Archives & Data Lakes
Save every bit of data to fuel AI, insights, and innovation.
Preserve What Matters—Your Data
Data has never been more valuable. In today’s AI-driven world, organizations must retain every bit of data, not just for compliance, but to train AI models, uncover insights, and stay competitive. Discarding data means losing the very fuel that drives innovation.
Quantum turns long-term data retention into your strategic advantage. Our solutions cost-effectively preserve all your data for decades, and even forever, while keeping it secure and accessible. Whether you’re building a data lake, supporting AI initiatives, or meeting compliance demands, we help you save every bit of data in a way that protects and prepares it for future use.
By combining high-performance, S3-compatible object storage with ultra-low-cost, secure tape, our solutions intelligently manage data across multiple tiers, placing both active and cold data in the right place, at the right cost. Our integrated approach creates a durable, scalable, and resilient “forever archive” that grows with your needs, ensuring every bit of your data is always available and ready to be leveraged again.
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Save Every Bit, Minimize TCO
Preserve petabytes to exabytes of cold data for decades with unmatched efficiency. Our erasure-coded architecture and tape tier dramatically reduce media needs, delivering the lowest total cost of ownership for long-term data retention.
Protect Data with Confidence
Ensure your archives remain secure and intact. End-to-end data integrity checks, encryption, immutability, and air-gapped protection guard against cyber threats, bit rot, and silent corruption.
Scales with Your Data, Grows with Your Needs
Built to handle petabytes today and exabytes tomorrow. Our forever archive solutions expand seamlessly as data volumes grow, while maintaining performance, efficiency, and long-term accessibility.
Archiving Critical Research Data at The University of Texas at Austin
“With Quantum, I don’t have to try to make things work. Instead I can focus on ways to better support cutting-edge research.”
Frank Douma, Senior Systems Administrator, Large-Scale Systems, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)
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Storing, Protecting, and Providing Access to Petabytes of Genomic Data
“We love the simplicity, ease of use, and architecture of the ActiveScale systems. These systems are truly designed to scale seamlessly to exabyte-scale deployments of on-premises and hybrid data storage solutions.”
David Ardley Head of Technical Delivery, Genomics England
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Scaling Up an Archive for Multimedia Transformation
“In the past, users knew they had to wait for content to be retrieved from the archive. Now it’s much faster than before. We have more drives and faster drives with the Quantum archive.”
Francisco Reyes Technical Chief, Canal Extremadura
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Amidata Launches New Cloud-Based Storage Service with Quantum ActiveScale
"We needed a simple, scalable storage infrastructure that could last well into the future. The Quantum team showed us the ActiveScale Object Storage solution, and it ticked all the boxes."
Michael Whelan, Managing Director, Amidata
View Full Customer StoryPurpose-Built Solutions to Archive Every Bit of Your Data, Forever
ActiveScale® Object Storage
Scalable, durable object storage that combines with tape in a low-cost, hybrid architecture for active and cold data. Ideal for long-term preservation and petabyte-scale growth.
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Scalar® Tape Drives and Libraries
Low-cost, cyber-resilient, air-gapped storage with decades-long durability—now with Scalar i7 RAPTOR for 2X density, cutting space, power, and cooling needs.
Explore ProductSimply Manage Your Data’s Lifecycle
Quantum supports a rich ecosystem of archiving software solutions that span global file systems, media asset managers, and data protection, management, and migration applications. Advanced solutions include unstructured and enterprise data enrichment, classification, indexing, search, and analytics.
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Data Management Survey: Infrastructure Trends, Challenges, and Needs
The Forever Archive: Sustainable Long-Term Data Protection and Storage
Creating and Managing Massive - and Sustainable - Data Lakes for Data-Intensive Workloads and AI
How to Simply Build a Low-Cost Storage Archive
How to Build Your Own S3 Glacier Private Cloud