Scalar i6H designed for hyperscale archive environments
Quantum has announced the availability of a new tape storage system designed for hyperscale archive environments. The Scalar i6H is a modular tape storage system that was designed in collaboration with some of the world’s largest hyperscalers and is now being made available to web scale companies and enterprises looking to build private clouds.
The Scalar i6H offers best-in-class storage density and sets a new standard for tape ease-of-use. It can be shipped fully assembled in a rack, everything is customer-serviceable and replaceable, and technicians with no tape expertise can easily manage many systems at large scale. In addition, the Scalar i6H offers unique anti-ransomware features like Scalar Ransom Block for building cyber-resilient private clouds.
“Several years ago, we set out to develop tape solutions that are market leaders both technically and commercially in the hyperscale market,” says Bruno Hald, vice president and general manager, secondary storage for Quantum. “We now have seven hyperscale and web scale accounts globally that have collectively deployed over 35 exabytes of capacity in hundreds of Quantum tape systems around the world, including many Scalar i6H systems that are already deployed in some of the world’s largest data archives. The Scalar i6H is our latest generation tape library platform designed to be deployed in hyperscale archive environments as part of a Quantum Redundant Array of Independent Library, or RAIL, architecture. The combination of this architecture with the density, serviceability, and other unique Scalar i6H features make it the leading choice for exabyte-scale private clouds.”