Certification of QStar Archive Manager Software

Imation Corp. and QStar Technologies, Inc. announced certification of QStar Archive Manager software with Imation’s RDX A8 Hard Disk Storage Library, delivering active archive solutions for SMBs.

The solution, part of Imation’s scalable storage portfolio, will be showcased 6-10 March at Imation booth at CeBIT 2012 in Hannover, Germany.

RDX A8 Hard Disk Storage Library offers up to 8 terabytes of online capacity with unlimited offline capacity for scalability. The solution also ensures performance of data-intensive business operations, delivering the scalability, portability and cost of tape, with the speed and durability of disk. The multi-bay Imation RDX A8 makes this technology a choice for managing large volumes of data, and the iSCSI network connection enables integration into existing infrastructures. The forward and backward compatibility of RDX standard technology provides investment protection for SMBs.

"QStar Archive Manager software provides a flexible open interface that can be installed on servers using a range of operating systems including Windows, Linux, UNIX or Mac," said Patrick Bertschat, Product Marketing Manager, Scalable Storage, Imation Europe. "QStar software virtualizes the RDX A8 Hard Disk Storage Library, allowing users to see the archive as a file share or mount point. This enables users to efficiently search and retrieve data directly from the archive. Multiple media can be seen as a single share including media that has been removed from the library and is offline."

In addition to QStar Archive Manager software, QStar Archive Replicator software can be used to replicate data to off-site archives with a second archive store using RDX making it for disaster recovery because it further protects and preserves an organization’s digital assets.

"QStar is pleased to expand our long-standing endorsement of Imation media products to now include support for Imation’s RDX A8 solution," said Dave Thomson, senior vice president of sales and marketing for QStar Technologies. "RDX is an ideal technology for archiving. It provides fast random access to any file, like disk, and is also cost-effective, as it can be removed to facilitate infinite archive expansion and create disaster recovery copies."

Imation direct attach RDX and LTO Libraries are also QStar certified.

RDX A8 Hard Disk Storage Library is available at authorized Imation value-added resellers.