CENTENNIAL, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Quantum Corporation (Nasdaq: QMCO) today
announced that Pink Elephant, a prominent Netherlands-based IT services provider, has
successfully deployed a new archive service, DMaaS Clouddrive Cold. The new service is
based on Quantum’s ActiveScale® Cold Storage, a highly scalable object storage system
with integrated tape cold tier, and powers a new class of sovereign, cost-efficient cloud
storage services.
As organizations across Europe grapple with ever-increasing data volumes and stringent
regulatory retention requirements, Pink Elephant sought a scalable, resilient foundation for
its Data Management as a Service (DMaaS) portfolio, which includes Backup as a Service
(BaaS) and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS).
The company desired a platform that
could store multi-petabyte datasets with strong availability and durability while mitigating
operating costs, energy consumption, and complexity. After evaluating alternatives, Pink
Elephant selected Quantum ActiveScale Cold Storage for its unique combination of scalable
S3-compatible access, integrated tape tier, and multi-site data distribution, all managed
within a single namespace.
“Customers asked us for cheap and resilient storage for long-term data. It had to be highly
available, spread across multiple data centers. That’s why we chose Quantum,”
said Rene
Sesink, Product Manager at Pink Elephant.
The deployment spans three data centers in the Netherlands, providing sovereign storage
designed to meet regulatory compliance and customer expectations for durability and
access. With data written across multiple locations and architected to protect against
disruptive events, Pink Elephant can deliver a service with 15 nines of durability and
continuous availability.
At the same time, the built-in tape-based cold tier significantly
reduces total cost of ownership by lowering power, footprint, and operational expenses
compared with disk-only alternatives.
“The beauty of ActiveScale Cold Storage is that you simply store the data, and it’s written
across multiple locations automatically. You can read it from any of them. That’s exactly what
we needed,”
said Jeroen Boekkamp, Technology Lead, Datacenter Cloud Services at Pink
Elephant.
The flexible, policy-driven architecture allows Pink Elephant to offer multi-year retention with
predictable costs, making it a compelling choice for customers in healthcare, government,
education, and enterprise markets that must balance performance, security, and regulatory
demands.
Built-in immutability and air-gapped archives also enhance ransomware protection
and help meet stringent compliance requirements.
“We’re thrilled to partner with Pink Elephant as they transform how European organizations
manage their long-term data,”
said Hugues Meyrath, Chief Executive Officer for Quantum.“ActiveScale Cold Storage delivers a unique combination of scalability, durability, and
economics, especially for customers facing exponential data growth and rising component,
power, and cooling costs.”
With this solution now live, Pink Elephant believes it is well positioned to expand its
sovereign storage services across Europe, helping customers unlock operational efficiency
while meeting the demands of modern data workflows.
To read the full case study, visit:
https://www.quantum.com/en/resources/customer-success/pink-elephant/
To learn more about ActiveScale Cold Storage, visit:
https://www.quantum.com/en/products/object-storage/
Quantum and Pink Elephant are hosting a joint webinar on March 26. Sign up to join live or
watch on-demand:
https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/13139/662643
About Pink Elephant
Pink Elephant is a global IT services provider specializing in data resilience, cloud services,
and managed IT solutions. Through its Data Resilience portfolio, Pink Elephant delivers
Backup as a Service, Disaster Recovery as a Service, and long-term data retention solutions
to customers across healthcare, education, public sector, and enterprise markets.
Pink Elephant manages more than 250 petabytes of customer data across sovereign data
centers in the Netherlands and Germany.
About Quantum
Quantum delivers end-to-end data management solutions designed for the AI era. With over
four decades of experience, our data platform has allowed customers to extract the
maximum value from their unique, unstructured data.
From high-performance ingest that
powers AI applications and demanding data-intensive workloads, to massive, durable data
lakes to fuel AI models, Quantum delivers the most comprehensive and cost-efficient
solutions.
Leading organizations in life sciences, government, media and entertainment,
research, and industrial technology trust Quantum with their most valuable asset – their
data.
For more information visit: www.quantum.com
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