The vendor also unveiled its Vision management software this week, which it says can pull data from all Quantum devices.
The idea is to give a single pane of glass where an admin can see all their resources, says Whitner. It gives you information like IP address, what models, and what the firmware is.
At this stage, however, the Vision software, which runs on a Windows server, is fairly limited in scope, only drawing information from Quantum disk and tape devices.
The exec explained that Quantum has certainly not ruled out extending Vision to devices from other vendors but added that this is not high on the vendors list of priorities. Our goal is not to be in the third-party storage resource management business.
Pricing for Quantum Vision, which is available now, starts at $7,500 for a solution managing two disk or tape systems.