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IT RESELLER - December 2001
Data Archive Mirroring
for Windows NT/2000
QStar Technologies has announced the availability of its much awaited Real-Time Jukebox Mirroring product, QStar Data Director, for the Microsoft Windows NT/2000 platform. QStar Data Director for Windows is a direct port of an already established product that has been shipping for Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Irix, Tru-64 and Linux.
Alec Packham, sales Manager, QStar Europe, said: "We have seen a growing demand from users for our real-time mirroring functionality to be made available for the Windows platform. We can now deliver secure, redundant, on-line archival solutions to satisfy this demand."
Deploying on-line archival storage has a great number of benefits for many organizations. The volume of data referred to as 'live' within a company is normally a small percentage of the total stored. By 'archiving' the inactive data to secure, cost effective, on-line optical jukeboxes, the cost of ownership of the data is significantly reduced, the continual acquisition of magnetic drives is reined back and the back-up window ceases to grow ever larger. Furthermore, with, QStar, the data is still available on the network for access.
QStar provide transparent software solutions to support Optical and DVD-RAM jukeboxes that allow on-line access to archive data. QStar's Data Director takes the on-line archive solution a step further by configuring a redundant archive. With data written simultaneously to multiple jukeboxes across either a local or wide area network, there is a guarantee of data availability. QStar mirroring delivers a high performance and economical method of maintaining host standby data storage whilst minimising the vulnerability of data loss.
Any organization that needs to securely store information to meet legal or regulatory requirements, wishes to scan and archive incoming paperwork or just needs to manage their data more efficiently can benefits from the advantages that secure optical jukebox storage gives.
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