Building Massive Data Stores with Quantum

Emerging HPC, AI, and analytics applications across many disciplines are driving new requirements for easy online accessibility to massive data sets. Join Quantum experts to discuss:
• Challenges and tradeoffs that organizations classically face in building at hyperscale
• How cloud architectures should be influencing your own in-house designs
• New technologies that are enabling a new generation of storage clouds
• Design principles that simultaneously optimize performance, durability, availability, and affordability
• How new advances are blurring the line between active and cold data sets

To date, in-house object storage has been flash and disk-based, limiting the economics of these solutions as requirements soar to multi-petabyte-scale and beyond. With advances in object storage software and integration of tape-based resources, it is now possible for large enterprises and research facilities to build in-house storage clouds at up to 80% lower cost than traditional methods. Join us to discuss:
• What S3 Storage Classes are and how to leverage them
• New architectures, algorithms, and novel erasure coding that make these solutions viable
• How to achieve data durability, performance, and storage efficiency while maintaining low cost

“Tape is dead" is an overplayed mantra that has been heralded by disk and flash vendors for more than a decade. Nothing could be further than the truth. With data growth ever expanding, the role of tape in large enterprise IT environments and hyperscale data centers has never been more secure or significant. In this session, we'll consider the role of tape in hyperscale data centers and why the world's largest IT infrastructures are so reliant on tape to meet their massive data storage requirements. We'll discuss:
• The intriguing attributes and economics of tape-based data
• Key architectural characteristics of large tape-based infrastructures
• How hyperscalers simplify access to tape-based data and reduce management overhead

With digital data sources forever producing more and more data, every IT manager ultimately must resolve what to do with all that data. In this session, we'll discuss strategies and best practices to consider when building an in-house storage archive to enhance overall IT infrastructure efficiency and data storage economics, while maintaining data longevity and accessibility for your line of business constituents.
• Key attributes essential to a good data archive design
• Tools and technologies that you will find most valuable
• Methods of simplifying access and ongoing management