Today, Quantum announced that it would soon be releasing StorNext 7. The company also announced plans to introduce Quantum ATFS and expand their ActiveScale line before the end of the month. Quantum got its start in 1980 as a disk drive manufacturer. In 2001, they sold their manufacturing division to Maxtor (which was later bought by Seagate), so they could focus on their integrated storage system business. StorNext, a software-defined file system, is their core product, but they also offer surveillance and shared storage appliances.
Today, Quantum announced that it would soon be releasing StorNext 7. The company also announced plans to introduce Quantum ATFS and expand their ActiveScale line before the end of the month. Quantum got its start in 1980 as a disk drive manufacturer. In 2001, they sold their manufacturing division to Maxtor (which was later bought by Seagate), so they could focus on their integrated storage system business. StorNext, a software-defined file system, is their core product, but they also offer surveillance and shared storage appliances.
According to the company, Quantum StorNext 7 will be available through their subscription service before November 17th. We’ve previously covered StorNext, but it’s been a few months, so I’ll briefly remind everyone that StorNext’s primary feature is that it abstracts the physical medium data is stored on to allow customers to scale their infrastructure as needed without impacting their existing applications. The company has been unusually light on details about improvements in the next release. The lack of information is especially concerning now that we’re at most seven days away from when they say they plan to make it available. Almost the only thing the company was willing to tell us was that they have been working on new ways to automate data placement on NVMe for high-throughput, low latency workloads. Fortunately, that’s not the only thing we’ve heard from them. The company also says they are planning to introduce an object lock feature to help combat ransomware and meet retention requirements.
Quantum has been playing their cards equally close to their chest with their other announcements. The company says they are planning to expand their ActiveScale line with a new storage system. The new system will be a three-node object storage system, possibly with a smaller capacity than their existing ActiveScale P100 system. In the same time frame, Quantum is also planning to release a new software platform they are currently calling Quantum ATFS. ATFS is expected to integrate data classification with Quantum’s storage services. As part of this service, Quantum intends to enable new ways to visualize, automate, and purposefully place data in the right place. The company’s word choice of “enable” is a bit worrying; hopefully, they intend to provide tools to accomplish the goals they list and not just leave it up to their customers to find ways to use the new service.
Availability
Soon
Engage with StorageReview
Newsletter | YouTube | Podcast iTunes/Spotify | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | RSS Feed
