Sydney's ACA Pacific inks distie agreement with Quantum Myriad

US data storage vendor Quantum has appointed ACA Pacific to distribute its object storage solution Myriad in Australia.

Myriad is cloud-based, all-flash file and object storage software that "elimint[es] the constraints, complexities and trade-offs of hardware-centric network attached storage," Quantum said.

The company's ANZ general manager Mark Gill said Myriad became generally available a month ago.

“We’ve wasted no time making it available to our resellers, and by extension to Australian businesses," he said

"Myriad’s modern cloud-native architecture makes it an easy-to-use solution that overcomes the limitations of hardware-centric designs and enables customers to adapt to future storage requirements while reducing the burden on IT workforce."

"It brings new levels of simplicity and adaptability to high-performance workloads without the constraints of specialised hardware."

Myriad is cloud-native, containerised and Kubernetes-orchestrated, which Quantum's CTO Bruce Coulthard said simplifies ongoing microservices orchestration in a Myriad cluster and enables new feature adoption "on the fly."

“This compares highly favourably to the ‘lowest common denominator’ limitations and rigidity of traditional hardware storage subsystems,” he said.

“Everything about Myriad is designed with simplicity in mind. The software automates much of the storage and networking management, so even large clusters are managed with almost no IT involvement."

"Software automatically detects, deploys, and configures new storage nodes within a cluster so you can scale, modify, or even shrink your cluster non-disruptively.”

Myriad features NVMe (non-volatile memory express) storage nodes communicating via internal software managed 100GbE RDMA remote direct memory access fabric.

“This eliminates networking complexities associated with legacy scale-out NAS systems, resulting in zero-touch storage and network management,” Coulthard explained.

Although the initial Myriad release will be available on Quantum appliances, customers can provide their hardware in the future.

“Myriad expands Quantum's portfolio of solutions for unstructured data and is ideally suited for emerging high-growth use cases that require more performance and more scale, including AI and machine learning, modern data lakes, VFX and animation, and other high-bandwidth and high IOPs applications," Gill said.