November 20, 2024
What is Quantum ActiveScale™ object storage?
Quantum ActiveScale object storage is the only object storage solution architected for both active and cold data. It’s a simple, reliable object storage platform built for high-performance access, storage efficiency, and the long-term durability of massive data sets.
It is a multi-class object store that includes cold storage — a new class of object storage that provides secure, highly durable, and extremely low-cost storage for archiving cold data. It enables any organization generating petabytes of data to deploy S3 Glacier-class storage within their own data center, colocation facility, or hosted IT environment.
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ActiveScale is an award-winning enterprise object storage solution uniquely designed for both active and cold data for:
- Unstructured data management
- Data analytics and AI workloads
- Active archiving
- Long-term retention and protection of massive data sets
- Data consolidation across an entire organization
ActiveScale Z200: The latest addition to the ActiveScale product line
The all-flash ActiveScale Z200 delivers up to five times greater throughput (gigabytes per second) and up to nine times more transactions (objects per second) over traditional hard drive object storage solutions. The ActiveScale Z200’s high throughput makes it particularly well suited for ingesting data into these large data stores, and with its unique ability to process and densely store metadata in flash for hundreds of billions of objects in the cold storage tier, the Z200 reduces overall footprint and cost. With fast and easy access through standard S3 Glacier interfaces, objects are easily restored in bulk within minutes for additional analysis, model re-calibration and re-monetization.
Why should you care?
With ActiveScale, your customers can:
- Address massive data growth with the industry's most cost-effective solution
- Reduce data protection and DR costs with a more modern, efficient architecture
- Address requirements for compliance, long-term retention, massive unstructured data management
- Enable your customers to easily access and extract more value from archived content on an ongoing basis
- Reduce storage administrative costs so IT teams can focus on digital transformation
Overall, Quantum ActiveScale object storage allows your customers to:
- Reduce their cloud storage costs up to 60% and get more value from their cold data
- Build their own cloud storage resource to overcome the unpredictable costs and limited access to data resources hosted in public cloud storage
- Retain their data's ownership, security and sovereignty — affordably, with fast, easy access to all their data
How does it work?
The ActiveScale architecture consolidates NVMe, hard drives, and tape resources into a single namespace that scales to billions of objects and exabytes of capacity. The Access Layer stores object metadata for fast queries while the Data Layer provides unlimited, independent scaling of both Active and Cold Storage to meet demands for both immediate access and reduced cost.
The ActiveScale architecture enables both active and cold storage infrastructures to be deployed at a single-site, two-sites using data replication, or three sites using 3GEO Dynamic Data Placement (DDP). Data buckets can also be migrated and replicated between ActiveScale and public cloud environments in support of hybrid cloud deployments.
What makes ActiveScale unique?
- Scalable architecture: Provides unlimited scalability of performance, capacity and object count. Scales from 100s of tbs to exabytes and beyond, and billions of objects with ease.
- Active and cold data support: The industry's only platform architected with both active (NVMe or HDD-based) and cold (tape-based) storage classes for up to 80%.
- Lower cost, no data access fees. Plus, Quantum Object Storage Services provides fully managed, private cloud storage services in your customer's data center, colocation facility, or hosted IT environment.
- Performance and protection: ActiveScale Dynamic Data Placement (DDP) delivers better system availability, higher performance and less management headaches — at any scale. Dynamic Data Repair (DDR) constantly repairs data in the background for an "always on" experience. 3GEO erasure coding provides synchronous access to all content and disaster recovery protection.
How does ActiveScale compare to the competition?
Compared to public cloud services
- Significantly lower TCO and predictable OPEX without high monthly fees for storage, APIs and egress
- Provides predictable high performance and lower latency compared to public cloud experience
Compared to competitive object store systems
- Active and cold storage classes reduce storage costs by up to 80%
- Competing RING architectures break down at scale; causing lengthy system rebalances, negatively affecting system performance, making competing systems unavailable
- No requirements to rebalance as you scale
- Sustain high performance even as you scale
- ActiveScale meets strong consistency requirements for Amazon S3 compatibility
Compared to traditional scale-out NAS
- ActiveScale is easier to manage and scale compared to traditional NAS systems
- Lower operational cost — manage 100s of petabytes with a single administrator
How do you position and sell Quantum ActiveScale?
ActiveScale with Cold Storage is available as an appliance or as a fully managed as-a-Service solution. It comes complete with all the components needed to purchase and deploy.
Key features to highlight:
- Data sovereignty and security — Achieve cloud storage economics in your own data center deploying the same architecture as cloud hyperscalers without exposing your data to unnecessary risks and cyber threats.
- Durability for years and decades — Up to 19 9's data durability with new 2D erasure coding and a rock-solid, redundant, geo-spread RAIL architecture that easily scales to billions of objects, exabytes of data and new generations of technology.
- Easy access, lowest TCO — Based on S3 APIs, storage classes and lifecycle policies, simply support new and emerging applications and workflows in your own data centers, colocation facilities and hybrid multi-clouds with the industry's lowest TCO solution.
- Data value without unpredictable fees — High performance, highly available, no-fee access is based on our single namespace, hybrid architecture. NVMe-based object metadata enable super-fast queries and easy enrichment across both active and cold data.
- Easy as-a-Service delivery — Deploy as a Quantum Object Storage Service in your data center, colocation facilities, or Quantum-hosted cloud with flexible pay-as-you-grow pricing, 7x24 support and proactive monitoring and management.
How does Arrow help?
Arrow’s Quantum team provides our partners with configuration and quoting assistance, as well as the information needed to help you differentiate Quantum from the competition.
In addition, Arrow Capital Solutions can assist with any financing needed to help you make these solutions affordable and cost-effective for your customers.
For more information
Contact Arrow at Quantum.ECS.NA@arrow.com for assistance with any questions related to Quantum and its products and services.