Quantum Lattus-D With CommVault Simpana 10

Quantum Corp. is extending its object storage offerings by joining with CommVault Systems, Inc. to provide a solution for converged backup and archive in the data center.

Based on Quantum’ Lattus object storage technology and CommVault Simpana 10 software, the validated solution enables a data protection and archive strategy that reduces primary storage costs and optimizes backup performance while minimizing management complexity, administrative overhead and capital expenditures in multi-petabyte environments.

Combining Lattus and Simpana
Enable Converged Data Center
Lattus provides nearline access to archived data across global locations in a scalable and cost-effective disk-based solution that never requires a ‘forklift’ upgrade – a forever disk archive. It offers greater durability than traditional RAID offerings, including true self-healing and self-protection capabilities, and enables automatic multi-site protection without the need for replication. The result is a highly resilient, disaster tolerant, scalable archival repository that doesn’t need to be backed up.

Simpana unifies backup, archive, reporting and DR on a single software platform, providing a converged data management solution to control cost and risk. With the combination of Lattus-D and Simpana, enterprises can now a single instance of archive data on Lattus and be confident that it is retained in a manner that can exceed the protection offered by traditional redundant copy data protection schemes. Customers can also benefit from low-latency access delivered on a global scale.

Cloud-Based Object Storage to Data Center
Lattus-D capitalizes on Simpana’s backup, archive and DR management capabilities, integrating with Simpana via an S3 REST interface. In turn, Simpana software leverages the native Lattus REST API to offer cloud archive technology for petabyte-scale environments and simple, automated data movement and management. As a result, data center customers can realize the benefits of private cloud storage.

Cloud-Scale Lattus Implementation
Quantum also recently established the Lattus Demo Lab, located inside Switch’s state of the art SUPERNAP data centers and available for use. With this announcement customers will now be able to leverage Lattus within the SUPERNAP data centers as a cloud-based component of their data protection strategy.

Jeff Echols, senior director, WW product marketing and business development, CommVault, said: "Enterprises are turning to modern data management strategies to help ensure their data is always available on the most efficient storage and improve their ability to respond to business needs. CommVault’s Simpana 10 software platform increases the value of information by intelligently archiving data and allowing IT and end-users alike to repurpose it in innovative ways. Lattus-D offers an excellent self-protecting container for archive data, and together Lattus and Simpana 10 create an ideal combination to economically protect data that might otherwise be kept on primary disk."

Dave Russell, senior analyst, Gartner, said: "IT organizations that fail to optimize data retention and the number of data copies will suffer continuously increasing storage costs and increase their governance risk. Certainly, archiving can reduce the amount of storage an organization must procure and manage."

Robert Clark, SVP, data protection group, Quantum, said: "Drawing from our experience with object storage for big data, we see enormous needs in the traditional data protection space that the combined Lattus-D and Simpana solution clearly addresses. Users now have a new backup and archive architecture that empowers them to retain their valuable archive assets without constantly adding more primary disk, reduce costs with automated, policy-based tiering for active and static data, and improve access to business information for increased productivity."

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