QStar Technologies Adds Business Continuity And Advanced Protection To Archive Data Management
QStar Technologies, today announces the availability of its Simulated Disk Jukebox and Simulated Tape Jukebox archive management software.
With its Simulated Jukebox software, QStar can manage physical disk space available on Hard Drive based devices (Hard Disk, RAID, DAS) or hard drive based write-once appliances (CAS) as if it were media loaded into a library, within an Integral Volume set. The Hard Drive or write-once appliance may be partitioned to simulate virtual shelves and allows full use of import and export commands. QStar offers two types of Simulated Jukeboxes within a Hard Drive configuration, Simulated Disk Jukebox (SDJ) and Simulated Tapes Jukebox (STJ). SDJ/STJ provides the advantage of grouping together multiple native file systems as a single large storage repository. This allows multiple devices to be managed as a single device or volume, overcoming operating system limitations on size of a single logical volume. Also with SDJ/STJ there is no limitation to the number of files that can be stored in the QStar Standard File Format volume nor is there any file size limitation.
Many regulations require timely access to archive data. By managing archive data on a disk array or Content Addressable Storage (CAS) appliance and mirroring that data to a removable media archive device, users gain faster access to compliance data by accessing it from the disk array or CAS Appliance. CAS devices provide fast and reliable archive storage in a revision secure environment, however often these devices are not protected beyond their inherent self-healing capabilities. SDJ/STJ allows users to further protect that archive data by writing an additional copy either to another CAS device or to an optical or tape storage library. Should the array fail for any reason, data is still accessible from the secondary device. This extends the level of protection beyond a single appliance for a more robust archive continuity plan.
Mirroring reduces downtime for backups because an exact duplicate of the data exists at all times; without the expense, manpower and the time needed to generate backups. In addition the mirror with SDJ or STJ can be done on removable media and can be done even to write-once media types for maximum security and regulatory needs.
In addition SDJ/STJ allows users to take advantage of features previously available only on removable media devices. Users can make copies of data from simulated volumes to removable media volumes automatically with our Copydisk function. This allows users to make backup or distribution copies of data when needed. SDJ/STJ allows users to write images in a standard exportable format such as ISO or UDF, which can later be burned onto CD/DVD or MO/UDO/PDD. In addition users can create a data set that can be mirrored at a later point in time. Volumes can be configured to logical views that make sense for a specific application. Users can either select the block-size and number of blocks for each volume or they can use a predefined value for the volume size.
"Data protection is critical, even for data archives. With more archive data being stored on Content Addressable Storage (CAS) systems, it becomes more important to provide a cost effective disaster recovery copy of the archive data," said Riccardo Finotti, President of QStar Technologies. "This is especially true since many archives are much larger than a few hour backup window needed by traditional backup software."
QStar's Simulated Jukebox software is currently available on Windows, Linux and UNIX operating systems. More product information is available at www.qstar.com along with an application for demonstration software downloads. Please contact us for reseller information at 800.568.2578 or email us at info@qstar.com.
About QStar Technologies, Inc.
Founded in 1987, QStar is an international software company specializing in providing storage management solutions for use with advanced automated data storage devices. A leader in the archive data protection space, QStar allows customers to store, protect, and manage data in a tiered storage network environment. The company's corporate headquarter is located at 99 NE Eglin Parkway, Suite #37, Fort Walton Beach, Florida 32548 (850) 243-0900 fax: (850) 243-4234, Web Site: www.qstar.com, with further sales and development offices in Europe.