Quantum will be demonstrating the H4000 Essential at the NAB Show.
Quantum Corporation has announced the release of the H4000 Essential, an all-in-one appliance that integrates Quantum CatDV media asset management and Quantum StorNext 7 shared storage software on the H4000 storage platform.
The H4000 Essential provides shared storage and automatic content indexing, discovery, and workflow collaboration for small creative teams.
Quantum says it does not require specialised IT skills to support, “can be up and running in minutes, and offers unique features that integrate media management and storage so these teams can spend more time creating and less time searching for content.”
The system starts at under $40,000.
Speaking about the launch, Dave Clack, Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Software and Analytics, Quantum, said: “What’s remarkable about the new H4000 Essential is that we’ve brought the most important capabilities of two powerful platforms – CatDV and StorNext – and taken away the complexity and time in configuring and managing them separately and setting up production workflows. The H4000 Essential is the fastest solution to stand up for a new project or a new team – whether working directly on the storage, collaborating remotely from the field, managing multiple projects simultaneously, or all the above. For the first time, these industry-leading technologies are in reach of small creative groups everywhere.”
Darren Temple, CEO and president of Switch, added: “Switch is a fast-moving, agile brand and experience agency for leading content and enterprise brands – our work bridges digital and brand marketing with virtual and hybrid meeting events, tradeshows, and field marketing. We have multiple projects in flight constantly across our team, so it’s important to us to have an all-in-one content management and storage solution like the H4000 Essential for our fast-moving deliverables.”
The H4000 Essential features are purpose-built for the needs of small, independent creative teams.
The feature includes StorNext collaborative shared storage systems of starting at either 48TB or 96TB of raw storage in a compact 2U server, a highly-available dual-controller architecture, an intuitive out of the box user experience designed for creative professionals to get up and running quickly, 25GbE networking connection to customer networks, unified StorNext and CatDV account creation with StorNext-powered SMB storage volume sharing, automatic content ingest, metadata extraction, proxy, thumbnail, and filmstrip creation, and available archiving plugins for Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, or choice of S3-compatible storage, among others.
Nilay Patel, vice president of sales and partnerships at Backblaze, stated: “We love empowering agile, creative teams with cloud storage that delivers ease, flexibility, and immediate availability when they need it. Pairing the H4000 Essential’s impressive feature set with the Backblaze B2 Archive plugin does just that—it lets customers grow and protect archives at any scale while maintaining visibility into all the content they have stored on Backblaze B2 via the powerful visual catalogues the UI provides.”
Nick Smith, Vice President of Technology, Exertis Broadcast, commented: “We’re impressed with how fast it is to get a fully configured and integrated instance of StorNext-powered shared storage and Quantum CatDV up and running. We see H4000 Essential as a powerful way to get world-class tools in the hands of content teams across our nationwide network of value-added resellers.”
The H4000 Essential is available to order immediately from Quantum Value Added Resellers worldwide.
Quantum will be demonstrating the H4000 Essential at the NAB Show.
Stand N4109 and N4106
