NEC Enterprise Solutions and QStar Partnering

NEC Enterprise Solutions and QStar Technologies, Inc. announced a strategic technology partnership in the area of managing, archiving and protecting enterprise data.

Resulting from this partnership, NEC’s HYDRAstor scale-out grid architecture can be combined with the QStar Network Migrator, a data policy ILM solution. Supported by QStar Archive Manager Software, users and administrators can view file shares and search, find and retrieve data directly from the archive.

Managing data growth is the number one concern of CIO’s
Managing data growth is the number one concern of CIO’s and IT directors, closely followed by ensuring proper backup and recovery. With enterprises generating content and data continuously and rapidly, the volume of information to be managed is growing exponentially. Over time however, the relevance and value for organizations and their business of these huge amounts of data changes considerably. Surveys by market research companies reveal that more than 80% of data on primary disks are never accessed after the first year. Meanwhile this data is constantly subject to backup and is even migrated within new storage over the years.

NEC’s HYDRAstor
HYDRAstor technology provides a performant, capacity-optimized and highly available storage solution for backup, long-term data archive and DR solutions for all enterprises. It can be further expanded and refreshed online with no data migration by incorporating newer generation hardware into the same grid system, maximizing investment protection.

“NEC continues to deliver new innovative solutions that leverage the HYDRAstor technology to maximize efficiency and performance for our customers” says Wali Naderi, product manager, NEC Enterprise Solutions.

“The partnership between NEC and QStar brings a new level of visibility, governance and value to company data. As a result customers get maximum value from their data using the NEC HYDRAstor scale-out storage platform combined with QStar Data Policy Network Migrator solution“, adds Raffaele Persico, EVP of operations, QStar.

For long-term data, HYDRAstor is a scale-out grid storage platform with inline deduplication, with massive linear scalability exceeding 158PB and 5PB/hour. It provides HA and has no single point of failure and data protection with erasure-coded data resiliency.

QStar offer a secure way to manage, store and optimize data based on its age and relevance for the business. Network Migrator enables the IT storage manager to classify data sets according to their relevance, rates access, and application requirements. It ensures interaction with applications by placing data on the HYDRAstor platform. If an application subsequently requests files that have been migrated to HYDRAstor, the Network Migrator solution moves the file back to the original device in real time, transparently to all applications, networks and users.

Optimized backup: reduce backup costs improving backup and recovery times
Storage tiering helps to reduce backup costs and improve backup and recovery times. Many organizations perform full backup of all of their data on frequent basis (weekly, monthly, and so on), even though most of it has not changed from previous backup. By moving inactive data to HYDRAstor, different backup policies can be established taking into account the age of the data. On top, thanks to its inline deduplication, HYDRAstor can also perform your daily backup and restore, but in a fraction of the time compared to its competitors.