QStar Archive Manager Software Supporting LTFS

QStar Technologies, Inc., provider of enterprise data management and archive software, announced  support of LTFS across all compatible tape drives and libraries.  

With QStar Archive Manager software adding support for the enterprise IBM TS1140 tape drive, this now completes the list of LTFS-based tape drives and libraries.

Resellers have full flexibility to supply any tape library they wish and, with QStar, to leverage the new tape industry standard format, LTFS, as they choose.
 
LTFS offers organisations media portability and long-term accessibility to archive data. The latest addition to QStar’s LTFS-tape compatibility list, the TS1140 drive, offers a larger capacity and faster transfer rate than LTO-6, with a native capacity of 4TB and sustained transfer rates of 250MB/s. QStar Archive Manager now supports all tape drives and libraries that can currently use LTFS as their archive tape file system, adding  TS1140-based libraries from IBM and Spectra Logic, to all libraries using T10000C drives from Oracle, as well as LTO-5 and LTO-6 drives from IBM, HP and Quantum.
 
"A key advantage of QStar Archive Manager software is its flexibility to support many archive technologies from all leading vendors, making our archiving solutions truly vendor and technology neutral," said Riccardo Finotti, president and CEO for QStar. "We now support all currently shipping tape formats, with our own optimised archive file system and with LTFS. Interest in LTFS is growing rapidly in many vertical markets beyond just media and entertainment, and our commitment to our customers is to provide multiple choices. We also support optical, RDX, disk, object storage and cloud technologies, often combining multiple technologies to meet specific user and application requirements for performance and data security."
 
"QStar’s LTFS volume-spanning methodology allows LTFS to be leveraged in all markets and now for all tape libraries using LTO-5, LTO-6, TS1140 or T10000C drives. LTFS can be combined with encryption technology to protect customer data assets without affecting the portability and data ingestion of this media at other sites, potentially using other LTFS archive applications," said Eric Slack, senior analyst for Storage Switzerland.
 
Archive Manager software can be installed on a Windows or Linux server and virtualises any tape library behind a NAS-like disk cache, allowing a connection through CIFS and NFS.
 
Archive Manager and other archiving software solutions fare available from a network of storage VARrs.  QStar offers a free 30-day trial license for Archive Manager, to allow users to test before purchasing.  Archive Manager is priced on a tape library capacity model. Offline or secondary copies are stored without cost.