Quantum appoints Mellanox as Infiband Partner

Quantum has announced its partnership with Mellanox Technologies to leverage the greatly increased data sharing performance, scale and flexibility of Quantum’s recently announced StorNext 5 platform.
 
Having re-architected StorNext 5 from the ground up to address this evolving dataflow, Quantum is collaborating with Mellanox to address the needs of customers in high-intensity environments that can benefit from high-bandwidth, low-latency topologies made possible with InfiniBand.
 
Jeffrey Lowe, Director, Business Development, Quantum, stated, With the pending release of StorNext 5, and given its stunning new performance and scalability, it is more important than ever to be able to harness that potential as customers are planning ever-larger deployments. As the use cases for StorNext 5 grow, we increasingly expect to see the need for more infrastructure options such as the high-speed, low-latency solution that Mellanox and InfiniBand offer.
 
We are excited to work with a respected leader in high-performance storage such as Quantum. As high-speed data sharing meshes with HPC-style computation, the combination of Quantum’s StorNext and Mellanox InfiniBand interconnects will open up tremendous performance potential for end-customers and will enable them with quicker access to data at scale, said John F. Kim, Director, Storage Marketing, Mellanox Technologies.
 
Quantum will highlight StorNext 5, along with its Lattus Object Storage and StorNext AEL6000 Archive, for high-performance computing environments at the SC13 event.