at the rate of Terabytes per day (and in some cases Terabytes per hour). 

Some quick math:

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We are finding that this “machine and device-generated” unstructured data may not always be visible to CIOs, and large enterprises are suffering from unstructured data sprawl. If you are storing much of this data in the cloud, you may have multiple copies that you are paying for every month.

How Do You Protect and Store Your Unstructured Data for Decades?

The typical approach is to keep doing what you are doing – keep it all on scale-out NAS and try to protect it as best you can. But in the face of the exponential velocity and volume of this data being generated, traditional approaches are breaking down. Compounding the problem is that much of this data needs to be stored and protected for decades. This introduces an added element of complexity – how do you protect multiple PB’s of data and store it cost-effectively for decades?

Taming Unstructured Data Sprawl – How Quantum Can Help

This “unstructured data sprawl” is THE EMERGING PROBLEM that many CIOs and large enterprises are dealing with and Quantum can help through our solution-building expertise and a portfolio of object storage and archive solutions . We’ve been dealing with these datasets for years, we understand how to classify the data, how to work with it when you need it, and store it safely when you are not actively working with it. We’ve built some of the largest archives in the world and we can help you. 

If you are dealing with unstructured data sprawl, give us a call and our experts will help you solve your complex unstructured data needs. We also encourage you to schedule a virtual briefing in our Quantum Executive Briefing Center (EBC), where we assemble our solution experts and best engineers and have a discovery session about your needs. Visit our Quantum EBC page to schedule your visit.

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This Week at the Q

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Welcome to another entry of ‘This Week at the Q’! The best part of my job is telling our customer stories, and learning about their projects, so this was a fun week with case studies and press releases.

  1. My son has never been so excited as to watch his Dodgers last night! He may be their biggest fan, he bleeds blue, but more I could see some small sense of ‘normalcy’ for him with the return of baseball this week. Which makes this SVG article, “Texas Rangers Open Doors to Globe Life Field with Full-IP Control Room” , well timed, as the new field hosts its first official MLB game today! Read about how our partner, Diversified , worked with the Texas Rangers to integrate the control room for in-venue operations, including Quantum storage. Enjoy watching some ball!
  2. This week, we announced the addition of new multi-factor authentication software to our Scalar® i3 and i6 tape libraries. Read this release for more about how this helps secure critical off-line data against ransomware and other cyber attacks.
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3. TVB Europe ran an article, “Nemeton TV Speeds Up Its Sports Content” . Nemeton TV has produced captivating sports content for major broadcast for over 25 years – including the sport of shinty, which was fun to learn about! Read more to learn about Nemeton TV, some of their prior storage challenges, and how Quantum helped them address the rising demand for streaming services.

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4. Quantum joined the Active Archive Alliance . Our recent acquisition of ActiveScaleTM object storage, combined with our leading tape platforms, strengthens our leadership in active archive infrastructure, and we look forward to adding our voice to this Alliance focused on addressing customer needs to retain and manage large unstructured data sets.

5. Storage Consortium featured Quantum customer, Studio Hamburg, in this article, “Digitization of Archived Media at Studio Hamburg – Postproduction with Quantum Storage” (if you don’t speak German, Google translate at the top right will give you the English version!). On top of a growing volume of high-resolution content, a turning point for Studio Hamburg was a large-scale digitization project. Read more about how they were commissioned to digitize an entire film archive, including about 11,000 hours of 16mm and 35mm film.

Leave a comment if there are topics you’d like to see added to our weekly top 5 happenings!

Natasha

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Quantum and Veeam V10: A Perspective from VeeamON 2020

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In the last few weeks, we’ve had the opportunity to co-present with our partner Veeam at Quantum’s VirtualQ I Protect & Archive event, and also engage with Veeam customers at the recent VeeamON 2020 show. And even with so much focus on enabling remote work, enabling hybrid- and multi-cloud infrastructures, and all the new features in Veeam V10, we continue to see interest and engagement when it comes to these topics:

1.  Ransomware protection and 3-2-1-1 data protection practice

A long-time best practice more relevant today than ever, the 3-2-1-1 rule specifies three copies of your data, stored on two different types of media, where one copy is offsite, and one is offline, air-gapped, or immutable. There are a couple of new twists to this rule that we’ve been emphasizing:

  • The first is that the ‘offsite’ copy is increasingly in the cloud. Cloud services from AWS, Azure, and others are growing like crazy, and Veeam and other backup applications can now easily make an offsite copy to the cloud. This can replace recovering tapes from a vault in many cases, which can take a long time and is difficult. However, in this paradigm, tape still plays a role – as an on-premise “offline” copy of your data. Veeam and Quantum continue to advocate keeping a copy on tape, and with the Active Vault feature that Quantum introduced earlier this year as part of our Ransomware Protection Packages , administrators can store backup copies in a totally secure, offline environment without ever handling tapes.
  • The second nuance is this notion of an ‘immutable’ copy of data. LTO tape has had Write Once Read Many (“WORM”) functionality for many years, and combined with its inherent offline nature, AES-256-bit encryption, and it’s low cost and low power, tape is an ideal immutable data vault. But our customers are also looking to use object storage for long-term storage for compliance, and that’s why we are in the process of certifying our ActiveScale object storage system to be Veeam Ready. We expect to make that announcement in July.

2.  It’s all about availability of your production systems and applications

Even with all the new features and many different backup and protection technologies being employed, at the end-of-the-day, it is about maximizing the availability of your production environment. Even protecting applications that run in the cloud. And with Veeam V10 and Quantum DXi (a Veeam Integrated backup repository), we continue to improve performance so our customers can maximize availability with faster backups and restores.  One new feature in Veeam V10 is called Fast Clone, or Block Clone, and the latest version of Quantum DXi software can leverage this feature to dramatically speed up synthetic full backup performance.  Creating a synthetic full backup that use to take hours now can be completed in minutes, and we’ve reduced the strain on the network and Veeam backup infrastructure dramatically. This latest enhancement builds on the Veeam Data Mover Service (VDMS) integration that DXi has had for several years and makes DXi the clear best choice for a Veeam backup repository.

Achieving 3-2-1-1 Data Protection

And now that Quantum can bring together Veeam Integrated backup repositories with DXi, a soon-to-be-Veeam-Ready object store in ActiveScale, and industry-leading tape storage with unique Active Vault software, we are in a truly unique position to deliver infrastructures to Veeam customers, so they can achieve 3-2-1-1 data protection.

See these related resources for more information about Quantum & Veeam solutions:

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This Week at the Q

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Welcome to ‘This Week at the Q’, our blog series that wraps up the week by sharing our Top 5 happenings. Despite being a shorter holiday week, nothing seemed to slow down!

1. TechTarget published an article in SearchDataBackup, “Why Tape-based Backup is Making a Comeback,” highlighting the benefits of modern tape platforms for backup and archive. In this, Diana Salazar, Product Marketing Manager, discusses the value of tape for archiving, the many cost benefits, and air-gapped protection against ransomware: “When you use tape-based backup and physically remove it from the network, you sever the connection and protect it from cyberattacks such as ransomware.”

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2. Since our acquisition of ActiveScale from Western Digital in March, we’ve integrated quickly! We’ve just updated our object storage product page with several resources. With data only increasing in our ever-connected society, we have posted case studies to show how others are protecting and managing mountains of data and extracting more value from it.

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3. We have a new white paper, “Evaluating Adobe Productions using a StorNext Shared Storage Environment,” that describes the results of recent lab-testing with Adobe Productions in Premiere Pro with StorNext . Everett Ward, Technical Marketing Engineer, walks through the test environment and summarizes the results, showing a seamless, collaborative workflow with Adobe Productions and the StorNext file system.

4. This one is for our French-speaking community. Quantum’s Stephane Cardot is featured in a podcast interview, “Le Stockage Objet: Are you ready?” with Le Podcast Français du Stockage. Stephane discusses object storage with hosts Yoann Castillo and Philippe Nicolas.

5. For our customers in Korea, we are hosting a new event, VirtualQ | NAB 2020 – 퀀텀 솔루션 하이라이트 , on July 21st. Please join our local experts, Hoebong Park and Jaekyun Yu, where they will present the latest trends in media and entertainment, and host live Q&A.

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For those of us in the U.S., I wish you all a safe Independence Day remembering we all share the right to freedom and equality.

Natasha

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Crisis Management Strategies for Your Remote Workforce

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We salute all those IT folks working day and night to ensure their organizations continue to be secured and protected while getting ourselves through the current crisis. It is by far one of the most challenging times, but you have pulled us together, so that remote workers can stay connected, secured, and productive for keeping our economies moving forward – after all, we are all in this together.

Racing to Protect Remote Endpoints, Fast

We hit a crisis never seen before and one we are not quite out of it. IT managers all over the world went from zero to 100 mph in 6 seconds because the crisis caught most by surprise and bulldozed right into their data center. Next thing you know, most of your internal customers (employees) had to work remotely, throwing your finely tuned tools and processes off-track. IT managers now had to ensure the laptops assigned to employees were secure and all those endpoints and company data leaving the comfort and security of their four-walls were protected. Needless to say, security and data protectio n shot straight up to the top of the list of priorities and procedures to implement.

Crisis Management Strategies Rolled Up into One Guidebook

This brings me to the reason why we created this guidebook titled, “IT Manager’s Guidebook – Essential Strategies for Data Protection and Business Continuity in Times of Crisis.” It was designed with you in mind because we know when things go off-the-rails, sometimes going back to the basics is the most crucial step for not only recovery and protection, but for mitigating risk as well.

Strategies and Resources for Planning and Being Prepared

We took some of the most important topics that are top-of-mind and rolled them up into one neat handbook to help guide you while you are being pressed to do more with less. We understand you immediately jumped to a reactionary mode to enable your remote workers to do their jobs effectively from home. Ensuring you have the required resources, security/data protection, and cloud services in place to facilitate worker productivity is a monumental ask. We tried to make things easy for you to help you prepare for situations like these since our new normal is essentially planning and preparing for crisis as they arise.

In this guidebook, you will find topics related to what you as IT managers are going through. Topics range from:

Get the IT Manager’s Guidebook Now

We hope you take a moment to review the guidebook – download the IT Manager’s Guidebook .

We want to remind you that we can help you meet and exceed your RPO/RTO guidelines and with your object and cold storage needs, saving you power, cooling, and footprint costs. Learn more about our Enterprise Archive and Backup Solutions here .

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