From video surveillance to seismic exploration to DNA research, companies are experiencing tremendous growth in unstructured Big Data. This content is very high in volume, is often difficult or impossible to recreate, and is of utmost value to the business or institution. Quantum's StorNext Appliances are purpose-built for Big Data and provide customers with scalable, high-performance solutions that are cost-effective and easy to manage. The StorNext tiered storage solutions include the StorNext Q-Series, a family of primary disk systems that are optimized to deliver high performance in demanding Big Data environments.
Key Features and Benefits
- Performance, scalability and density – designed for use in demanding StorNext Big Data environments
- Extremely high performance - Performance up to 3.6GB/s sequential writes and 3.2GB/s sequential reads
- Extensive high availability features available-including dual-active controllers with automated I/O path failover
- Encrypted data security - Full Disk Encryption (FDE) drives and SafeStore Drive Security Encryption PFK available
- Purpose-built for StorNext environments – Q-Series is for purchase with StorNext appliances and
- StorNext software-or can be added to existing StorNext deployments
- World-class support from one vendor – all software, hardware and support come from the experts at Quantum
Overview
StorNext Q-Series Storage is designed to meet the unique requirements of managing Big Data, allowing customers to store and manipulate data at very high rates. The Q-Series family includes four models—the QD6000, QS2400, QS1200, and QM1200—all purpose-built and configured for optimal high performance with StorNext, and designed to deliver a blend of performance, scalability, and density. StorNext Q-Series Storage can be combined with StorNext's unique policy-based tiering capabilities to allow customers to have virtually unlimited space for Big Data. With StorNext Solutions for Big Data, you get the performance and scalability you need while significantly lowering your total cost of ownership relative to traditional storage approaches.
