Do you want to store 1 PB of data in the cloud? This startup can do it for you for just $10,000 a month. Qumulo says it can scale externally to Exabytes and wants to eradicate tapes once and for all
Qumulo has launched Azure Native Qumulo Cold (ANQ Cold), which it claims is the first truly cloud-native, fully managed SaaS solution for storing and retrieving rarely used ‘cold’ file data.
Fully POSIX compliant and positioned as an on-premise alternative to tape storage, ANQ Cold can be used as a standalone file service, a backup destination for any file storage, including on-premise legacy scale-out NAS, and can be integrated into a hybrid storage infrastructure, which allows access to remote data as if it were local. It can also scale to an exabyte-level file system in a single namespace.
“ANQ Cold is an industry game changer for economical cold file data storage and retrieval,” said Ryan Farris, VP Product at Qumulo. “To put this into perspective with a common use case, hospital IT administrators responsible for PACS archive data can use ANQ Cold for long-term retention of DICOM images at a fraction of their current on-premise NAS costs, while still always able to instantly retrieve more than 200,000 DICOM images per month without the additional data retrieval costs common to native cloud services.”
Ransomware insurance
ANQ Cold also provides a robust, secure copy of critical data as insurance against ransomware attacks. says Kiran Bhageshpur, CTO at Qumulo. “Combined with our cryptographically signed snapshots, customers can create an instantly accessible ‘everyday gold’ copy of their local NAS data, Qumulo or legacy, scalable NAS storage. There is simply no other solution that is as affordable on a permanent basis while allowing customers to recover to a known good condition and resume operations as quickly as with ANQ Cold.”
The service costs from $9.95 per TB per month (depending on where you are in the world). Customers receive 5TB of data recovery each month, with additional recovery charged at $0.03/GB. However, the minimum data limit is 250 TB per month, with a minimum billable amount of $2487.50 per month. There is also a retention period of at least 120 days.
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