ActiveScale Cold Storage
Secure, durable, extremely low-cost storage for cold data.
Now Available as a Fully Managed Service
Bring Your Cold Data to Life
Quantum ActiveScale™ Cold Storage is a new class of object storage that provides secure, highly durable, and extremely low-cost storage for archiving of your 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.
Getting More Value from Your Cold Data
Whether you are developing solutions for life and Earth sciences, media production, government programs, web services, IoT infrastructure, AI/ML, or video surveillance, ActiveScale puts an affordable scalable solution within reach. Now, you can build your own private cloud storage environment, seamlessly grow your data stores from terabytes to exabytes, and reduce the cost of your cold data by up to 80%.
Featured Benefits
Data Sovereignty and Security
Now 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 RAIL architecture that easily scales to accommodate 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.
Extract 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.
ActiveScale Cold Storage Software
With storage growth far outpacing IT budgets, IT leaders are looking for new approaches to resolve this gap. Industry surveys clearly identify that 60% of all data stored is cold inactive data that is infrequently or never accessed again. Yet, organizations are unwilling to delete this data as they recognize its potential value.
Bringing the Cloud Experience Anywhere Your Data Lives
As the Hyperscale Cold Storage industry leader, Quantum has deployed exabytes of storage in support of the world’s largest cloud providers. With years of experience and innovation, we are bringing a new, innovative approach for building cold data storage for your hybrid cloud environment.
A Feature-Rich Software Environment
KEY FEATURES
- Active and Cold Storage Classes
- Optimized Scale-out Hybrid Storage
- Quantum Hyperscale RAIL
- Patent-Pending 2D Erasure Coding
- Outstanding Tape Economics
- S3 Storage Classes and Lifecycle Policies
- Data Staging and Tape Management
- Unmetered Cold Storage Access
With the industry’s only integrated class of storage designed for cold data, ActiveScale reduces your overall cost of storing and protecting massive data sets. Moreover, ActiveScale Cold Storage provides for simple, quick recovery of your cold data sets into your active working group to provide continuing analysis and reuse of valuable data assets.
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.
ActiveScale Cold Storage is based on our innovative RAIL Architecture (Redundant Array of Independent Libraries) that is easily optimized for performance or cost to meet a variety of needs. By providing parallel access to multiple modular tape libraries, RAIL provides unlimited, incremental scalability, linear performance, plus higher availability and serviceability compared to a monolithic library.
ActiveScale is the industry’s most durable cold storage by many orders of magnitude. With up to 19 9’s durability, your data is protected for the long term. Innovative two-dimensional erasure coding distributes object and parity shards both within and across tapes and libraries to maximize recoverability and achieve up to 40% greater efficiency than two-copy solutions.
Tape is undeniably the industry’s lowest cost storage with the longest life span and superior reliability. It is truly green, consuming ultra-low power, significantly reducing carbon emissions. And with a strong capacity roadmap, its cost leadership will increase for the next decade. ActiveScale Cold Storage inherits these benefits, while enabling a seamless environment that dramatically simplifies tape management.
To simply integrate into existing and emerging workflows, ActiveScale Cold Storage supports the S3 Glacier Storage Class as its primary interface. Standard PUT, RESTORE, and GET primitives are supported for simple management of cold data objects. In addition, lifecycle policies provide for automated transitioning of objects from Active Storage to Cold Storage.
As a fully integrated solution, ActiveScale Cold Storage is smarter than other storage alternatives. Objects PUT to Cold Storage are immediately protected and staged in Active Storage free space for instant acknowledgement and consistency. Then, ActiveScale coordinates across all Cold Storage Class PUTs and RESTOREs to optimize tape streaming performance and data layouts for maximum performance and durability.
In contrast to public cloud services, accessing your cold data with Quantum is easy, economical, and enriching. With full control, you choose restore strategies that make sense for your workflows and your timeframes, fully liberated from unpredictable access and storage fees. And objects are generally restored at streaming rates, typically, in minutes.
Key Features
- Active and Cold Storage Classes
- Optimized Scale-out Hybrid Storage
- Quantum Hyperscale RAIL
- Patent-Pending 2D Erasure Coding
- Outstanding Tape Economics
- S3 Storage Classes and Lifecycle Policies
- Smart Data Staging and Tape Management
- Unmetered Cold Storage Access
ActiveScale Cold Storage Resources
Featured
eBook: Strategies for Repatriating Your Essential Data
ActiveScale Cold Storage now sold in pre-configured bundles
ActiveScale Datasheet
ActiveScale Cold Storage Tech Brief
How to Build Your Own S3 Glacier Private Cloud
IDC Info Brief: Why Every Enterprise Needs a Cold Storage Strategy
Horison White Paper: ActiveScale Cold Storage for Enterprise, Webscale and Hyperscale Deep Archives
Quantum Object Storage Services
Bringing Tape Economics to Object Storage: A Comparison of Solution Architectures