Quest: QoreStor Software-Defined Secondary Storage Platform

Quest Software, Inc. announced the availability of QoreStor, a software-defined secondary storage platform with enterprise compression and deduplication technology that is backup vendor agnostic.

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QoreStor is designed to help organizations accelerate backup performance, reduce storage requirements and costs by a factor of 20:1, as well as enable faster and safer cloud replication for data archiving, DR and BC. With QoreStor, businesses can address compliance requirements and benefit from an always-on, always-available IT environment to support their organizations’ digital transformations to better serve their customers.

“We understand better than anyone that rising storage requirements and costs, combined with slow backup and replication, are major impediments to BC,” said Mark D’Apice, executive director, R&D and product management, data protection, Quest. “QoreStor tackles these challenges by delivering the secure and reliable deduplication and replication capabilities IT teams need to keep their business up and running while minimizing storage costs and maximizing backup performance.“

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Faster backups, lower storage costs to support digital enterprise
The continuous availability of applications and data is more important than ever to support today’s digital enterprise. In fact, just one hour of downtime costs most businesses anywhere from $200,000 to $5 million, according to a recent study by Statista. However, as data continues to grow exponentially, businesses are challenged by slow backups and rising storage costs, making rock-solid backup, recovery and BC exceedingly difficult.

QoreStor leverages the company’s DR Series of enterprise deduplication and replication technologies with a software-defined delivery model that is easy to deploy and manage. With QoreStor’s hardware and software agnostic platform, IT organizations can add deduplication and replication to their existing applications, reducing storage requirements and costs by leveraging existing technology investments. The platform supports a range of backup and storage solutions from vendors including Quest, Commvault, Dell EMC, Veritas, Veeam and IBM. Additionally, it supports virtualization platforms and cloud service providers, including Azure, Amazon Web Services, VMWare, Hyper-V and KVM.

QoreStor also has a cloud portal, designed to give any customer or MSP the ability to manage all instances of QoreStor from any location and from any device. It features built in support capabilities that enhance any needed support requests.

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“As a strategic partner for Quest, we’re excited about the release of QoreStor and the opportunity it brings to fill a market opportunity in Latin America with an enterprise solution that helps organizations adopt the cloud while complying with their existing data recovery practices,” said M.C.S. Queberth Soto, CTO, Adistec Corp. “We look forward to helping organizations replicate data to our datacenters in-country to make their business more resilient.“

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QoreStor key features and functionality:

• Next-generation storage de-dupe engine: Lowers backup storage capacity requirements by up to 20:1 and helps organizations take advantage of enterprise variable-block deduplication.

• Built-in protocol accelerators: Write operations with optimized client-side deduplication accelerate data ingest by up to twenty terabytes per hour to address ever-shrinking backup windows. Only unique data chunks are sent to QoreStor.

• Remote replication for DR: Businesses have the benefit of replicating only changed data to a remote site, reducing replication windows by up to ten to 15 times and reducing network bandwidth requirements by up to 85%.

• Direct cloud backup: Source-side deduplication where only changes are transmitted allows organizations to backup directly to the cloud over a WAN but with LAN-like speeds. QoreStor also enables RPOs on par with on-premises deployments – even over a WAN.

• Secure connect: Eliminates incomplete backups due to disconnected links by automatically continuing a backup once the connection is re-established. Additionally, all data sent across the WAN is encrypted.

• Data security: Built-in encryption at rest, secure erase and FIPS 140-2 compliance help businesses address demanding security requirements. Encryption at rest uses industry-standard 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard keys, which are generated either one time or at set intervals.

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