Qumulo has launched Azure Native Qumulo Cold (ANQ Cold). The company claims it is the first truly cloud-native, fully managed SaaS solution for storing and retrieving infrequently accessed “cold” file data.
Fully POSIX compliant and positioned as an on-premises replacement for tape storage, ANQ Cold can be used as a standalone file service, as a backup target for any file store, including on-premises legacy scale-out NAS, and can also be integrated. can. Integrate into a hybrid storage infrastructure and access remote data as if it were local. You can also scale to exabyte-level file systems in a single namespace.
“ANQ Cold is an industry changer for economically storing and retrieving cold file data,” said Ryan Farris, vice president of products at Qumulo. “Considering this as a common use case, hospital IT administrators responsible for PACS archive data can use ANQ Cold to achieve long-term storage of DICOM images at a fraction of the cost of their current on-premises legacy NAS. Yes, you can instantly acquire over 200,000 DICOM images per month without the additional data acquisition fees typical of native cloud services.”
Insurance against ransomware
ANQ Cold also provides a robust, secure copy of your critical data as insurance against ransomware attacks. Kiran Bageshpur, CTO of Qumulo, said: “Combined with our cryptographically signed snapshots, a customer can create an instantly accessible 'golden daily' copy of his NAS data on-premises, Qumulo, or traditional scale-out NAS storage.” There is no other solution that helps customers get back to a known state of good health and back to business quickly, while remaining as affordable as ANQ Cold. ”
Pricing for this service starts at $9.95 per TB per month (depending on where you are in the world). The customer receives 5 TB of data acquisition per month, and additional acquisition costs him $0.03/GB. However, the minimum data limit is 250 TB per month and the minimum bill is $2487.50 per month. There is also a minimum retention period of 120 days.
You can start your free trial now.