Quantum Corporation announced that Amidata, a leading managed services provider, has implemented Quantum ActiveScale? object storage as the foundation for their new Amidata Secure Cloud Storage Service. After building successful Backup-as-a-Service and File Sharing Service offerings on Quantum DXi?

backup appliances and Quantum StorNext® file systems, Amidata has now deployed ActiveScale object storage to build a secure, resilient set of cloud storage services accessible from across all of Australia, where the company is based. By deploying ActiveScale, Amidata achieves simple operational efficiency, seamless scalability, and the ability to address customer needs across a wide range of use cases, workflows, and price points. Amidata's adoption of object storage also aligns with current IT trends.

As the industry's only object storage platform architected for both active and cold data, ActiveScale supports multiple S3-compatible storage classes using flash, disk, and tape medias, providing a seamless environment that can flexibly grow capacity and performance to any scale. Cold Storage, a key ActiveScale feature, integrates Quantum Scalar tape libraries as a lower cost storage class to efficiently store cold and archived data sets. Quantum's tape libraries are nearline storage, where customers can easily access and retrieve cold or less used data with slightly longer latency?minutes instead of seconds?but at a low cost, leveraging the same infrastructure used by the major hyperscalers.  ActiveScale Cold Storage intelligently stores and protects data across all storage resources using Quantum's patented two-dimensional erasure coding to achieve extreme data durability, performance, availability, and storage efficiency.

In addition to the Quantum solutions they already offer, Amidata is evaluating other Quantum solutions to deliver complete end-to-end offerings for data across the lifecycle, like the new Quantum DXi Cloud Share which enables archiving of backup data sets from across core, cloud, and edge environments directly to Amidata's Secure Cloud Storage Service.