Quantum to deliver flexible scale-out storage with StorNext 5

According to an announcement, Quantum has introduced its StorNext 5 appliances which will take management of unstructured data to a new level. The new StorNext 5 appliances deliver up to 10 times greater performance and five times the scalability of previous StorNext versions and are optimized for evolving end-to-end content and data workflows where distributed teams need greater efficiency for handling large and small unstructured data files.

Additionally, StorNext 5 provides an intelligent framework for unified management of flash, disk, tape and object storage technologies from a single interface.

Janae Stow Lee, Sr. Vice-President, Filesystem and Archive, Quantum, said, Our close collaboration with customers in the most demanding content and data-intensive industries in the world made it clear that file storage technologies industry-wide required a significant overhaul to effectively address the dramatic expansion of file sizes and volumes and need for faster data access. Some vendors have taken the easy approach with ‘band-aid’ solutions, but this doesn’t fix the problem in the long term. Flexible scale-out storage without compromise is what StorNext 5 delivers.

StorNext 5 appliances will be available in December 2013. StorNext 5 software-only solutions will be available during the first half of 2014.