Quantum provides an intelligent data platform that helps organizations manage, protect, and preserve unstructured data across its entire lifecycle, from high-performance ingest for AI workloads to long-term archival storage. The platform combines S3-compatible object storage with secure tape storage to automatically tier data based on value, reducing costs while maintaining accessibility for compliance and AI initiatives. Quantum also offers CatDV, a media asset management solution with AI-powered capabilities for automated metadata tagging and workflow orchestration in live sports production.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Organizations face rapidly growing data volumes that are increasingly valuable for AI training, analytics, and compliance, yet traditional storage approaches struggle to balance cost, performance, and long-term retention. Discarding data means losing the fuel for innovation, while keeping everything on expensive high-performance storage becomes prohibitive as data lives longer than ever.
Solution
Quantum delivers an end-to-end intelligent data platform that places the right data in the right place at the right cost across the entire data lifecycle. The platform combines high-performance, S3-compatible ActiveScale object storage with ultra-low-cost, secure Scalar tape storage, enabling automatic tiering that moves data based on business value and access frequency. This hybrid architecture creates durable, scalable "forever archives" that support AI initiatives, compliance requirements, and rapid recovery from cyber threats while minimizing total cost of ownership. Quantum's CatDV media asset management platform extends this foundation to automate workflow orchestration, including AI-powered facial recognition and real-time metadata injection for live sports production.
Target Audience
Primary customers include organizations in life sciences, government, media and entertainment, research, and industrial technology that manage large volumes of unstructured data requiring long-term preservation, AI enablement, and regulatory compliance.
Features
- ActiveScale object storage with erasure-coded architecture for petabyte-to-exabyte scale data preservation
- Scalar tape libraries offering air-gapped, immutable, and encryption-protected archival with 2X density via Scalar i7 RAPTOR
- Automated lifecycle tiering that places active data on high-performance storage and cold data on cost-efficient tape without manual intervention
- CatDV media asset management with Pegasus Worker Clustering for distributed processing and tag-based routing to appropriate hardware resources
- Azure Cloud Support enabling direct ingest from Azure Blob Storage and archive tier selection (hot, cool, or archive) managed within the platform
- Stats Injector integration that automatically applies play-by-play metadata to video clips during ingest from professional league APIs, eliminating manual logging
- AI-powered facial recognition via Amazon Rekognition for user-trainable media asset tagging
- End-to-end data integrity checks, encryption, immutability, and air-gapped protection against cyber threats and bit rot