Quantum Corp Partners with Pink Elephant for Innovative Data Resilience Services in Europe

As organizations in Europe continue to face the dual challenges of escalating data volumes and increasingly stringent regulatory retention requirements, the need for scalable and resilient data management solutions becomes paramount. Pink Elephant sought a robust foundation for its Data Management as a Service (DMaaS) offerings, which include Backup as a Service (BaaS) and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). Their goal was to implement a platform capable of storing multi-petabyte datasets while minimizing operating costs, energy consumption, and complexity.

After a comprehensive evaluation of available alternatives, Pink Elephant selected Quantum's ActiveScale Cold Storage for its unique capabilities. This storage solution offers S3-compatible access, integrated tape cold tiers, and multi-site data distribution—all managed within a single namespace.

The deployment of DMaaS Clouddrive Cold spans three data centers in the Netherlands, ensuring that the service meets regulatory compliance and customer expectations for data durability and accessibility. With data distributed across multiple locations and designed to safeguard against disruptive events, Pink Elephant can provide a service with an impressive 15 nines of durability and continuous availability.

The inclusion of a built-in tape-based cold tier significantly enhances the total cost of ownership by reducing power consumption, physical footprint, and operational expenses compared to traditional disk-only alternatives.

Rene Sesink, Product Manager at Pink Elephant, stated, “Customers asked us for cheap and resilient storage for long-term data. It had to be highly available, spread across multiple data centers. That’s why we chose Quantum.”

Jeroen Boekkamp, Technology Lead for Datacenter Cloud Services at Pink Elephant, added, “The beauty of ActiveScale Cold Storage is that you simply store the data, and it’s written across multiple locations automatically. You can read it from any of them. That’s exactly what we needed.”

The architecture of the ActiveScale Cold Storage is both flexible and policy-driven, enabling Pink Elephant to offer multi-year data retention with predictable costs. This makes it an attractive option for customers across various sectors, including healthcare, government, education, and enterprise markets—where balancing performance, security, and regulatory demands is crucial.

Built-in immutability and air-gapped archives further enhance ransomware protection, ensuring compliance with stringent regulations.

Hugues Meyrath, Chief Executive Officer of Quantum, expressed enthusiasm about the partnership, stating, “We’re thrilled to partner with Pink Elephant as they transform how European organizations manage their long-term data. ActiveScale Cold Storage delivers a unique combination of scalability, durability, and economics, especially for customers facing exponential data growth and rising component, power, and cooling costs.”

With the DMaaS Clouddrive Cold service now operational, Pink Elephant is poised to expand its sovereign storage offerings across Europe, helping clients unlock operational efficiencies while effectively managing modern data workflows.

For those interested in further exploring this innovative solution, Quantum and Pink Elephant are hosting a joint webinar on March 26, which will be available for live participation and on-demand viewing.

Pink Elephant is a global IT services provider specializing in data resilience, cloud services, and managed IT solutions. With a robust Data Resilience portfolio that includes BaaS, DRaaS, and long-term data retention solutions, Pink Elephant manages over 250 petabytes of customer data across sovereign data centers in both the Netherlands and Germany.

Quantum Corporation provides end-to-end data management solutions tailored for the AI era. With over 40 years of experience, Quantum’s data platform helps customers derive maximum value from their unstructured data, supporting high-performance applications and massive, durable data lakes essential for AI models. Leading organizations across various sectors trust Quantum with their most valuable asset—data.

For more information, please visit Quantum's official website.