Software

QStar Flagship Hierarchical Storage Management Software

QStar HSM has been setting the standard for Storage Management since its introduction. QStar HSM has continued to evolve to provide even greater performance and data security for the lifeblood of your business. With thousands of installations around the world and supporting a wide range of archival media and platforms, your choice of a solution is now easier to make than ever before. QStar’s HSM provides the security and accessibility you need for your data on your platform of choice.

FEATURES: -
• Single Volume View
• Off-Line Volume Tracking
• Automated Data Migration
• Transaction Logging Cache
• Schedule Archiving
• On-Line Back and Restore • Media Transportability
• Advanced Features

Supports: UDO/PDD/MO/DVD-RAM/Tape

QStar's Advanced Mirroring Product
QStar has extended the boundaries of Storage Management with the addition of real-time Mirroring to provide solutions to the most challenging network storage issues. By taking the security of a transaction logging cache, a system independent disk format and adding event based mirroring, QStar Data Director can now make your data even more secure and accessible than ever before.

FEATURES
• All the Features of QStar HSM
• Mirroring
• Hot Standby
• Automatic Re-Synchronization of Data
• Load Balancing

Supports: HDD/DAS/RAID/SAN/NAS/CAS/Tape/Optical

QStar has extended the boundaries of storage management with the addition of hard drive support in a simulated jukebox mode. By utilizing this technology, users are able to overcome some inherent operating system limitations, gain the ability to perform some functions that were previously only available to jukebox and library customers and setup real-time mirroring between simulated libraries and actual removable media storage libraries to provide solutions to the most challenging network storage issues. With mirroring now available between disk based simulated devices and actual devices, and by taking the security of a transaction logging cache, a system independent disk format with added event based mirroring, QStar provides an even more powerful data management solution.

FEATURES: -
• Offers two types of Simulated Jukeboxes within a Hard Drive configuration, Simulated Disk Jukebox (SDJ) and Simulated Tapes Jukebox (STJ).
• Copydisk function: allows users to make backup or distribution copies of data when needed.
• SDJ/STJ: allows users to create disk images in a standard exportable format such as ISO or UDF.
• Volumes can be configured to logical views.
• Mirrored Protection for Archive Data via Virtual Library with this configuration QStar can manage physical disk space available on a Hard Drive (Local Disk, RAID, DAS, NAS) or hard drive based write-once appliance (CAS) as if it were media loaded into an actual library as an Integral Volume set.
• Enhanced Security for CAS Appliances


SDJ/STJ fully supports QStar HSM, Data Director, Network Migrator and MultiStor.

Supports: DVD-ROM & CD-ROM

With the proliferation of CDs and DVDs in the data storage environment, the need to efficiently manage them has become greater than ever before. QStar‘s CD/DVD Axxess provides the degree of control and performance essential to provide fast access to your company information. Caching technology, minimizing mount points and providing ease of management of varying CD and DVD types makes QStar’s Axxess the obvious choice to control your disk storage.

FEATURES: -
• Standards Based Formats
• Multi Disk Sets
• Full Directory Caching
• Full Media Caching
• Set Management

Supports: DVD-R/CD-R, DVD-ROM/CD-ROM

CDs and DVDs have become a well-established storage media within the workplace. They are easily transported from one system to another and knowledge of their benefits has significantly increased. The CD/DVD Master product works across the network allowing both System Administrators and privileged clients to harness the power to manage more than just the standalone CD/DVD-R writer. With QStar's CD/DVD Master product, users get the ability to manage hundreds or thousands of CD/DVDs, with ease, through an intuitive GUI and advanced management tools. QStar's CD/DVD Master software combines all of the great features offered in the QStar CD/DVD Axxess product with the ability to intelligently write and group CD/DVD-R media within sets.

FEATURES: -
• Standards Based Formats
• Writing Options
• Automatic Media Assignment