Quantum this quarter finally swung

Quantum was unexpectedly caught in a loss last quarter, and the quarter finally swung to a profit. Quantum has entered the small and medium Enterprise File Manager storage and Virtual server backup and De-duplication market.

Quantum lost $5 million last quarter, and it was the first quarterly loss in fiscal year 2012, largely because of the company's sales mistakes. Quantum last quarter's revenue was 154 million dollars. Quantum's revenue for the quarter was 165 million U.S. dollars, down 2% from a year earlier, but net profit rose to $3.56 million from $3 million trillion in the same period last month. Thanks to the efforts of quantum, the new head of sales, Ted Stinson.

Quantum has repaid a lot of debt this quarter and has repaid 30 million of billions of dollars in priority debt, and at the end of the quarter, Quantum still holds 69 million-dollar priority debt, 135 million-dollar convertible bonds and 49 million-dollar cash and cash equivalents. The S & P rating service promoted the quantum Outlook rating from "stable" to "positive". To the surprise of investors, Quantum's revenue cost this quarter fell to $93.4 million from $96.32 million trillion in the same period last year. The efficiency of the quantum is getting higher.

This quarter quantum still have some due to abandon OEM cooperation caused by pending transactions, but not much, and brand manufacturers to improve the volume. "This is the 8th consecutive quarter of growth in brand trading revenue and the highest quarterly disk and software revenue," said Jon Gacek, CEO and CEO. ”

Quantum's sales of DXi 6701/02 products, released in July, are good. It said that the product is the company's history of the most successful release of a brand system products, products create the highest revenue. Everything is going well, and everything about product development and expansion is progressing well.

Expand Product Portfolio

Quantum has entered the mainstream small and medium Enterprise File Manager market, and announced the introduction of a portable Backup-to-disk product. NDX-8 nas is a 8TB NAS product that can replicate data to another offline NDX-8. Quantum said the product was equipped with the Intel Core i3 3.3GHz processor and 4GB RAM, with performance and storage capacity of twice times the same NAS products.

NDX-8D is equipped with Datastor Shield software, which means that it can perform agentless backups and DXi de-duplication, with a maximum of 20:1 per cent data de-duplication based on the client. NDX-8D is priced at $5139 and NDX-8 for $4029.

It also announced the introduction of the RDX 8000 portable disk product, configured its 8RDX disk with a maximum capacity of 8TB. Quantum announced that the product will support 1.5TB 2.5-inch hard drives next year. RDX 8000, with duplicate data deletion, is priced at $4999, and RDX 8000, without duplicate data removal, is priced at $3889.

Vmpro 4601 is a capacity on-demand, 2U rack, virtual machine backup and duplicate data removal products, the capacity of 4TB increments, the largest for 12TB. It uses the Pancetera technology that quantum acquired through acquisitions, supports vsphere V5 and consolidates quantum DXi data deduplication technologies. It can also copy the contents of it to another Vmpro 4000. Its starting price is 24250 dollars.

Quantum said: "The Vmpro software shows the file system diagram of the virtual machine file, can automatically create local virtual machine copy on the secondary disk, the maximum can reduce the amount of virtual machine data that needs to be backed up 75%, improve the data de-duplication rate." All Vmpro software runs inside the virtual environment, so no external servers are required and they support third-party backup applications. ”

Quantum claims that the software provides the industry's most effective de-duplication rate and fastest virtual machine recovery.

We also hear that there are some good news in the realm of file virtual StorNext. NetApp asserts that its media Content management system relies on a Atto Celerity FC adapter that has exceeded all previous Atto tested storage subsystems. There are also E5460 arrays and stornext based on Engenio, which means that NetApp may have become an important stornext reseller.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)