New offerings will allow industry-proven StorNext software to deliver unparalleled data management performance, flexibility and cost-effectiveness
London (IBC Conference), 8 September 2011 – Quantum Corp. (NYSE:QTM), the leading global specialist in backup, recovery and archive, today announced it is adding new products to its StorNext® appliance family. The expanded family will use the power of StorNext and market-leading hardware to offer predictable high-performance file sharing and archiving in purpose-built configurations of metadata controllers, expansion appliances and disk, and archive enabled libraries. The StorNext solutions will be simple to deploy and architected to deliver scalable, industry-leading performance; drive lower operational costs; and provide a flexible, open system for enabling third-party applications. The new products will also work seamlessly with traditional StorNext software and partner hardware offerings to offer additional options for building a shared SAN and scale-out NAS environment. Quantum’s StorNext appliances are intended to serve a wide range of markets where the highest performance and lowest long-term cost for sharing big data files – such as streaming rich media content or large analytical data files  is a critical part of the operational workflow.

Quantum will showcase its StorNext software and appliances in Hall 7, booth G30 at the IBC 2011 Conference held in the Amsterdam RAI on 8-13 September.

High-performance metadata controllers

· The recently announced StorNext M330 is the first in a series of metadata controller appliances from Quantum. The StorNext M330 appliance is ideal for mid-range performance requirements in the most demanding rich media environments. Future releases will address additional performance use cases.
· Metadata controller appliances serve as the foundation for StorNext functionality in a high-performance shared SAN. The appliances deliver the proven speed, scalability, and archive-ready capabilities of StorNext in a simple, flexible and extensible platform.
· By separating metadata from data input/output (I/O) processing, Quantum’s metadata controller appliances enable predictable enterprise scale and performance, which can be increased independently from capacity, while reducing in-house operations cost.

Expansion appliances and disk

· These purpose-built system attachments will be designed to easily add greater performance and allow users to scale their StorNext environments.
· The StorNext G300 Scale-Out Gateway Appliance with unlimited StorNext LAN client licensing will deliver streaming client...