From DNA sequencing to hi-definition video surveillance and seismic exploration companies across every industry are experiencing tremendous growth in unstructured Big Data. This digital content including video audio and images is very high in volume growing at exponential rates and has great value to the business or institution. Proven in world's most data intensive industries Quantum StorNext® scale-out storage virtualization software offers you high-performance file sharing enterprise data management protection and archiving for Big Data environments. Comprised of two core software components StorNext File System and Storage Manager StorNext enables you to share manage and archive your business critical information within a high-performance and scalable tiered storage infrastructure.

The StorNext shared SAN File System accelerates business operations by storing information rapidly then sharing it simultaneously across heterogeneous operating systems and server hardware platforms allowing you to process and distribute content efficiently archive it for future reuse. Supporting heterogeneous environments across Linux Mac Unix and Windows operating systems all files are easily accessible to all hosts whether on the SAN or LAN.

Over time cost and performance characteristics of data will change. StorNext Storage Manager enables cost savings and management simplicity with its policy-based tiered storage and archiving capabilities. Storage tiering automatically migrates data based on user access ensuring that the most frequently accessed data resides on disk and less frequently accessed data resides on less expensive tape media.