Quantum's Unique Combination of Experience, Products and Service Capabilities
Address Growing Storage Challenges and Regulations
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantum Corp. (NYSE: DSS), a
global leader in storage, today announced it will demonstrate best practices
for backup, archive and recovery, including the first public showing of the
company's latest enterprise disk-based backup, tape automation and DLTtape(TM)
technology products to federal government IT professionals at the FOSE 2004
exposition beginning today in Washington, D.C. Attendees will be able to see
the tools needed to help effectively address the exponential data growth
created by the automation of government processes and conform to a growing
list of federal regulations and pending compliance deadlines.
Government IT leaders face the challenges of aligning their data
protection strategies with information management and business continuance
processes. Additionally, the need to retain electronic documents,
communication records and other important transaction records for long periods
of time to meet government records-retention regulations is causing government
agencies to reassess the way they manage information across their
organizations.
Quantum's long-standing commitment and expertise in the open-systems
market give the company a unique set of strengths to focus on exceptionally
reliable products and a comprehensive set of service and support options to
meet the complex requirements of the diverse government marketplace. Quantum's
portfolio of products includes disk-based backup systems, tape automation
libraries and autoloaders supporting popular linear tape drive technologies,
and entry-level to enterprise DLTtape drives and media -- all sold and
supported by a network of best-in-breed government resellers.
"DLT Solutions partners exclusively with Quantum because they are
continually bringing innovative technology to the market," said
Patrick Vaughan, director of storage for DLT Solutions, a premier government
solutions partner. "Quantum's newest products -- the PX720 enterprise
library, the DX100 Enhanced Backup System and SDLT 600 tape drive -- are more
than just innovative. They have been specifically designed to meet the
real-world needs of even the most complex environments."
Quantum's DX-Series disk-based Enhanced Backup Systems are designed to
increase the flexibility and performance of the backup and restore process for
data centers running mission-critical applications. Quantum's approach to
disk-based backup through tape emulation allows customers to take advantage of
the functionality designed in leading backup software packages, without any
changes to existing management processes. By combining DX-Series systems with
Quantum's P-Series and M-Series tape libraries, customers can improve backup
and restore performance and reliability while addressing changing data
retention and data growth challenges.
"Daily, we face the increasing demands of managing terabytes of data and
the impact on network performance, addressing the complexity of managing
storage devices and controlling the costs of maintaining storage
infrastructure," said Randy Mays, file services IT director at Tinker Air
Force Base. "A combination of Quantum's DX-Series disk-based backup systems
and a Quantum P-Series tape library using SDLT(TM) drive technology has helped
us to effectively address our most challenging problems."
To meet the needs of smaller government agencies and remote or distributed
environments, Quantum delivers a comprehensive set of single tape drive
autoloaders to meet a wide range of capacity, performance and pricing needs.
Quantum's SuperLoader(TM) offers industry-leading reliability and data density
while the ValueLoader(TM) gives customers the benefits of automated backups at
an extremely low cost per gigabyte. Quantum's tape automation families as well
as its autoloader products offer customers the choice of leading linear tape
drive technologies.
Quantum remains the leading supplier of super drives and is committed to
offering customers the flexibility of a single technology family from the
entry DLT VS(TM) series to the enterprise SDLT series. The SDLT 600 offers
industry-leading performance, capacity and compatibility and meets all of the
necessary requirements for today's demanding enterprise-class storage
environments. DLTSage(TM), a suite of diagnostic software included with all
SDLT 600 products, provides customers with the confidence that their backups
are successful and their data is uncompromised, delivering a new standard for
tape reliability and ease of management.
As part of the customer experience, Quantum offers a comprehensive set of
StorageCare(TM) service and support options that help government agencies
maximize their data protection investments. These include standard on-site
installation for its enterprise products and systems at no additional charge,
an offer unmatched in the industry, and a host of on-site support and
integration services.
"Growing data challenges cannot be met by introducing a new set of
products and solutions that create another level of complexity and process
issues," said Bob Merkert, director of Eastern region and government sales at
Quantum. "These challenges will most effectively be met by working closely
with customers and partners to deliver tools that offer best practices in an
open-systems approach."
Quantum is demonstrating its portfolio of products and systems March 23-25
at the FOSE tradeshow at booth number 1511 in the Washington, D.C. Convention
Center.
About Quantum
Quantum Corp., founded in 1980, is a global leader in storage, delivering
highly reliable backup, archive and recovery solutions that meet demanding
requirements for data integrity and availability with superior price
performance. Quantum is the world's largest supplier of half-inch cartridge
tape drives, and its DLTtape technology is the standard for tape backup,
archiving, and recovery of business-critical data for the mid-range
enterprise. Quantum is also a leader in the design, sale and service of
autoloaders and automated tape libraries used to manage, store and transfer
data. Over the past year, Quantum has been one of the pioneers in the emerging
market of disk-based backup, offering solutions that emulate a tape library
and are optimized for data protection. Quantum sales for the fiscal year ended
March 31, 2003, were approximately $871 million. Quantum Corp., 1650
Technology Drive, Suite 800, San Jose, CA 95110, 408-944-4000,
http://www.quantum.com.
NOTE: Quantum and the Quantum logo are trademarks of Quantum Corporation
registered in the United States and other countries. DLT, DLTSage, DLTtape,
DLT VS, StorageCare, SDLT, SuperLoader and ValueLoader are trademarks of
Quantum Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective
owners.
"Safe Harbor" Statement under the U.S. Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995: This press release contains "forward-looking" statements
within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
These statements are based on management's current expectations and are
subject to certain risks and uncertainties. As a result, actual results may
differ materially from the forward-looking statements contained herein.
Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those
described herein include, but are not limited to, operational difficulties,
unforeseen technological limitations, the economic environment of the storage
and information systems industry and the general economic environment. More
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Quantum's business generally, including risk factors and uncertainties in
addition to those described above, are set forth in Quantum's periodic filings
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limited to, those described in the section entitled "Management's Discussion
and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations -- Trends and
Uncertainties," pages 43 to 55, in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with
the SEC on June 30, 2003; pages 51-62, in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q
filed with the SEC on February 11, 2004 and those described in any
subsequently filed reports. Such reports contain and identify important
factors that could cause actual events and results to differ materially from
those contained in our projections or forward-looking statement.
SOURCE Quantum Corp.
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CONTACT:
Sean Lamb, Public Relations of Quantum Corp.,
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