Quantum's Mako makes Asia-Pac debut
Quantum's Mako makes Asia-Pac debut
Tape storage system provider Quantum chose the opening day of this year's Storage World conference in Sydney to showcase its new high-end tape library to the Asia-Pacific market.
Dubbed Mako, the new system comes under the umbrella of the company's Performance on Demand (PoD) strategy, in which customers can pay only for the storage they need, allowing them to reduce upfront costs and more accurately determine future storage costs.
Emil Kobylarz, managing director of Quantum's Storage Solutions Group in Asia-Pacific, said that the arrival of Mako is the culmination of a long consultation process on a number of fronts.
"Following Quantum's comprehensive survey of OEMs, resellers and end-users, the Mako has been specifically engineered to address two clear customer requests – a superior system with a smaller footprint and an ability to pay only for the storage they need when they need it." Performance on Demand meets the latter request, and as for the former, Quantum said that a single Mako frame can scale up to 20 DLTtape or LTO drives, taking up around a quarter of the space of a typical system with the same capacity.
Quantum plan to distribute Mako through its network of VARs (value added resellers) form the start of next year.
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