StorNext 6 adds new advanced data management features to the industry-leading streaming performance of the company’s scale-out tiered storage solutions portfolio, which includes flash, disk, tape and public and private cloud storage offerings.
Quantum’s award-winning StorNext has become the platform of choice for storing and managing video, having been developed specifically for intelligence, military reconnaissance, security and surveillance applications. As part of its continued commitment to enabling improved video surveillance through a better storage platform, Quantum will showcase StorNext 6, the major new StorNext release. Launched in April 2017, StorNext 6 adds new advanced data management features to the industry-leading streaming performance of the company’s scale-out tiered storage solutions portfolio, which includes flash, disk, tape and public and private cloud storage offerings. With this unique combination of performance and management, Quantum continues to extend the power of StorNext in highly video-intensive environments such as surveillance and government security.
At the show, Quantum will demonstrate why a robust storage system is essential for anyone in video surveillance who needs to capture, store, share, and retrieve video content with high bit rates and frame sizes. It will also highlight precisely how video surveillance implementations are benefitting from the performance and value that Quantum provides.
“Video surveillance is among the most challenging workloads for any storage environment, so a robust storage system is critical to protect people and property from harm. A scalable and intelligent storage platform such as Quantum’s, which is designed specifically for the demands of video, can also be used to extract business value from video-based data, producing business benefits and financial returns. StorNext 6 offers new features to enable collaboration on a global scale while delivering the performance and management needed for surveillance storage environments as they grow. At IFSEC International we will demonstrate to attendees how these features can drive greater productivity, innovation and insight,” said Wayne Arvidson, VP of Intelligence, Surveillance and Security Solutions at Quantum.
StorNext 6
The new release of the award-winning StorNext storage system addresses the needs of enterprises grappling with using their existing appliance-based solutions to store large, rapidly growing data sets, such as increasingly large video formats captured from ever-expanding video surveillance camera-counts. It also helps them to meet another growing trend within the industry – drive business value from that data. There are a number of important new features within StorNext 6 that are of particular interest to the video surveillance community. It includes new enhancements that are designed to fit within existing ecosystem applications and tools, and are engineered to handle more complex streaming workloads.
- FlexSync Continuous Content Synchronisation can create a replica of a source file system, directory or individual file onto another local or remote file system. It can then create copies of surveillance data to provide an off-site copy of video content for data protection or distribution, and maintains continuous and efficient synchronisation through metadata monitoring.
- FlexSpace Multi-Site Shared Archive enables distributed, collaborative workflows, creating “stubs” to remotely archived files and using S3-based object store repositories.
- Client-based “Quality of Service” (QoS) enables bandwidth throttling, to specify the maximum bandwidth permitted for a client. In addition, bandwidth reservation guarantees throughput for one client while limiting bandwidth for others.
- Online Stripe Group Management provides non-disruptive storage scaling with auto redistribution. As surveillance system requirements evolve, this capability enables a storage infrastructure to change as well - without disrupting ingest and other functions. Additional capacity and bandwidth can be added to an active file system to meet increased retention or performance requirements.
- File System Auditing provides an activity trail of “what, when, and who” made changes to file metadata and the contents of the file itself.
- Additional enhancements such as tier copy management allows administrators to effectively and flexibly manage the storage tier in which data resides much more effectively, and also choose the storage platform – including cloud — from which data will be retrieved.
With these new features, StorNext 6 enables collaboration on a global scale while delivering the performance and management needed for surveillance storage environments as they grow.