Case Study: Ivy League University achieves up to 75% storage cost savings with Quantum Corporation's Artico private-cloud archive

Ivy League University Saves Up To 75% With Private-Cloud Archive

An Ivy League university was drowning in rapidly growing research and departmental data—from genomic sequencing to digital arts—yet needed to retain files long-term for future analysis while working within tight, departmentally fragmented budgets. Adding primary disk was too expensive and public cloud options were projected to be costly over time and would remove direct control of the data.

The IT team built a petabyte-scale private cloud using Quantum’s Artico NAS (73TB) and Scalar i6000 tape libraries (4.8PB) with StorNext-managed tiering: users see a single file system, files are automatically moved between disk and tape and restored on demand, and two tape copies provide DR. The result is secure, highly available long-term retention with departmental billing and automated integrity checks—at less than 0.25¢/GB/month, delivering up to 75% savings versus the public cloud.

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