White Papers
As part of our ongoing commitment to inform, educate and enlighten our current and prospective customers, Quantum regularly covers the topics that are most relevant to the industries we serve. Browse our library of published white papers and check often for the latest updates.
Industry
Category
Re-invent Your Storage Workflows With the Power of NVMe
Media and Entertainment
Flash-based storage can deliver significant performance improvements compared with traditional hard disk drives (HDDs), but until recently, many flash storage systems failed to deliver on their full potential.
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Unified Surveillance Platform
Surveillance & Security
A unified server, storage, and networking platform optimized for video surveillance and physical security workloads.
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The "Forever” Content Archive
Media & Entertainment
Best Practices and Considerations
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The Secret Life of Pets, Minions, and Animation IT
Media & Entertainment
An Avere FXT Edge filer cluster with ActiveScale™ object storage system offers a cost-effective archive solution for seamless access to petabytes of data.
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StorNext Scale-out File Storage Reference Architecture
Media & Entertainment
This white paper is super comprehensive and will explain the architecture of StorNext Scale-out File Storage, describe many of its features and capabilities, and highlight details and patented technology that make it unique!
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StorNext Scale-out File Storage Reference Architecture
Enterprise Backup & Archive
This white paper is super comprehensive and will explain the architecture of StorNext Scale-out File Storage, describe many of its features and capabilities, and highlight details and patented technology that make it unique!
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A Leading Investment Fund Extends Its Competitive Edge by Deploying ActiveScale™ Cloud
Enterprise Backup & Archive
For cutting-edge investment funds, success increasingly depends on data science. The winners in this space have better talent and deeper insights than competitors—and massive amounts of historical and real-time data to fuel their trading models.
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LTO: The New “Enterprise Tape Drive”
Enterprise Backup & Archive
Over the past 30 years, there have been numerous magnetic tape formats . Nearly all have been retired, leaving three formats: Linear Tape Open (LTO), which is an open standard; and IBM 3592/TS11xx and Oracle 9840, 9940, and T10000 proprietary formats, which are also marketed as “enterprise tape drives.”
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EPFL Selects ActiveScale to Preserve 50 Years of Jazz Music
Enterprise Backup & Archive
At EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), the Metamedia Center is dedicated to facilitating technology transfer from research to industry in the areas of multimedia, augmented reality, acoustics, signal processing and others.
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Video Surveillance Shared Storage Reference Architecture
Surveillance & Security
Data created by video surveillance (VS) is exploding. More data is created by video surveillance cameras than any other application or industry, worldwide. 1080P full-HD cameras have become the baseline, and 4K cameras are increasingly popular.
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3 Steps to Creating a Proactive Strategy Against Ransomware
Enterprise Backup & Archive
Attackers are now focused on your backup infrastructure. As backup is fast becoming the primary target, establishing security measures that protect your backup infrastructure becomes a critical component to address.
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Defending Data Against Ransomware
Enterprise Backup & Archive
Best Practices for the Worst-Case Scenario.
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Ransomware Expert Guide
Enterprise Backup & Archive
Ending the vicious ransomware cycle requires a change in behavior.
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Ingesting, Protecting, and Preserving Data
Media and Entertainment
StorNext File System delivers end-to-end lifecycle management for unstructured data.
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Ransomware Brief
Enterprise Backup & Archive
The best Ransomware protection comes with a physical barrier.
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Accessing StorNext Self-Describing Objects
Enterprise Backup & Archive
Want to run a cloud-based application against data that the StorNext® File System has stored in the cloud? Now you can. Need access to that data from other sites or looking to share files with business partners via the cloud? Now it’s possible. Even if you just want insurance that you can always get your data back from the cloud, through disaster or technology. obsolescence, it’s here.
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Canal Extremadura Case Study
Media & Entertainment
Canal Extremadura supports a large-scale multimedia transformation with a scalable Quantum StorNext archive solution.
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British Antarctic Survey Case Study
Enterprise Backup & Archive
Safeguarding research at sea: British Antarctic Survey backs up scientific data with Quantum Scalar Tape Systems.
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ViON Case Study
Enterprise Backup & Archive
ViON chooses Quantum StorNext File System and Tape Storage for Archive Service.
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Scale-out NAS Data Protection
Enterprise Backup & Archive
Bring efficiency to Scale-out NAS backup and restore, reduce costs by over 50%.
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The Anatomy of the 100-Year Archive
Enterprise Backup & Archive
Preparing for infinite data retention.
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The IT Manager’s Guidebook
Enterprise Backup & Archive
Essential strategies for data protection and business continuity in times of crisis.
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Evaluating Adobe Productions Using a StorNext Shared Storage Environment
Media and Entertainment
The concept of shared storage has been around for years. During the evolution of shared storage concepts, Quantum has been a pivotal key player in the transformation, from dedicated storage. to shared architecture.
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Quantum StorNext Scale-out File System - Architecture, Features, and Differentiators
Enterprise Backup & Archive
Storing larger and larger files, capturing and serving them faster and faster, has always been a challenge for data storage systems. StorNext® was created over 20 years ago in response to this challenge—specifically capturing, managing and sharing high-resolution digital video and other performance and latency-sensitive data.
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IDC InfoBrief
Enterprise Backup & Archive
Storage System Considerations in the Digital Era.
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IDC Vendor Spotlight
Enterprise Backup & Archive
Managing Unstructured Data Growth Requires a Fresh Approach.
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StorNext®: The Modern File System that Can Supercharge Your Media Workflows
Media and Entertainment
As files sizes, bottlenecks, and pipelines increase, it’s important to identify potential new requirements for storing your media content. In order to allow team members to execute to the maximum potential, workflows must be optimized for flexibility, balance, scale, cost and performance.
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Defining Storage Requirements for Color Correction
Media and Entertainment
Whether your post-production studio is helping to create feature-length films or 30-second commercials, color correction is a vital part of your workflow. We understand the demands to deliver amazing content under tight deadlines.
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Five Best Practices for Preparing In-House IT for Corporate Video Workflows
Media and Entertainment
Corporate video use case that provides the 5 best practices for preparing in-house IT for corporate video workflows.
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Why Invest In LTO?
Enterprise Backup & Archive
Technical details of LTO tape drives, design, performance metrics and reliability statistics.
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Your Backups Won’t Be Affected by Ransomware with This Last Line of Defense
Enterprise Backup & Archive
Ransomware is just one of many threats that can impact your business data. With a 5X increase in attacks and 6X in new variants, prepare yourself with a solid backup strategy to protect your environment to limit any incident or vulnerabilities.
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