Jamie Lerner CEO and President, Quantum

Most recently VP and COO for Pivot3 after executive positions at Cisco and Seagate
Quantum Corp. announced that its board of directors has appointed Jamie Lerner as CEO and president effective July 1, 2018.

He is a seasoned executive with experience developing innovative technology portfolios and high-growth organizations, will oversee the day-to-day leadership of the company, including its ongoing business transformation and cost savings initiatives.

"Jamie is a competitive and energetic leader with a strong reputation for inspiring teams, fortifying business operations and directing astute product strategies to deliver bottom-line results," said Raghu Rau, chairman, Quantum. "He understands the storage market dynamics, customer needs and the opportunities that exist. We look forward to his leadership in helping Quantum complete its highest priority of achieving sustained profitability while delivering top storage solutions and services to customers."

Lerner brings storage industry knowledge and cross-functional management experience and has served in executive roles at a number of global and Fortune 500 companies, including Cisco and Seagate. While at Cisco, he led the turnaround of three business units under the cloud and systems technology group, and managed approximately 40 products with more than 2,500 employees. At Seagate, he served as president of the cloud systems and solutions business, where he integrated the Xyratex acquisition, turned around eight quarters of negative growth, and achieved four consecutive quarters of top line growth above the plan of record. Most recently, he served as VP and COO for Pivot3, a hyperconverged infrastructure and video surveillance technology company, where he had responsibility for operations, global field sales, customer support, professional services, manufacturing and supply chain.

"I am excited to join Quantum during this transformative phase," said Lerner. "At a time when the industry is experiencing disruptive technologies and new, evolving storage requirements, I see much opportunity for Quantum and its ability to drive customer success.  I am truly excited to work with our customers, employees, partners and shareholders to drive the next phase of Quantum's success."

Nexsan Assureon Cloud Transfer for Secure Archive Storage System

Nexsan Corporation announced the Assureon Cloud Transfer, an additional feature of its Assureon secure archive storage system. 

This add-on enables customers to freely migrate or copy data to or from public cloud platforms and Assureon's on-premise archive storage providing long-term data protection and retention. Assureon Cloud Transfer is designed to combat the rising costs of cloud storage and offers a security and integrity feature set.

The cloud offers flexibility and elasticity, but by unnecessarily keeping cold data in the cloud for long periods of time, organizations are struggling with painfully high invoices from their cloud vendor. With Assureon Cloud Transfer, customers can utilize the best features of the cloud, while offloading cold data onto a secure Assureon on-premise hardware platform. This reduces the accumulating premium costs associated with keeping data in the public cloud, providing data portability while reducing risk of cloud vendor lock in. Assureon Cloud Transfer optimizes demands on backup infrastructure. In addition, organizations can set policies to automate the process, allowing cold data to move freely and automatically from and to the cloud to Assureon, yet retaining immediate access to all files from any desired cloud server instance.

The Assureon on-premise archive hardware provides assured data protection and integrity for long term storage of important digital assets. Used by thousands of organizations to protect their most sensitive or valuable digital files, it implements a file fingerprinting and asset serialization process combined with metadata authenticated by a private blockchain. This enables automated integrity audits, providing positive assurance of the completeness and authenticity of business records. It also provides a suite of defenses against the growing menace of ransomware and other threats which mimic the permissions of genuine users to cause damage and may be configured to support any regulatory or compliance regimen including HIPAA, SEC17a-4, and GDPR.

"Using cloud storage for all types of data, including long-term and sensitive information, is like deciding to store most of your property in a rented storage unit rather than in your own home," said Gary Watson, co-founder and CTO, Nexsan. "The costs keep rising as you accumulate more possessions and require you to expand the space. While it certainly is easy and sometimes makes sense to store some extra items this way temporarily, when it comes to a valid long-term strategy, the most secure and cost-efficient method is to keep permanent and valuable items close to home. This same logic and the same economics applies to cloud vs. on-premise storage. Assureon Cloud Transfer makes it easier, and extremely cost effective, to move valuable data back on-premise for greater security and control, or to keep the authoritative copy in-house while allowing cloud-based copies to be deleted to save money whenever desired."

Nexsan's Assureon is a highly reliable archive system that is ideal for customers who need file security and especially if they need regulatory compliance. It resonates well with customers across all industries, and this latest capability will meet many of today's enterprise IT challenges. Many customers are looking to migrate to the cloud in some form. Nexsan has bridged the gap to allow customers full control over security and compliance. By enabling the utilization of both cloud and on-premise, an organization can now create an optimized architecture for its needs."