Quantum ActiveScale P200

Overview

Quantum ActiveScale P200 is a scalable, high-performance object storage system designed for managing massive volumes of unstructured data across both “active” and “cold” data classes. It is built on the same ActiveScale architecture that supports extremely high durability, availability, and consistent performance from terabytes to exabytes. The P200 converged architecture integrates compute and storage functions into each node, allowing seamless growth and modular expansion as data demands increase.

The system is ideal for workloads such as AI/ML pipelines, analytics, content repositories, backup/archival, and multi-site data replication. It supports S3-compatible APIs for easy integration with modern applications, and offers advanced features such as erasure coding, dynamic data placement, versioning, and geo-spreading for resilient data protection.

Features

• Scalable architecture — Start small (e.g. three nodes minimum) and grow by adding nodes to scale throughput, capacity, and object count without disruption.
• Converged design — Each 1U node contains both compute and storage components, simplifying deployment and scaling.
• Dual-class data support — Handles both active (frequently accessed) and cold (infrequently accessed) data in one system, with policy-driven lifecycle management.
• Erasure coding & data protection — Strong data durability using configurable erasure coding, continuous integrity checks, and self-healing mechanisms.
• Dynamic Data Placement (DDP) — Automatically balances data across nodes to avoid hotspots and maximize resource utilization.
• Geo-spreading / multi-site support — Enables deployments across two or three geographic locations (2-Geo, 3-Geo), with cross-site erasure coding to safeguard against site-level failure.
• Strong consistency & versioning — Provides immediate consistency for S3 operations, versioning, and object locking to support compliance or protection against deletion.
• S3-compatible API & NFS support — Applications can use standard S3 RESTful API, and NFS volumes can be exposed for legacy use cases.
• Non-disruptive upgrades & expansion — Supports rolling upgrades and online scaling without downtime.
• Enterprise-grade security — Encryption in transit and at rest, object locking (WORM-like), role-based access, and audit capabilities.
• Optimized for both small & large objects — Intelligent policies adapt to object size to maintain efficiency.

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