NAB 2026: Quantum to Showcase Tape-Anchored Storage Workflows, Responds to Industry Supply Chain and Power Disruption

Quantum Corp. will exhibit at NAB Show 2026 (Booth N1726), presenting what it calls shockproof workflows - storage architectures designed to address supply chain constraints, rising flash and hard disk costs, and cyber-resilience requirements. The workflows are built around Quantum's ActiveScale object storage platform with integrated cold storage and the Quantum Scalar i7 tape library.

Shift happens, says Hugues Meyrath, CEO, Quantum. It's been a time of extraordinary change for media and content producers worldwide - and threats to business-as-usual' storage and workflow assumptions are here to stay. Most organizations that depend on flash or hard drive-only solutions are facing the need to urgently review their architectures and ask hard questions: where is my supply chain exposure, how do I contain spiking flash costs, how do I inoculate my workflows against the next disruption? These customers need actionable answers now, and an architecture that's ready for what's next-and we are ready with workflows designed to be shockproof, built by Quantum.

Storage is unique in the data center because it is the only technology that is both used and consumed, says Marc Staimer, President, Dragon Slayer Consulting. That means storage demand is always additive, and when you combine that with GenAI's seemingly insatiable appetite for infrastructure, fab manufacturing that simply cannot keep pace, and data centers already running out of power, you get massive shortages in memory, SSDs, and hard drives. Tape is distinguished as a unique storage technology in that it doesn't compete for fab capacity, doesn't consume power at rest, and scales without hitting the same supply chain wall. Organizations that recognize this now will be in a fundamentally stronger position than those waiting for the old economics to return.

Quantum cites several characteristics of tape storage relevant to current infrastructure pressures: LTO-10 cartridges deliver up to 40 terabytes of native capacity; tape drives in Quantum's Scalar libraries exceed 400 megabytes per second with AES-256 hardware encryption; IEEE research documents a 97% reduction in carbon footprint per terabyte compared to hard disk drives; and tape cartridges in a vault are not accessible via network-based attacks.

Solutions on Display at NAB

ActiveScale with ActiveScale Cold Storage: Object storage with integrated single-namespace tape as a cold tier, providing on-premises cold storage without egress fees.

Scalar i7 RAPTOR: A modular, scalable tape library built to hyperscaler specifications.

Quantum StorNext: A file system and storage management platform for orchestrating data movement across flash, disk, object, and tape tiers.

Quantum's team will be available at NAB to discuss HDD and flash supply volatility, content lifecycle strategies, and ransomware-resilient archive design. Meetings can be scheduled at quantum.com/nab.

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