Australian Amidata Implemented Quantum ActiveScale Object Storage as Foundation for Secure Cloud Storage Service

Quantum Corp. announced that Amidata has implemented its ActiveScale object storage as the foundation for their Amidata Secure Cloud Storage Service.

After building successful BaaS and file sharing service offerings on Quantum Dxi backup appliances and StorNext file systems, Amidata has deployed ActiveScale object storage to build a secure, resilient set of cloud storage services accessible from across all of Australia, where the company is based. By deploying ActiveScale, it achieves simple operational efficiency, scalability, and the ability to address customer needs across a range of use cases, workflows, and price points.

Amidata’s adoption of object storage also aligns with current IT trends.

“More and more organizations are looking at object storage to create secure and massively scalable hybrid clouds,” says Michael Whelan, MD, Amidata. “ActiveScale provides a durable, cost-effective approach for backing up and archiving fast-growing data volumes while also protecting data from ransomware attacks. Plus, by deploying the ActiveScale Cold Storage feature, we are delivering multiple storage classes as part of our service offerings, allowing us to target a wider set of customers and use cases. With our Secure Cloud cold storage option, customers can retain data longer and at a lower cost; that’s useful for offsite copies, data compliance, and increasingly, for storing the growing data sets that are fueling AI-driven business analytics and insights.”

As an industry’s object storage platform architected for both active and cold data, ActiveScale supports multiple S3-compatible storage classes using flash, disk, and tape medias, providing an environment that can flexibly grow capacity and performance to any scale. Cold Storage, a key ActiveScale feature, integrates Quantum Scalar tape libraries as a lower cost storage class to store cold and archived data sets. The company’s tape libraries are nearline storage, where customers can access and retrieve cold or less used data with slightly longer latency – minutes instead of seconds – but at a low cost, leveraging the same infrastructure used by the major hyperscalers. ActiveScale Cold Storage stores and protects data across all storage resources using the firm‘s patented 2-D erasure coding to achieve data durability, performance, availability, and storage efficiency.

“With our Secure Cloud Storage service, we are delivering resilient and affordable storage services at any scale, based on Quantum ActiveScale,” says Whelan. “With 7×24 support, no egress charges, and a flexible set of professional services, we maximize the benefits our customers achieve working with Amidata and our cloud storage offering. ActiveScale provides us with a simple, scalable infrastructure to economically store, access, and protect our customer’s data across the entire lifecycle of their data.”

In addition to the Quantum solutions they already offer, Amidata is evaluating other company’s solutions to deliver complete end-to-end offerings for data across the lifecycle, like the DXi Cloud Share which enables archiving of backup data sets from across core, cloud, and edge environments directly to Amidata’s Secure Cloud Storage Service.

“Having partnered with Amidata for many years, we are delighted by their success and inspired by their entrepreneurship, innovation, and customer-centric culture,” says Bruno Hald, GM, secondary storage, Quantum. “Amidata is a truly tech-savvy, world-class organization. They understand that customers need complete end-to-end solutions to manage the deluge of data they are generating and to derive value from that data, from high-performance storage solutions to backup and long-term archiving. We look forward to our continued collaboration as they expand their service offerings to include ActiveScale and other Quantum solutions in the future.”

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Video case study: Amidata’s implementation of ActiveScale