Joint Solution From Quantum and Komprise

Quantum Corp. and Komprise Inc. announced a joint solution which enables organizations to integrate archive storage into their active workflows to cope with exponential data growth within tight budgets.

The combination of Komprise data management software and services with Quantum Lattus Object Storage or Artico active archive solutions delivers scalable capacity and automated data movement without disrupting users or applications. The joint solution includes embedded ROI analysis to provide insights to users about when investments in storage will meet specific ROI targets. This is a scale-out data management solution that runs as a service, and it can help customers save 70% or more of the cost of storing, protecting and accessing data.

Fighting a Common Enemy: Data Sprawl
To address the management challenges posed by massive data growth under flat budgets, Quantum and Komprise have united scale-out efficiency with modern simplicity, on-demand scalability and data-aware automation.

Lattus object storage delivers cost-efficient capacity, data protection and resiliency with a simple-to-operate, simple-to-scale private cloud architecture. Artico is a self-protecting, active archive appliance that automates tiering to tape, private cloud and public cloud via user-definable policies to deliver the optimal combination of data access, performance and storage cost.

Komprise data management software manages data across storage infrastructures. It extends existing primary storage by automatically and continuously identifying and moving less active data to Quantum’s capacity storage – transparent to users and applications, which continue to access the moved files without any changes in their processes. Komprise deploys in minutes as a virtual appliance – no agents, complex configurations or special hardware required.

15-Minute Assessment Can Reveal Savings
Komprise offers insights into data composition and growth across existing storage. In just 15 minutes, customers can install a Komprise virtual appliance, learn how data is growing and being used across existing storage, interactively model data movement policies and understand the ROI of moving less active data to Quantum storage. Users can store terabytes to petabytes of unstructured data files at a fraction of the cost of cloud storage or primary spinning disk.

The Quantum-Komprise solution is available through distributors in North America.

Jason Buffington, principal analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, said: “Organizations of all sizes are struggling with storage growth, but many of those struggles could be alleviated if folks adopted any amount of ongoing archiving or data management. The first two and most important aspects of any archival strategy are 1) know what you have versus what you are actively using, and 2) use a reliable and agile repository to keep everything else needed for compliance, for future analysis or potential value. With that in mind, the combination of Komprise and Quantum looks to be very appealing.“

Krishna Subramanian, president and COO, Komprise, said: “Our data management-as-a-service simplifies and transforms how businesses handle the two biggest problems with data – managing its explosive growth painlessly while unlocking data value. When combined with Quantum’s scale-out storage solutions, customers now have a way to reign in the complexity and expense of these challenges.“

Geoff Stedman, SVP, marketing and scale-out storage solutions, Quantum, said: “Customers understand the need to implement an archive strategy to deal with the unstructured data explosion, but they worry about impacting data access. Quantum archive storage combined with Komprise analytics-based data movement enables them to reap the ROI benefits of archive in a none-disruptive and highly scalable manner.“