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 data from infrequently accessed “cold” files.
Fully POSIX compliant and positioned as an on-premises alternative to tape storage, ANQ Cold can be used as a standalone file service, a backup destination for any file store, including on-premises legacy scalable NAS, and can be integrated. in a hybrid storage infrastructure, allowing access to remote data as if it were local. You can also scale to an exabyte-level file system in a single namespace.
“ANQ Cold is an industry game-changer for cost-effectively storing and retrieving cold file data,” said Ryan Farris, Vice President of Product at Qumulo. “To put this into perspective with a common use case, hospital IT administrators in charge of PACS archival data can use ANQ Cold for long-term retention of DICOM images at a fraction of their current legacy NAS costs.” while still being able to instantly recover over 200,000 DICOM images per month without additional data recovery charges common to cloud-native services.”
Ransomware insurance
ANQ Cold also provides a solid and secure copy of critical data as insurance against ransomware attacks. said Kiran Bhageshpur, CTO of Qumulo. “Combined with our cryptographically signed snapshots, customers can create an instantly accessible “daily golden” copy of their on-premises NAS data, Qumulo, or legacy scalable NAS storage. “There is simply no other solution that is as affordable on an ongoing basis while allowing customers to recover to a known good state and resume operations as quickly as with ANQ Cold.”
The price of the service is $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 250TB per month, with a minimum billable amount of $2,487.50 per month. There is also a minimum retention period of 120 days.
You can start a free trial today.
