Quantum Collaborates With Supermicro

Quantum Corporation is collaborating with Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Supermicro) to deliver object storage solutions to customers demanding the ability to extract more value from their increasing data stores.

The engagement enables Supermicro’s customers, resellers, and integrators to purchase scalable, software-defined object storage software to manage and monetize massive amounts of unstructured data.

Combined with Supermicro high-density, high-capacity servers, the solution delivers the scale, flexibility, and performance required for massive data workloads. Enterprises will deploy the new technology to enable enterprise archiving services, genomic research, AI/deep learning and other applications where large-scale data management and analysis is critical.

“We are excited about this relationship as a new route to market for ActiveScale,” said Liz King, chief revenue officer, Quantum. “Our latest version of ActiveScale software enables performance at any scale, from terabytes to EBs, without compromising data availability or durability. By combining this software with high-capacity, high-density servers from Supermicro, we provide a best-in-class object storage platform that meets the extreme scale and performance of the most demanding enterprise data workloads.“

Next-Gen Storage Architecture Addresses Desire to Increase Data Access and Value
Massive data growth driven by digital transformation, video, imagery and telemetry data, and web-scale operations are putting pressure on IT budgets and teams. At the same time, these organizations are looking to unlock the value in this data to drive new innovations and new business models.

ActiveScale software on the latest gen Supermicro servers enables organizations to leverage their data without requiring budgets to scale at the same pace. 

“CombiningActiveScale object storage software with Supermicro’s high-density server and storage systems delivers to customers solutions that optimize complex and unstructured data sets“, said Don Clegg, SVP, WW sales, Supermicro. “Supermicro’s most integrated and highest-capacity systems, such as Ultra, BigTwin and SuperBlade, along with Supermicro’s significant time-to-market advantage, are ideal for the global data management market.“

The ActiveScale object storage software is available for purchase worldwide through Supermicro’s extensive network of resellers and systems integrators.

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