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Quantum Data Security and Data Privacy

Quantum Data Security and Data Privacy

This document summarizes Quantum policies and product capabilities related to security and overall data privacy. It focuses on topics important to national laws and regulations that are important to our customers.

Re-invent Your Storage Workflows With the Power of NVMe

Re-invent Your Storage Workflows With the Power of NVMe

Flash-based storage can deliver significant performance improvements compared with traditional hard disk drives (HDDs), but until recently, many flash storage systems failed to deliver on their full potential.

Unified Surveillance Platform

Unified Surveillance Platform

A unified server, storage, and networking platform optimized for video surveillance and physical security workloads.

The "Forever" Content Archive

The "Forever” Content Archive

Best Practices and Considerations

The Secret Life of Pets, Minions, and Animation IT

The Secret Life of Pets, Minions, and Animation IT

An Avere FXT Edge filer cluster with ActiveScale™ object storage system offers a cost-effective archive solution for seamless access to petabytes of data.

StorNext Scale-out File Storage Reference Architecture

StorNext Scale-out File Storage Reference Architecture

This white paper is super comprehensive and will explain the architecture of StorNext Scale-out File Storage, describe many of its features and capabilities, and highlight details and patented technology that make it unique!

How to Store and Protect Your Company’s Digital Assets for Decades

How to Store and Protect Your Company’s Digital Assets for Decades

This white paper summarizes the “100-year archive” problem as the chief problem that many CIOs, data scientists, content creators, and security integrators will need to tackle in the next 5-10 years.

A Leading Investment Fund Extends Its Competitive Edge by Deploying ActiveScale™ Cloud

A Leading Investment Fund Extends Its Competitive Edge by Deploying ActiveScale™ Cloud

For cutting-edge investment funds, success increasingly depends on data science. The winners in this space have better talent and deeper insights than competitors—and massive amounts of historical and real-time data to fuel their trading models.

LTO: The New “Enterprise Tape Drive”

LTO: The New “Enterprise Tape Drive”

Over the past 30 years, there have been numerous magnetic tape formats . Nearly all have been retired, leaving three formats: Linear Tape Open (LTO), which is an open standard; and IBM 3592/TS11xx and Oracle 9840, 9940, and T10000 proprietary formats, which are also marketed as “enterprise tape drives.”

EPFL Selects ActiveScale to Preserve 50 Years of Jazz Music

EPFL Selects ActiveScale to Preserve 50 Years of Jazz Music

At EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), the Metamedia Center is dedicated to facilitating technology transfer from research to industry in the areas of multimedia, augmented reality, acoustics, signal processing and others.

Video Surveillance Shared Storage Reference Architecture

Video Surveillance Shared Storage Reference Architecture

Data created by video surveillance (VS) is exploding. More data is created by video surveillance cameras than any other application or industry, worldwide. 1080P full-HD cameras have become the baseline, and 4K cameras are increasingly popular.

3 Steps to Creating a Proactive Strategy Against Ransomware

3 Steps to Creating a Proactive Strategy Against Ransomware

Attackers are now focused on your backup infrastructure. As backup is fast becoming the primary target, establishing security measures that protect your backup infrastructure becomes a critical component to address.

Defending Data Against Ransomware

Defending Data Against Ransomware

Best Practices for the Worst-Case Scenario.

Ransomware Expert Guide

Ransomware Expert Guide

Ending the vicious ransomware cycle requires a change in behavior.

Ingesting, Protecting, and Preserving Data

Ingesting, Protecting, and Preserving Data

StorNext File System delivers end-to-end lifecycle management for unstructured data.

Ransomware Brief

Ransomware Brief

The best Ransomware protection comes with a physical barrier.

Accessing StorNext Self-Describing Objects

Accessing StorNext Self-Describing Objects

Want to run a cloud-based application against data that the StorNext® File System has stored in the cloud? Now you can. Need access to that data from other sites or looking to share files with business partners via the cloud? Now it’s possible. Even if you just want insurance that you can always get your data back from the cloud, through disaster or technology. obsolescence, it’s here.

Canal Extremadura Case Study

Canal Extremadura Case Study

Canal Extremadura supports a large-scale multimedia transformation with a scalable Quantum StorNext archive solution.

British Antarctic Survey Case Study

British Antarctic Survey Case Study

Safeguarding research at sea: British Antarctic Survey backs up scientific data with Quantum Scalar Tape Systems.

ViON Case Study

ViON Case Study

ViON chooses Quantum StorNext File System and Tape Storage for Archive Service.

Scale-out NAS Data Protection

Scale-out NAS Data Protection

Bring efficiency to Scale-out NAS backup and restore, reduce costs by over 50%.

The Anatomy of the 100-Year Archive

The Anatomy of the 100-Year Archive

Preparing for infinite data retention.

The IT Manager’s Guidebook

The IT Manager’s Guidebook

Essential strategies for data protection and business continuity in times of crisis.

Evaluating Adobe Productions Using a StorNext Shared Storage Environment

Evaluating Adobe Productions Using a StorNext Shared Storage Environment

The concept of shared storage has been around for years. During the evolution of shared storage concepts, Quantum has been a pivotal key player in the transformation, from dedicated storage. to shared architecture.

Storage System Considerations in the Digital Era

IDC InfoBrief

Storage System Considerations in the Digital Era.

Managing Unstructured Data Growth Requires a Fresh Approach

IDC Vendor Spotlight

Managing Unstructured Data Growth Requires a Fresh Approach.

StorNext: The Modern File System that Can Supercharge Your Media Workflows

StorNext®: The Modern File System that Can Supercharge Your Media Workflows

As files sizes, bottlenecks, and pipelines increase, it’s important to identify potential new requirements for storing your media content. In order to allow team members to execute to the maximum potential, workflows must be optimized for flexibility, balance, scale, cost and performance.

Defining Storage Requirements for Color Correction

Defining Storage Requirements for Color Correction

Whether your post-production studio is helping to create feature-length films or 30-second commercials, color correction is a vital part of your workflow. We understand the demands to deliver amazing content under tight deadlines.

Five Best Practices for Preparing In-House IT for Corporate Video Workflows

Five Best Practices for Preparing In-House IT for Corporate Video Workflows

Corporate video use case that provides the 5 best practices for preparing in-house IT for corporate video workflows.

Why Invest In LTO?

Why Invest In LTO?

Technical details of LTO tape drives, design, performance metrics and reliability statistics.

Your Backups Won’t Be Affected by Ransomware with This Last Line of Defense

Your Backups Won’t Be Affected by Ransomware with This Last Line of Defense

Ransomware is just one of many threats that can impact your business data. With a 5X increase in attacks and 6X in new variants, prepare yourself with a solid backup strategy to protect your environment to limit any incident or vulnerabilities.