Quantum releases Lattus

Quantum has unveiled a new family of wide area storage solutions, Lattus, which provides globally distributed disk-based archives that are extremely scalable and cost-effective and allows storage of data forever on disk without interruption or migration. 

Integrating dispersed object storage and Quantum file system technologies, these solutions offer a new approach to archiving that overcomes the limitations and inefficiencies posed by traditional disk architectures in multi-petabyte storage environments. 

Lattus-X, the first product in the Lattus family, is a wide area storage solution with NAS access that will be generally available next month. In addition, Quantum plans to introduce two other Lattus solutions in 2013, a policy-tiered disk archive storage system leveraging the company’s StorNext Storage Manager software and a cloud-based disk archive offering.

Quantum’s second Lattus product - Lattus-M - will leverage the robust policy-based benefits of StorNext Storage Manager. Available in the first half of 2013, Lattus-M will enable customers to have a new secondary storage tier option that offers lower latency and more predictable restore times than tape at a price appropriate for long-term storage. In addition to providing policy-based tiering to traditional disk and tape, StorNext® will be able to migrate data automatically to a Lattus-based disk archive. 

Later in 2013, in conjunction with partners, Quantum plans to introduce a set of Lattus-based services that will enable shared multi-tenant, encrypted storage - with a combination of NAS, StorNext and native cloud interfaces - as a second or third tier in the cloud.

Lattus-X will be available in December from Quantum and its qualified resellers and partners. List price for the Lattus-X base system, which stores 500TB of big data, is expected to begin at $675,000.

“With our Lattus family, we are now able to provide global disk archives for data that must live forever, be cost-effectively accessible, and stored once on a system with no need for future migrations,” said Janae Stow Lee, Senior Vice-President, Filesystem and Archive, Quantum