AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- KubeCon +
CloudNativeCon — Quantum Corp. (NYSE: QTM) today announced that
Rook, the open source project it initiated just over a year ago,
has gained significant support in the developer community and
continues to deliver against significant key enterprise feature
requirements as the project progresses. Rook provides the benefits
of cloud infrastructures to not only public cloud but also
on-premise environments, including the ability to flexibly allocate
object, block and — in the future — file storage to different
application and business units. The project has been developed to
enable organizations to modernize their data centers with dynamic
application orchestration for distributed storage systems running
in on-premise, cloud-native environments.
Self-Managing, Self-Scaling and Self-Healing
Rook
turns distributed storage software into self-managing, self-scaling
and self-healing storage services. It does so by automating the
tasks of a storage administrator, including deployment,
bootstrapping, configuration, provisioning, scaling, upgrading,
migration, disaster recovery, monitoring and resource management.
In addition, it capitalizes on the power of the underlying
cloud-native container management, scheduling and orchestration
platform to perform its duties.
Deep Integration Into Cloud-Native Environments
Designed for Kubernetes and other evolving cloud-native
environments, Rook leverages extension points and provides a
seamless experience for scheduling, lifecycle management, resource
management, security, monitoring and user experience. Benefits
include:
- Software-defined storage running on commodity hardware;
- File, block and object storage presentations;
- Hyper-scale or hyper-converged storage options;
- Elastic storage that can easily scale up or down;
- Zero-touch management; and
- Integrated data protection with snapshot, cloning and
versioning.
Community Momentum
Community support has accelerated
rapidly as companies and users have deployed Rook in testing and
staging environments (on-premise and public cloud):
- Rook is in the top 0.2 percent of the most popular projects on
GitHub, with more than 1,750 stars.
- It has over 40 contributors.
- It has more than 600,000 container downloads.
Reviews have been quite positive as the following testimonials
demonstrate:
- "We're excited for a true cloud-native storage platform. Having
experienced the complexity of running Ceph on Kubernetes, Rook
provides the stability and power of an established software-defined
storage solution with the ease of use of native Kubernetes
integration. With the latest release of Rook, we're looking to
implement it as a core part of our storage platform." –
Hunter Nield, CTO, Acaleph
- "On my farm, it's important to make efficient use of resources
I already have. With Rook's Kubernetes-native design, I'm able to
use commodity hardware without sacrificing redundancy for my
storage or availability of my services. That's why Rook fits
perfectly in my farm's metrics and automation systems, and I follow
its development closely." – Bryan
Zubrod, founder, Zubrod Farms
- "I'm really excited to see Rook evolve to a fully
production-grade system. I've used and contributed to it from an
early stage and can't wait to use it in even more production
systems." – Lucas Käldström, founder, luxas labs
A beta version of Rook (release 0.7) will be available this
month, followed by a production-ready version in early 2018.
Quantum plans to deploy Rook within commercial enterprise storage
appliances by April 2018.
To learn more about Rook, visit Quantum's booth (P12) at KubeCon
+ CloudNativeCon, see https://rook.io or
https://github.com/rook and follow @rook_io on Twitter.
About Quantum
Quantum is a leading expert in
scale-out tiered storage, archive and data protection, providing
solutions for capturing, sharing, managing and preserving digital
assets over the entire data lifecycle. From small businesses to
major enterprises, more than 100,000 customers have trusted Quantum
to address their most demanding data workflow challenges. Quantum's
end-to-end, tiered storage foundation enables customers to maximize
the value of their data by making it accessible whenever and
wherever needed, retaining it indefinitely and reducing total cost
and complexity. See how at www.quantum.com/customerstories.
Quantum, the Quantum logo and Rook are either registered
trademarks or trademarks of Quantum Corporation and its affiliates
in the United States and/or other
countries. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
"Safe Harbor" Statement: This press release contains
"forward-looking" statements. All statements other than statements
of historical fact are statements that could be deemed
forward-looking statements. Quantum advises caution in reliance on
forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include,
without limitation, 1) benefits and value to customers from Rook,
2) customer demand for and Quantum's future revenue from Rook, 3)
the availability of a beta version and a production-ready version
of Rook and 4) Quantum's plans to deploy Rook within commercial
enterprise storage appliances by April
2018. All forward-looking statements are based on
information available to Quantum on the date hereof. These
statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other
factors that may cause Quantum's actual results to differ
materially from those implied by the forward-looking statement,
including unexpected changes in the Company's business. More
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Securities and Exchange Commission, including, but not limited to,
those risks and uncertainties listed in the section entitled "Risk
Factors," in Quantum's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission on November 9, 2017, especially those risks listed
in this section under the heading "Our results of operations depend
on a limited number of products and on new product introductions,
which may not be successful, in which case our business, financial
condition and results of operations may be materially and adversely
affected." Quantum expressly disclaims any obligation to update or
alter its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise, except as required by
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Public Relations Contact:
Brad Cohen
Quantum Corp.
408-944-4044
brad.cohen@quantum.com
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