Podcast: Quantum lacks profitability but it will come, says CEO | Computer Weekly
Summary
In this podcast, we talk to Quantum CEO Jamie Lerner about the company’s plans as it orients from a historical legacy in tape storage to flash and disk for artificial intelligence (AI), extreme capacity and very long retention periods, all in the context of a commercially challenging few years. He talks about how the company’s experience in media and entertainment, as well as scientific data that brings a well of expertise that fits the AI era. Quantum’s the only company that has this kind of experience in building a forever archive and allow you to do it economically, to figure out some of the data will be flash. When you combine extremely high-speed parallel file systems for unstructured data with forever archives, Quantum becomes a unique company, because I don’t think traditional enterprise vendors have either of those technologies. But right now with the rate of innovation in and around AI, in and around movie and television making, huge changes inside the IT infrastructure, we just feel this is a time for Quantum to be investing versus penny pinching.