An interview from the 2025 NAB Show in Las Vegas with Skip Levens at the Quantum booth.

The Scalar i7 RAPTOR is a significant advancement in storage density, up to 200% better than traditional scale-up enterprise libraries and up to 82% better compared to newer scale-out high-density libraries. The Scalar i7 RAPTOR has an industry-leading 2,008 usable data slots in a single tape library cabinet or frame that delivers over 36 PB of storage using LTO-9 (native 18 TB/cartridge). This density advantage provides customers with significant cost savings, reducing customer library acquisition costs, support costs, floorspace costs, power/cooling costs and colocation costs.

The Scalar i7 RAPTOR design greatly simplifies service with all components being customer serviceable and replaceable in less than five minutes. In addition, all replaceable components are hardened to minimize damage from handling, also enabling customer replacements. This service simplification reduces downtime and improves customer service level agreements (SLA). In addition, all tape hardware is installed in the factory, simplifying onsite installation and allowing customers to self-install if desired.

The Scalar i7 RAPTOR leads the industry in sustainability with the highest 80 PLUS Platinum power supply efficiency rating—outperforming the Silver or unrated supplies found in most competing libraries. This power efficiency, combined with industry-leading storage density, makes the Scalar i7 RAPTOR the most power-efficient tape library per PB of storage available, helping customers achieve their sustainability goals while cutting operational costs.

The Scalar i7 RAPTOR offers many security features only offered with Quantum tape libraries, including advanced, patented ransomware recovery features like Active Vault and Logical Tape Blocking. Quantum libraries have unique features that protect libraries from unauthorized access, ensuring data integrity and providing enhanced air gap protection beyond the normal protection of other libraries.

The Scalar i7 RAPTOR offers seamless integration with other Quantum solutions like StorNext® file system and ActiveScale® scalable S3 object storage, and with all major tape management software like Veeam and Commvault. The Scalar i7 RAPTOR also fully supports AI workflows and environments that store files or objects.

ActiveScale and the Scalar i7 RAPTOR together deliver cost-effective, S3 Glacier-compatible cold storage services. By deploying multiple Scalar i7 RAPTORs in a Redundant Array of Independent Libraries (RAIL) architecture, ActiveScale manages and optimizes data placement across the libraries for industry leading availability, performance, and storage efficiency. The turnkey solution provides far greater durability than multi-copy tape systems, enhances data accessibility compared to hyperscale cloud storage and S3-to-object gateway solutions, and allows organizations to simply deploy low cost, high density, self-service data lakes, storage clouds, and large-scale archives.

Additionally, the Scalar i7 RAPTOR integrates with StorNext data services such FlexTier® to deliver full data lifecycle management from data creation to long-term retention and recall. As data moves across storage media, from Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) or solid-state drive (SSD) to hard disk drive (HDD), tape, or cloud, StorNext provides continuous access. Data requiring preservation over time can be copied or moved manually or by policy to the Scalar i7 RAPTOR for the lowest cost long-term retention.

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