Quantum's Lattus provides a new approach to archiving

Quantum Corp, a global firm providing data protection and big data management, has unveiled a new family of wide area storage solutions, Lattus^TM. This provides globally distributed disk based archives that are extremely scalable and cost-effective and allows storage of data forever on disk without interruption or migration.

Integrating dispersed object storage and Quantum file system technologies, these solutions offer a new approach to archiving that overcomes the limitations and inefficiencies posed by traditional disk architectures in multi-petabyte storage environments.

Lattus-X, the first product in the Lattus family, is a wide area storage solution with NAS access that will be generally available next month. In addition, Quantum plans to introduce two other Lattus solutions in 2013, a policy-tiered disk archive storage system leveraging the company's StorNext Storage Manager^TMsoftware and a cloud-based disk archive offering.

Benefits of Wide Area Storage Solutions

Lattus is built to address the challenges inherent in current solutions based on RAID architectures that grow to the petabyte level and beyond in industries such as digital media, science research, surveillance and energy exploration.

Incorporating next-generation object storage technology, Lattus products are optimized for managing large and growing repositories of big data indefinitely, thereby enabling customers to extract the data's maximum value over its entire life. Other benefits include:

· Unparalleled scalability to support flexible big data growth;

· Self-healing, with up to fifteen 9's of durability to ensure data is never lost;

 

· Self-migration for seamless upgrades to new storage technologies;

· Native HTTP REST support for web and cloud-based access; and

· Cost-effective enterprise archive capability across global locations.

In addition to providing policy-based tiering to traditional disk and tape, StorNext® will be able to migrate data automatically to a Lattus-based disk archive.

Later in 2013, in conjunction with partners, Quantum plans to introduce a set of Lattus-based services that will enable shared multi-tenant, encrypted storage - with a combination of NAS, StorNext and native cloud interfaces - as a 2nd or 3rd tier in the cloud.