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This Week at the Q

CMMA Blog

Welcome to another entry of our top 5 highlights in ‘This Week at the Q’. It’s always fun to look back on the week and realize how much happened!

  1. What great news that Quantum ActiveScaleTM object storage automatically complies with the new strong consistency requirements with Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) applications. We made a conscious decision to design ActiveScale with data integrity and durability at its core, so strong consistency has always been one of the platform’s key capabilities. Read more in our press release here .
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2. We really enjoyed being part of Tech Field Day on December 9th! This event brought together a great group of technical experts across the industry to explore the technology underpinnings of our ActiveScale object storage for private cloud. You can listen to the sessions on the Quantum Presents page on the Tech Field Day website .

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3. The “Challenges of Long-Term Archiving,” published in BroadcastTech, outlines the long-term challenges of looking after irreplaceable content. One of the biggest issues that organizations face is protecting and maximizing valuable content, like the first Star Wars film or the Super Bowl. The article highlights the need for an intelligent and highly secure long-term storage infrastructure. Read more in BroadcastTech .

4. Another great article was published this week as part of the Post Magazine ‘Outlook’ series, “Long-Term Archiving & Remote Production will be Critical.” Read more in Post for more on these two important and growing trends as we enter 2021.

5. Our DXi9100 launched this week! This new appliance offers efficiency for enterprise backup storage, with less footprint than other solutions, ultra-fast performance, and the ability to protect PBs of data. The DXi9100 also provides an extra layer of security to protect against data breaches using industry-standard AES 256-bit encryption with Self-Encrypting Drives, also applied to data-in-flight. Learn more in this new DXi9100 blog .

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Natasha

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This Week at the Q

ActiveScale

Welcome to another entry of ‘This Week at the Q’ and our top 5 highlights.

  1. With our recently announced ActiveScaleTM Object Lock feature for data immutability, your data can be protected from malicious acts such as data deletion, relocation, and ransomware. We now have a new video explaining how this works – watch here !
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2. And for more advice to proactively combat the onslaught of ransomware attacks and the elements needed for a solid data protection plan, read more in this Security Magazine blog, “End the vicious ransomware cycle.”

3. Quantum will be at Tech Field Day on December 9th, from 8-10am PT! This event brings together a group of technical influencers and experts to explore the technical underpinnings and architectures of invited vendors. If you want to learn more about our ActiveScale object storage for private cloud, the event is live streamed and you can follow along live via Twitter @TechFieldDay or online during the time slots below:

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Time (PT) Section Speaker
8:00AM Quantum Company Overview Ed Fiore, General Manager
8:20AM ActiveScale Object Storage Intro Thomas Demoor, Lead Architect
9:00AM ActiveScale Layered Architecture  Thomas Demoor, Lead Architect
9:20 AM ActiveScale Product Summary Thomas Demoor, Lead Architect
9:30AM ActiveScale Product Demo Sherman Schorzman, Technical Marketing Engineer

4. We also recently launched our all-new All-Terrain File System, ATFS. Hear from early customer, The Hormel Institute, University of MN, about how they accelerated cancer research and improved ROI using ATFS’s zero-touch data classification and automated policies for data mobility. Read their case study here.

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5. And one more ATFS case study! The production experts at 5 guys named Moe had challenges ingesting multiple tapes (assume tape equals a movie or season episode) in parallel, tracking the progress of data through the workflow stages, and managing resources for productivity. Read their case study here to see how Quantum ATFS data insights and automation meet storage needs for productivity and profitability improvements.

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Natasha

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This Week at the Q

ActiveScale

Welcome to another entry of ‘This Week at the Q’ and our top 5 highlights. It’s been a busy week continuing the product announcements from our expanded portfolio!

1. Continuing on the news from last week’s launch of our new expanded portfolio – covered here in Blocks & Files – this week we announced more details around our next-gen StorNext® 7 high-performance file system and ActiveScaleTM object storage advancements.

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2. This new byline by Matt Dewey on “Managing Complex Object Stores” just published in Disaster Recovery Journal. Object stores have found a home in the cloud and in data centers, becoming the repository for long-lived and high-value data. Read more here to learn about use cases for object storage, its advantages in key markets, as well as some of the challenges it can present and what to consider.

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3. We enjoyed connecting with the high-performance computing community this week at the virtual SC20 event. If we missed you, you can still check out this video interview we did with InsideHPC, “At Virtual SC20: Quantum Corp. Takes on High Performance Storage of Unstructured Data.”

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4. Check out this new blog post, “Cyber Insurance Market is Evolving Due to Ransomware Demands.” You can learn how the cyber security insurance market is evolving amidst an increase in ransomware demands and payments. Insurance companies are starting to move the risk over to subscribers, requiring stricter controls. Read more here.

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5. One of the reasons I love working at Quantum is the culture and the people I get to work with every day, and it is most definitely an honor to work with Liz King! Get to know Quantum’s CRO a little more in this new Authority Magazine article, ”Women of the C-Suite: Liz King of Quantum.”

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Natasha

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This Week at the Q

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Welcome to another entry of ‘This Week at the Q’ and our top 5 highlights!

1. We have some great new explainer videos highlighting some key features of our ActiveScaleTM software that ensure data availability and integrity with a hands-off experience. Intelligent Dynamic Data Placement (DDP) and Dynamic Data Repair (DDR) are key to data’s long-term viability by monitoring data health and providing repair when errors are discovered. Learn more about DDP here and DDR here .

2. Customer success is always a favorite highlight in our week! This week we feature Canal Extremadura in Spain. As they made the transformation from a traditional radio and TV business to a modern multimedia corporation, they also needed to revamp a complex and aging IT infrastructure. Quantum collaborated and provided the content access and scalability needed for an evolving business.  Read more in Canal Extremadura’s case study here .

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3. Check out this new case study from our partner, Chesa. Cortina Productions, located in the DC metro area, designs and produces multimedia experiences for museums, cultural institutions, visitor centers, and aquariums across the world. With 4D theaters, and AR and VR experiences, they’re on the forefront of technology. We’re proud to have partnered with Chesa to help manage Cortina’s data more efficiently and with improved accessibility to support their more complex projects and rapid growth.

4. Want to run a cloud-based application against data that StorNext® has stored in the cloud? Need access to that data from other sites? Looking to share files with business partners via the cloud? It’s all possible! Read more in this new blog from Dan Duperron.

5. Did you miss our pumpkin carving event? Learn from the master pumpkin carver from Maniac Pumpkin Carvers. You can check out the replay here – and enter our contest by posting your photos with hashtag #QuantumTransformedPumpkins. We will announce winners on social media!

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Natasha

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This Week at the Q

CMMA Blog

We can’t walk the red carpet because… 2020… but ‘This Week at the Q’ we had a blast accepting our Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award virtually! We also have updates to help manage and gain insights from machine-generated data, improve cloud content accessibility, and guidance on the new ransomware advisory from the U.S. Department of Treasury.

1. Our CEO, Jamie Lerner, sat down with CRN’s Joe Kovar to talk all things Quantum! Take a look at the modern Quantum in ‘CEO Jamie Lerner on Quantum’s NVMe, Edge Computing Focus,’ including a sneak peek at StorNext 7!

2. And following that sneak peek at our next-gen StorNext, we were thrilled to find out this week that our current StorNext 6.4 won a 2020 NAB Show Product of the Year Award! StorNext 6.4 is all about delivering greater flexibility for customers, enabling hybrid- and multi-cloud storage use cases. In addition, it offers improved read/write performance for cloud and object store, and includes StorNext Dynamic Library Pooling allowing multiple libraries for redundancy enhancements, and AWS Glacier archive service support. Learn more here.

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3. More than 44 exabytes of machine-generated data is created every day, and with the right tools it can provide valuable insights for intelligent decision making, innovation and business growth. The best-known tool for analyzing this machine data is Splunk. But if you’re generating terabytes of machine data every day, it can be difficult to maintain a year or even 6 months’ worth of data before traditional storage infrastructures run out of space.  Quantum’s ActiveScale object storage enables Splunk users to scale storage infrastructures independently from compute, allowing you to add petabytes of storage to your Splunk environment without adding a single indexer. Learn how to gain vital competitive advantage in this new solution brief .

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4. Making ransomware payments is now a national security issue, based on a new advisory recently issued by the U.S. Department of Treasury. You can reduce your risk of violating Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) regulations by protecting your network in layers with a true air-gapped copy of your organization’s data.  Learn more in this new blog, “Thinking of Paying Ransomware Hackers? You May Face Sanctions .”

5. That’s right – that’s an Emmy! Our amazing Engineering team was recognized for their data management innovation. The Technology & Engineering Emmy Award was the first Emmy Award issued in 1949 and it laid the groundwork for all the other Emmys to come. We’re honored to be recognized by National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) for our contributions in this vibrant industry. We may not be able walk the red carpet while we physically distance, but we still had a blast with our virtual acceptance!

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This Week at the Q

Archive

Today sees the last day of Quantum’s amazing ‘Summer Hours’ program, but I’m getting ‘This Week at the Q’ live before heading out to enjoy it! It’s been wonderful to enjoy every other Friday off over the summer, and spend some time with my kids on our camping adventures!  So for this week’s Top 5 happenings…

1. We’ve been hearing from customers about the need to protect and retain data for decades, and in many cases the need for a ‘forever archive’ or ‘100-year archive’. Couple this with massive growth in unstructured data, and the need to be able to search and analyze this data, and building a modern data archiving strategy has become a key strategy for enterprises. This week, industry expert Fred Moore of Horison Information Strategies joined us on “The Anatomy of a 100-Year Archive for Unstructured Data” to discuss the scale of unstructured data growth, the applications fueling archive requirements, and the anatomy of the 100-year archive enterprises should consider. The replay is available here .

2. Like the webinar? We have a new white paper to go with it! Read “Anatomy of the 100-Year Archive” , by Fred Moore of Horison Information Strategies, to learn when data reaches archival status, data classification guidelines, the role of blocks, files and objects, and the various capabilities that enable an archive for the ages.

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3. Another topic we’re hearing from customers more and more, is ransomware protection. For every ransomware attack we see in the news, there are hundreds of others that don’t get reported. Virus strains and cyber criminals have become increasingly insidious in their attempts to penetrate networks and take control of all digital assets, including backups. A virus cannot bypass a physical barrier formed between your data and the network nor a logical barrier based on data immutability. A solution doesn’t have to be expensive or complex to be effective.  Register for our upcoming live webinar on October 22, “Protect Your Data with a Layered Ransomware Approach.”

4. Having a contingency plan in the event of unforeseen operational disruptions is good business. Whether it’s to deal with the current COVID-19 pandemic or in anticipation of a potential natural disaster, our customers build continuity plans with the technology needed to keep business operations afloat, as well as ensuring employees are trained in using remote working technologies. Quantum’s Diana Salazar covers the “Top Three Data Continuity Techniques Businesses Need to Adopt Now” in her recently published byline in Data Centre Dynamics.

5. We love hosting industry friends at our Executive Briefing Center! It was great to spend time with Philippe Nicolas, founder of Coldago Research and Storage Newsletter editor, in our Englewood, Colorado offices to tour our labs and talk roadmap. So good to start reconnecting in person again, even if we are masked up and touring 6 feet apart!

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Natasha

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