Quantum Partners With Mellanox

Quantum has announced a partnership with Mellanox Technologies, a supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions and services for servers and storage.
The two companies will work together to leverage the increased data sharing performance and scale of Quantum’s recently announced StorNext 5 platform.
As high-performance computing and collaborative compute environments converge, the collection of digital data has become easier, with files increasing in size and volume.
Having re-architected StorNext 5 to address this evolving dataflow, Quantum is collaborating with Mellanox to address the needs of high-intensity environments.
Quantum will highlight StorNext 5, along with its Lattus™ Object Storage and StorNext AEL6000 Archive, for high-performance computing environments at SC13 booth #304 taking place this week at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.
The new StorNext 5 platform is designed to facilitate the managing of compute-intensive research data.
It also serves as the engine for automatically moving data from primary to cost-effective storage tiers. It is architected to provide globally distributed teams with greater efficiency for handling large and small unstructured data files over cloud, NAS and/or SAN topologies, including InfiniBand.
John F. Kim, director, Storage Marketing, Mellanox Technologies, said: "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."
Jeffrey Lowe, director, Business Development, Quantum: "With the pending release of StorNext 5, and given its stunning new performance and scalability, it's 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."
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