Amplidata and QStar Partner

Amplidata and QStar Technologies announced a partnership to combine technologies and bring a joint solution to market that leverages Amplidata’s AmpliStor and QStar’s file and archive management platform. The joint solution will be introduced at IBC.

This two-way partnership will enable both companies to leverage each other’s technologies, as well as provide an opportunity to broadly market joint solutions created by their products. Amplidata’s customers will benefit from the joint solutions by enabling an access to Amplidata’s AmpliStor Optimized Object Storage platform through standard NAS protocols via the QStar file gateway. QStar’s customers will now have access to a scalable and self-managing Object Storage platform for enabling Petabyte-scale storage archives with a low cost of ownership.

QStar’s data management software also provides Amplidata customers with a set of capabilities to enable integration into a tiered storage environment, geographic data replication, and data retention and deletion policies. These capabilities enable solutions to be implemented on AmpliStor including archival solutions with automated policy-based data movement between tiers, disaster recovery with multiple geographically distributed sites, and long-term compliance solutions that enforce data retention and purging requirements.

Amplidata’s AmpliStor is a petabyte-scale Object Storage system for unstructured data applications. It provides high level of storage durability and availability at the low cost. AmpliStor features patent-pending technology that is optimized for where RAID fails, on multi-terabyte disk drives. The technology enables customers to build active archives that do not require backups and which are cost-efficient. By cutting the drive and power requirements by up to 70%, customers can expect up to 90% cost savings over traditional disk storage solutions.

"This partnership provides a tremendous opportunity for any company looking to economically store or archive large amounts of data, from media and entertainment to healthcare and other industries managing large unstructured data," said Riccardo Finotti, President and CEO of QStar Technologies. "When we looked closely at the technology from Amplidata, it was clear that with their BitSpread technology, they have introduced a next generation Object Storage solution, bringing significant advantages to the table over what is currently available."

"QStar is an ideal partner for Amplidata, as it provides us with a perfect front end for our solution and will significantly improve time to market, something our customers have been asking for," said Wim De Wispelaere, CEO of Amplidata. "This collaboration of technologies is truly symbiotic as it combines our leading-edge storage solution and preserves the natural way that people are accustomed to storing data, by using QStar’s CIFS / NFS archive gateway."