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Quantum Unveils Industry’s First 1U Backup Appliance with 480 TB All-Flash Capacity to Drive Enterprise Data Resilience

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New DXi T-Series models deliver lightning-fast recovery, seamless scalability, and pay-as-you-grow licensing in a compact, cyber-resilient form factor

Quantum Corporation (Nasdaq: QMCO) today announced two new high-capacity models in its all-flash DXi® T-Series data protection line: the DXi T-10-240 and DXi T-10-480. As the industry’s first 1U high-performance deduplication appliances with up to 480 TB of raw NVMe capacity, these systems enable customers to protect more data in less space, delivering faster backups, ultra-rapid data recovery, and significant reductions in rack space, power usage, and management complexity.

The DXi T-10-240 and T-10-480 are purpose-built for high-performance environments that don’t require full-scale data center infrastructure. Powered by high-speed NVMe flash and Quantum’s proven inline deduplication, both models deliver data resilience by accelerating backup and restore operations with data reduction ratios of up to 70:1. This makes them ideal for ransomware mitigation, DevOps environments with frequent backups, and edge sites where space, power, and time are at a premium.

“A strong cyber resilience strategy is no longer optional—it’s essential,” said Brian Corcoran, general manager at Storage IT Solutions. “Fast, reliable recovery is the difference between quick bounce-back and prolonged downtime. In our demo center, the DXi T-Series has proven it can deliver on that promise, with exceptional restore performance and space-saving deduplication. It’s a powerful, compact platform that helps organizations stay prepared and protected in the face of growing cyber threats.”

The new models are designed to scale as data grows, without disruption or unexpected costs. With Quantum’s flexible, software-based pay-as-you-grow licensing, customers can activate the capacity they need upfront and expand in increments of 15 TB or 30 TB over time. This eliminates the need for forklift upgrades or downtime, while keeping budgets predictable.

"The demands on IT for shorter and shorter recovery time objectives continue to ramp up even as the sophistication of cyber threats increases. This puts pressure on backup systems to effectively combine scalability, speed, and resilience,” said Guy Currier, chief analyst at the Futurum Group. “Solutions that increase capacity while reducing footprint are well aligned to meet this need to protect and recover large data volumes, efficiently reflecting the broad trend towards infrastructure that’s ever-more resilient while also able to scale to meet demand without introducing new complexities or undue costs."

In addition to rapid recovery and flexible scaling, the new DXi T-Series models integrate fully with Quantum’s broader data protection portfolio. They can serve as a high-speed landing zone for daily backups and VM recovery, with replication or tiering to a DXi 9200 hybrid system for petabyte-scale on-premises retention. Long-term backups can be vaulted to Quantum’s ActiveScale® object storage or Scalar® tape libraries for immutability, air-gapped protection, and cloud-scale durability, all managed within a single Quantum ecosystem.

The DXi T-Series has also been recognized with multiple industry accolades, including the 2025 GOVIES Government Security Award and a prestigious Gold Globee Technology Award for Data Protection, earning the highest designation from the judges. These awards validate the DXi platform as a leading solution for secure, high-performance backup and recovery in today’s data-driven, threat-prone landscape.

“Customers have adopted our all-flash DXi appliances because recovery speed is critical when every minute counts during a cyber event,” said Sanam Mittal, general manager of DXi at Quantum. “With the DXi T-10-240 and T-10-480, we’ve quadrupled the usable capacity of our T-Series offerings in the same 1U footprint while preserving affordability and flexibility through software-based capacity activation. This is a breakthrough in efficient, high-performance backup operations.”

The new DXi T-10-240 and T-10-480 appliances are available now. To learn more, visit www.quantum.com/DXi.

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