CELEBRATING

Celebrating 40 years of Innovation

OF INNOVATION

1980

1980 - EARLY PIONEER IN HARD DRIVE TECHNOLOGY

EARLY PIONEER IN HARD DRIVE

TECHNOLOGY

(sold business in 2001)

1994

1994 - QUANTUM ACQUIRES DEC’S DATA
STORAGE DIVISION

QUANTUM ACQUIRES DEC’S DATA
STORAGE DIVISION

1994 - INDUSTRY LEADER
IN MAGNETIC TAPE TECHNOLOGY WITH DLT

INDUSTRY LEADER
IN MAGNETIC TAPE TECHNOLOGY WITH DLT

1998

1998 - QUANTUM ACQUIRES ATL PRODUCTS

QUANTUM ACQUIRES ATL PRODUCTS,
DIVERSIFYING AUTOMATED TAPE LIBRARY LINE

1999

1999 - FIRST StorNext® FILE SYSTEM 
IN PRODUCTION

FIRST StorNext® FILE SYSTEM

IN PRODUCTION

2002

2002 - FIRST VTL (Virtual Tape Library)

FIRST VTL (Virtual Tape Library)
DISK-BASED BACKUP SYSTEMS

2003

2003 - INDUSTRY’S FIRST INTELLIGENT TAPE LIBRARIES

INDUSTRY’S FIRST INTELLIGENT TAPE LIBRARIES
WITH Scalar® iLayer™ SOFTWARE

2005

2005 - JOINS LTO CONSORTIUM, 
BEGINS PRODUCING LTO TAPE DRIVES

JOINS LTO CONSORTIUM,
BEGINS PRODUCING LTO TAPE DRIVES

(via Certance acquisition)

2006

2006 - ADIC ACQUIRES ROCKSOFT

ADIC ACQUIRES ROCKSOFT

(inventor of variable-length deduplication)
FOUNDATION FOR QUANTUM'S DXi® DEDUPLICATION APPLIANCES.

2006 - QUANTUM ACQUIRES ADIC

QUANTUM ACQUIRES ADIC

INCLUDES THEIR StorNext FILE SYSTEM, DEDUPLICATION SYSTEM,
AND Scalar TAPE TECHNOLOGIES.

2011

2011 - QUANTUM ACQUIRES PANCETERA,

QUANTUM ACQUIRES PANCETERA, VIRTUALIZATION

AND VM BACKUP TECHNOLOGY

2012

2012 - OBJECT STORAGE & CLOUD-BASED STORAGE SERVICES

OBJECT STORAGE & CLOUD-BASED

STORAGE SERVICES

2013

2013 - StorNext RE-ARCHITECTED FOR PERFORMANCE & SCALE WITH StorNext 5

StorNext RE-ARCHITECTED FOR PERFORMANCE

& SCALE WITH StorNext 5

2015

2015 - MULTI-TIER STORAGE SOLUTIONS FOR LARGE UNSTRUCTURED DATA SETS

MULTI-TIER STORAGE SOLUTIONS FOR

LARGE UNSTRUCTURED DATA SETS

2016

2016 - FIRST ARCHIVE-ENABLED TAPE LIBRARIES WITH POLICY-BASED DATA INTEGRITY CHECKING

FIRST ARCHIVE-ENABLED TAPE LIBRARIES WITH
POLICY-BASED DATA INTEGRITY CHECKING

2018

2018 - IN-VEHICLE STORAGE FOR MOBILE & EDGE DATA CAPTURE

IN-VEHICLE STORAGE FOR MOBILE
AND EDGE DATA CAPTURE

2019

2019 - NVMe STORAGE FOR HIGH-SPEED INGEST & PROCESSING

NVMe STORAGE FOR HIGH-SPEED INGEST & PROCESSING
OF VIDEO & LARGE UNSTRUCTURED DATA SETS

2019 - Storage-as-a-Service

Storage-as-a-Service
PAY-PER-USE SUBSCRIPTION

2019 - SURVEILLANCE MARKET EXPANSION

SURVEILLANCE MARKET EXPANSION
CAPTURE & STORAGE PLATFORM FOR VIDEO FOOTAGE

2020

2020 - QUANTUM ACQUIRES 
WESTERN DIGITAL'S ActiveScale BUSINESS

QUANTUM ACQUIRES
WESTERN DIGITAL'S ActiveScale BUSINESS