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Major cloud vendors are aggressively changing long-standing licensing agreements, enforcing pooled tenant quotas as low as 100TB, and leaving some universities facing up to 95% reductions in their cloud storage allocations.

For institutions managing multi-terabyte research datasets, longitudinal academic studies, and critical public archives, relying on standard cloud productivity suites for bulk storage is no longer viable. But moving that data into hyperscale public cloud overage tiers introduces a new trap: crippling monthly recurring costs and unpredictable egress fees.

   

It is time to bring contestability, sovereignty, and scale back to your data architecture.

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Quantum ActiveScale is the intelligent object storage platform purpose-built to solve the massive unstructured data challenges faced by modern research institutions and public sector agencies.

Proven in Higher Education

When the University of Auckland transitioned from legacy tape libraries to manage rapidly expanding research data, it chose ActiveScale. The result? Bulk data access, affordable long-term archiving, and seamless integration with high-speed research networks, while maintaining local data sovereignty and achieving 19 nines of data durability.

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Why Public Sector and Education Leaders Choose ActiveScale:

  • Safeguard Data Sovereignty & Compliance: Whether deployed on-premises or through sovereign cloud partners (like ASI Solutions InfiniStor in NZ), ActiveScale keeps sensitive institutional and research data strictly within jurisdictional borders, governed by your security tooling.
  • Zero Egress Fees & Predictable TCO: Stop penalising researchers for accessing their own data. ActiveScale eliminates hidden data retrieval fees and unpredictable monthly bills, making budget forecasting straightforward.
  • Seamless S3 & Glacier API Simplicity: Avoid workflow disruption. Research teams and departments manage active data via standard S3 interfaces, while IT uses integrated cold storage tape tiers with S3 Glacier API support for ultra-low-cost, long-term preservation.
  • 40% to 60% Footprint Reduction: Advanced three-site erasure coding provides maximum data durability and site-level disaster recovery. Meet sustainability targets without the financial and environmental cost of storing multiple replicated copies.

Don’t accept unfavourable vendor licensing terms. 

Don’t compromise on data accessibility.

Let’s discuss how Quantum ActiveScale provides future-proof, cost-effective foundations for your institution's most valuable asset: data.
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