Meridian Data

Meridian Data, Inc. was a Battery Ventures-backed maker of network-attached storage (NAS) appliances, best known for the Snap! Server workgroup NAS line and one of the industry's first storage operating systems for entry- and workgroup-level appliances. Quantum Corporation acquired Meridian Data in a stock swap valued at roughly $85M, completed June 1, 1999, folding its technology into Quantum's storage systems strategy. The company has not operated independently since and publishes no current developer or API surface; this profile is retained for API Evangelist network completeness as a historical, acquired entity.

Meridian Data is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Storage, Network Attached Storage, NAS, and Data Storage.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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description: Meridian Data, Inc. was a Battery Ventures-backed maker of network-attached storage (NAS) appliances, best known
  for the Snap! Server workgroup NAS line and one of the industry's first storage operating systems for entry- and workgroup-level
  appliances. Quantum Corporation acquired Meridian Data in a stock swap valued at roughly $85M, completed June 1, 1999, folding
  its technology into Quantum's storage systems strategy. The company has not operated independently since and publishes no
  current developer or API surface; this profile is retained for API Evangelist network completeness as a historical, acquired
  entity.
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