Independently Scale Cluster Capacity

Quantum has announced the 'Xcellis Scale-out NAS', a workflow-sharing NAS storage appliance that enables flexible scalability. The 'Xcellis Scale-out NAS' provides cost-effective scalability to smoothly accommodate continuous data growth while delivering powerful enterprise scale-out NAS functionality and management capabilities.

Additionally, the Xcellis Scale-out NAS delivers three times superior performance compared to competing enterprise NAS products through integrated storage tiering, while its price is approximately 1/10th that of enterprise NAS solutions offering equivalent performance and capacity. Through this, the product can meet the diverse requirements of high-value data environments in organizations where product development and revenue generation are data-centric.

Cost-Effectively Scale Performance and Capacity: Clusters support performance and capacity scaling together or independently, enabling terabytes-per-second class performance and hundreds of petabytes-class capacity. A single client (SMB, NFS, or high-performance client) achieves three times superior performance compared to competitors' scale-out NAS products through multiple clients that expand a single cluster's bandwidth to terabytes-per-second class or higher. Furthermore, the Xcellis end-to-end solution seamlessly manages petabyte-class data through simplified workflows integrating tape or cloud, delivering superior performance compared to leading NAS-dedicated products at 1/10th the price of competitors.

Advanced Capabilities and Flexible Management: Installation and configuration are straightforward, with a modern unified management interface providing rapid scanning and search functionality for large-scale data repositories, in-depth monitoring, alerting, and management capabilities.

Lifecycle, Location, and Cost Management: The 'Xcellis Scale-out NAS' leverages 15 years of data management expertise accumulated through StorNext. Xcellis data management capabilities support automated tiering across SSD, disk, tape, object storage, and public cloud. Additionally, copies can be created for content distribution, collaboration, data protection, and disaster recovery.

The 'Xcellis Scale-out NAS' is the industry's only NAS solution with integrated artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, enabling customers to generate greater value from both existing and new data. By actively exploring data across multiple dimensions to identify events, objects, faces, words, and sentiment, and automatically generating custom metadata, it opens new possibilities and opportunities through stored assets.

Scott Sinclair, Senior Analyst at market research firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), stated: "The explosion of unstructured data across vast industrial sectors brings unlimited opportunities for 'discovery' and 'monetization'. However, existing data management and storage solutions have had limitations in enabling many organizations to fully realize their potential. The 'Xcellis Scale-out NAS' independently and cost-effectively scales performance and capacity, enabling storage to serve as a driver of organizational advancement."

Molly Presley, Vice President of Global Marketing at Quantum, stated: "A gap has existed between NAS systems designed for enterprise data management and HPC solutions designed for data-intensive workloads. The 'Xcellis Scale-out NAS' can bridge this gap with the capabilities enterprises require and the performance that HPC demands in a single solution. Xcellis provides unparalleled capacity through the economic advantages of tape and cloud and integrated AI for intelligent data insights, while seamlessly supporting existing block storage requirements within the same platform."