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This Week at the Q

CMMA Blog

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

  1. We really enjoyed meeting with customers at the IBC Showcase, even if it was through a computer. If you missed the IBC Workflow Tour, you can watch on-demand here , where Quantum’s Eric Bassier (starting at minute 9:20) highlights our latest storage solutions for media and post production, as well as the latest trends shaping our technology roadmap, such as remote online editing, hybrid- and multi-cloud workflows, and ‘forever’ content archives. Hopefully we’ll all be back in Amsterdam next year!
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2. We have a new web page highlighting our scale-out NAS protection solution. It highlights how you may achieve >50% in data protection cost savings (even if the scale-out NAS cluster isn’t Quantum), and includes a TCO calculator that allows you determine the specific costs savings for your environment. Read more here.

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3. Digital Media World published a great feature article on Studio FAMU. Read more here about how this film school centralized storage to support more than 450 projects a year and enable students to work from anywhere.

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4. The best part of my week is when I get to hear about customer experiences. This new Gartner peer review from a Quantum object storage customer highlights our collaboration to manage a large audiovisual archive.

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5. AiThority published coverage of how Genomics England implemented a new object storage solution to enable them to sequence millions of genomes in the quest to beat COVID-19.  Read more here.

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

Natasha

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This Week at the Q

CMMA Blog

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

1. For every ransomware attack we see in the news, there are hundreds of others that don’t get reported. And with each successful attack comes downtime, revenue losses, and damaged reputation. Diana Salazar, Product Marketing Manager, published a new blog, “The Best Ransomware Protection Comes with a Physical Layer.” As cyber criminals get more sophisticated to penetrate networks and take control of digital assets, read how ‘offline’ Active Vault technology can add a security layer for ransomware protection.

2. Announcing LTO-9 – read more here ! The new LTO generation 9 delivers 18 TB of native capacity per cartridge (up to 45 TB with a typical compression of 2.5:1). As organizations manage ever-growing unstructured data, LTO-9’s capacity, density and performance enhances Quantum Scalar tape library capabilities to archive this data securely and reliably, with minimal management.

LTO-9 will be available in Quantum Scalar i6 and i6000 tape libraries, and StorNext AEL archive systems, beginning in December 2020, and in Scalar i3 and i500, SuperLoader 3 and stand-alone drives in the first quarter of 2021. Information on our LTO-9 pre-purchase program can be found here .

3. This week, insideHPC covered Genomics England’s work to sequence millions of genomes, and how their storage environment expanded from 40 PB to more than 100 PB as they expanded to sequence the genomes of up to 35,000 people with the COVID-19 virus. Their new environment is also helping reduce storage costs by 75% per genome. Read more here .

4. Will you be at the Critical National Infrastructure online event , September 15-16? We’d love to connect! You can also learn about our security infrastructure portfolio, including NVR recording servers, hyperconverged appliances, video analytics services, and archive storage, here .

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5. Join us and our partner, ViON, at this special virtual event, “Managing the Cost and Complexity of Data Storage within Federal Agencies.” What goes better with an informative webinar on archiving, data retention and disaster recovery than a great cup of coffee? Joining the conversation on keeping pace in an Exabyte world, when data growth is explosive and budget is tight, is USMC veteran and owner of Axhead Coffee Roasters, Jesse Jordan, who will also share his insights on making a great cup of coffee. All attendees will receive a complimentary package of Axhead’s most popular coffee!

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

Natasha

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This Week at the Q

Archive

Welcome to another entry of ‘This Week at the Q’! On a personal note, it felt like a busy week juggling back to school, with schools here in San Diego still 100% virtual, as I took on my second job as teacher, but as I close out the week with our top 5 happenings I realize it may have just been a busy week all around!

  1. It’s great to see one of our sports production customers featured in ProductionHUB! For Nemeton TV, an increased demand for streaming services, a rising number of corporate sponsors streaming sporting events on their corporate websites, and distributing clips through social media, created a whole new area of business. Read here how a new storage infrastructure enabled new business opportunity.
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2. Storage Newsletter also ran a great article covering our new DXi software. Read more here on how the features and capabilities in this new software release improve enterprise data protection.

3. Speaking of our new DXi software, Diana Salazar, Product Marketing Manager, published this new blog: “Looking for Faster Backups? From Hours to Minutes? Look No Further.”  Read for deeper insights into how our new DXi 4.1 software release enables the lowest-cost, scalable, durable storage, that meets service-level agreements and security requirements for data protection.

4. We have a new webinar coming up, “The Anatomy of a 100-Year Archive for Unstructured Data” , featuring industry expert Fred Moore of Horison Information Strategies. Join us on Sept. 22nd @ 8am PT to learn how to protect and manage rapidly growing unstructured datasets for decades to come.

5. And to close out the week, we published a new StorNext file system datasheet, including more detailed information on features and functionality, and new architecture diagrams. You can learn more in this new StorNext datasheet here .

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

Natasha

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This Week at the Q

CMMA Blog

Welcome to another entry of ‘This Week at the Q’!

  1. It’s been a great week talking about the benefits of StorNext, including with a customer in healthcare using StorNext for radiology and imaging. They need the high performance it provides so that multiple researchers can access the data at the same time, with support for many different platforms running different applications.  They also integrated a tape archive to be able to preserve and protect their MRI image data for the long term, so it can be analyzed and studied again in the future. We’ve been adding these healthcare and genomics customer case studies to our website. Learn more about these, and StorNext, here . 
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2. Studio FAMU , the fifth-oldest film school in the world, recently spent some time with us to share how they offer extensive film production and post-production resources to support a world-class TV and film education. To provide the data storage required for coursework and film projects from the school’s 500 students, the studio implemented Quantum StorNext and a tape archive. The platform delivers scalable storage with simple, remote access to files. An integrated Quantum tape library allows for long-term preservation of student work. Remote access to work proved to be especially beneficial when COVID-19 reached Europe. “We’ve been very happy to have the Quantum solution during this challenging time. With Quantum StorNext, it’s very easy to share anything with students, professors, and other organizations—wherever they are in the world.”

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3. Speaking of archival video, I love the creativity of this new commercial and the amazing editing that went into repurposing this archival footage. Great to see a Quantum customer involved in its creation!

4. Great coverage in StorageNewsletter this week of our new Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). Earlier this year, we announced the use of Scalar Active Vault to move tapes into an offline vault within a library for ransomware protection. Deploying tape with Active Vault protects against ransomware, and can be combined with tape’s other capabilities that make it very secure – AES 256-bit encryption, and Write Once Read Many (WORM) media for immutability. Following up on customer feedback, we’ve now added MFA to our Scalar i3 and i6 tape libraries, to provide another layer of secure protection for critical data.

5. Last week I shared our news that Quantum is honored to add our voice to the Active Archive Alliance, a community focused on addressing customer needs to retain and manage large unstructured data sets. Check out this recent blog from Mark Pastor to understand more about why we’re passionate about joining this Alliance.

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

Natasha

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This Week at the Q

Archive

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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This Week at the Q

CMMA Blog

Welcome to another entry of ‘This Week at the Q’. I always enjoy wrapping up the week sharing our Top 5 happenings, and when I pull it together I’m always surprised by how much the week brought!

  1. Unstructured data is expected to grow threefold by 2024, but regardless of the specific growth number we know from our customers that handling unstructured data is something we’re all dealing with. The challenge is not just about capacity, but also management, accessibility, protection and archiving. This new article, published in online magazine Digital Media World, talks about object storage for the practical, durable, scalable archive of video assets: “Object Storage -Managing Video Data for M&E Workflows”. Not in the media and entertainment industry? Video is a key form of unstructured data – it’s still worth a read!
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2. We really enjoyed talking with Veeam customers at the recent VeeamON 2020! Check out this new blog, “Quantum and Veeam V10: A Perspective from VeeamON 2020” , highlighting some of our conversations around ransomware protection, maximizing the availability of production systems, and achieving 3-2-1-1 data protection.

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3. Our blog series on remote work continues, and in this week’s “ What Does your Remote World Look Like” , Jessica Iler highlights the many advantages of a decentralized workforce, and discusses better use of available technologies.

4. Quantum Ransomware Protection Packs include all the hardware and software needed to protect and secure data from ransomware and other cyber-threats. Learn more in our new brochure (as always, your local Quantum team can provide regional implementation info), with more details on how tape storage is your best last line of defense on our ransomware protection web page – cyber criminals can’t hold for ransom what they can’t access over the network.

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5. It’s always fun working with our customers – but double the fun when we’re working with both a good partner and customer! So I really enjoyed seeing this social post from our partner Chesapeake Systems this week.







Are there topics you’d like to see added?  Just leave a comment!


Natasha


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