Name: Quantum StorNext
Rating: 9 (1 reviews)
Author: Quantum

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Chatbot

Flowchart

Innovation Management

Development

Attendance Tracking

Education

Barcode

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Corporate Performance Management (CPM)

Digital Rights Management (DRM)

Streaming Analytics

Enterprise

Accounting

Crypto Accounting

FinTech

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

HR Management

Payroll

Recruitment Marketing

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Video Interview

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

Archiving

Cloud Storage

Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)

Disk Cloning

Fraud Detection

Identity Verification

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Network Performance Monitoring

Office Migration and Repair

SIP Trunking

Virtual Data Room

Web Scraping

Zero Trust Security Solutions

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Blogging

Contact Center

Content Management

Email Marketing

Enterprise Marketing Management

Event Management

Identity Resolution

Marketing Automation

Personalization Engines

Sales and Marketing Automation

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Video Editing

Web Analytics

Wholesale Marketplace

Marketing

Job Site Management

Project Management

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Revenue Operations

Sales

API Security

Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms

File Integrity Monitoring

Security

Automotive

Catering

Construction Takeoff and Estimating

Interior Design

Law Practice Management

Moving Software

Nonprofit CRM

Real Estate Property Management

Retail Analytics

Retail Management

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Data Center Backup

Universal recovery

Instant recovery

Recovery verification

Business application protection

Multiple backup destinations

Incremental backup identification

Backup to the cloud

Deduplication and file compression

Snapshots

Flexible deployment

Management dashboard

Platform support

Retention options

Encryption

Commvault

Windows Server

Operating Systems

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Quantum offers the ActiveScale cloud object storage system, acquired from Western Digital February 2020, designed to provide a highly durable, scale-out economic storage system. ActiveScale is a more recent model replacing the former Amplidata Object Storage product line that was acquired by Western Digital from HGST in 2015.

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StorNext, from Quantum, is file system software.

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Scale-out storage is expandable network-attached storage (NAS) architecture not confined to a single form factor, but extensible and configurable as needed, intended to scale with business storage and performance needs.

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Symform started when two senior Microsoft engineers wondered: why is local storage so cheap but cloud storage so expensive? Why does it cost thousands per year to store two terabytes of data in the cloud, while a two-terabyte drive costs only $100? 

The answer lay in the foundation for every cloud solution: the datacenter. Building datacenters—even the most efficient datacenters—is expensive and burdensome, especially because new datacenters have to be built to keep up with data growth, which isn’t going to slow down any time soon. So Symform’s founders set out to design a cloud solution that bypassed the datacenter problem. They ended up with the world’s first distributed cloud storage network. 

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Software and hardware

Customer support

Response times

Works flawlessly

Local support

Technical issues

Fast to respond

Lot of flexibility

Options available

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Scale-Out Storage Solutions

Connected Data

Connected Business

We use Quantum StorNext across our whole organization. We are a post-production editorial and finishing company, mainly commercials for on-air or online ads. With the volume of work and the number of clients, StorNext was really one of the only high performing systems we looked to for our infrastructure. By no means is it on the cheap side, but you get what you pay for, when you are at the level we are at and need that performance and reliability for your clients.

Product Usage

Pros and Cons

Quantum StorNext just works and by that, I mean it just works flawlessly in the background, while your artists are doing their creative work on jobs with clients. Technical issues and hold-ups should never get in the way of the creative process.
There is a lot of flexibility with StorNext and options available in software and hardware, to customize the best solution for your workflow.
Great customer support and response times when things do need supporting, whether there is an issue with a piece of hardware (i.e. battery backup to a controller unit that needs replacing). Quantum along with our local support vendor are fast to respond.

Things done well

Price. Obviously, when you are at the level of performance that is needed for our work, Quantum can only go so low as a company on cost, to give their customers a blockbuster deal. But any possible discount here and there helps, and Quantum does their best to lower it as low as possible with bundles and pricing deals. By no means is price a deterring factor, for if you are playing at this level (Ferrari vs Camaro), you know it's going to expensive, but it's a solid investment if you want the reliability and performance. And it's actually cheaper when you compare it to other competitors, along with upgrade paths down the road that will cost you less.

Things done poorly

Quantum StorNext is well suited in environments with a high, fast paced workflow, with lots and lots of client systems connected, all needing to share the same assets, where you cannot have one moment of downtime. With the pace nowadays that clients expect work to get done, as opposed to 10 years or so ago (pre-iPhone social media instant instant gotta have it right away days), even downtime of 30 minutes can back up your whole workflow. As they say, time is money and Quantum StorNext almost certainly guarantees you have little to no downtime at all. It just works, silently, quietly in the background, making sure everyone is performing at 100% of their potential or more.

Quantum StorNext has allowed us to not only perform at a higher level, but greatly expand how many client systems are connected to the SAN. Prior to Quantum, our old SAN could barely handle the workload of half the client systems we have now. So for ROI, I'm not involved with the actual numbers, but I know our work with clients has expanded ten fold and there is no sign of it slowing down.
Confidence and my time not wasted, working with the support vendors to solve a problem. My time is then spent on other areas and projects in the company, not on phone calls and emails.

Return on Investment

Our first shared storage was from Facilis. This is a great company, with great hardware and software, of which we use in our NYC office. At the time, it did what we needed it to do and performed smoothly. But then our workflow expanded dramatically and needed to look for the level of SANs in the Quantum range. We passed our Facilis along to the NYC office and ended up getting an Active Storage SAN, which ran on StorNext. That company unfortunately went out of business a few years back (they are back in business within the last year, but I think Chinese owned), so we looked into getting a fully integrated all-in-one Quantum system that included its branded storage and MDCs to work with StorNext.

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What is Quantum StorNext?

Quantum StorNext - rock solid, reliable, high-performing product that will never let you down!!

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Windows Server

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