Quantum's huge surge in autoloader market
Quantum's huge surge in autoloader market
Storage solution provider Quantum has made dramatic strides in the autoloader tape automation market in the last 12 months, emerging as a leading provider of tape automation products for SME's, workgroups and remote offices.
According to Gartner Dataquest's recently published 2002 Tape Automation Market Share report, Quantum improved its autoloader market share from a 9 per cent volume share in 2001, to over 30 per cent in 2002. It was also the only automation vendor to of the top five to grow its automation unit volume year-on-year.
Almost one in every three autoloaders supplied to the worldwide market now comes from Quantum.
Autoloaders are used to automate the backup procedure, and containing a tape drive, tape cartridge slots and a mechanism for moving tapes between the drives. They are normally employed to back up servers overnight without interruption, and can be scaled in capacity from 320GB to 6.4TB depending on the tape drives used.
Emil Kobylarz, managing director APAC of Quantum's storage solutions group, said the ease of use and price point of the technology put it within the grasp of all Australian SME's.
"Quantum’s focused on building its autoloader product family around the strategy of providing value-focused, simple-to-use and administer, and high-performance data protection solutions eminently suitable for small to medium business. The ease of use, easy plug and play with leading software backup packages and fantastic scalability all at a reasonable price makes automated backup now within the reach of all Australian business."
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