Quantum Scalar i500 tape automation revenue surpasses $1 bn

BANGALORE, INDIA: Quantum Corp. announced that it has generated more than $1 billion in revenue to date from sales of its Scalar i500 tape library.

The Scalar i500 is the best-selling tape library in Quantum's history, and the $1 billion milestone reflects the platform's strength, continued innovation and broad-based customer adoption. Quantum also announced an expansion of its long-time partnership with Benchmark Electronics, which has been manufacturing the Scalar i500 since its introduction.

"Reaching this major milestone reflects the important role tape continues to play as an extremely cost-effective, energy-efficient and resilient technology for long-term data retention, archive and disaster recovery," said Robert Clark, senior VP, Data Protection Group, Quantum.

"With this in mind, we're continuing to build on our position as the market share leader in open systems tape automation, adding new products and features. In just the last year, for example, we've introduced a new high-density Scalar enterprise library and a new Scalar LTFS appliance, incorporated LTO-6 technology and expanded our line of StorNext archive enabled libraries for big data management."