QStar Technologies Inc
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QStar Technologies was founded in 1987 in Bethesda, Maryland
by Brian Swafford. Initially designed to support large format optical drives on the SunOS
platform, Qstar Technologies produce an array of software and hardware for storage management solutions on 19 different operating systems, Windows, Linux, UNIX and Mac.
QStar’s European headquarters was established in Milan
, Italy
in 1994. The company's corporate headquarters is located in Mary Esther, Florida
. Today QStar is represented around the world through a network of distributors and resellers.
QStar works to develop storage management software that brings relevance and intelligence to the storage device. They have also expanded into hardware solutions to meet specific application needs.
QStar's products include:
Bethesda, Maryland
Bethesda is a census designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, just northwest of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a local church, the Bethesda Meeting House , which in turn took its name from Jerusalem's Pool of Bethesda...
by Brian Swafford. Initially designed to support large format optical drives on the SunOS
SunOS
SunOS is a version of the Unix operating system developed by Sun Microsystems for their workstation and server computer systems. The SunOS name is usually only used to refer to versions 1.0 to 4.1.4 of SunOS...
platform, Qstar Technologies produce an array of software and hardware for storage management solutions on 19 different operating systems, Windows, Linux, UNIX and Mac.
QStar’s European headquarters was established in Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
in 1994. The company's corporate headquarters is located in Mary Esther, Florida
Mary Esther, Florida
Mary Esther is a city in Okaloosa County, Florida, United States. The population was 4,055 at the 2000 census. As of 2004, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 4,115...
. Today QStar is represented around the world through a network of distributors and resellers.
QStar works to develop storage management software that brings relevance and intelligence to the storage device. They have also expanded into hardware solutions to meet specific application needs.
QStar's products include:
- HSM -- TertiaryTertiaryThe Tertiary is a deprecated term for a geologic period 65 million to 2.6 million years ago. The Tertiary covered the time span between the superseded Secondary period and the Quaternary...
Archive software to manage tapeCompact CassetteThe Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...
and optical storage libraries - Data Director -- block-based replicationReplication (computer science)Replication is the process of sharing information so as to ensure consistency between redundant resources, such as software or hardware components, to improve reliability, fault-tolerance, or accessibility. It could be data replication if the same data is stored on multiple storage devices, or...
for archive storage - Simulated Disk and Simulated Tape Jukebox -- Virtual Optical and Tape library software to run on RAID hardware
- Network Migrator -- Server and Client side automated tiered storageAutomated Tiered StorageAutomated Tiered Storage is the automated progression or demotion of data across different tiers of storage devices and media. This movement of data is automatic to the different types of disk according to performance and capacity requirements....
data migration - Master and Axxess -- TertiaryTertiaryThe Tertiary is a deprecated term for a geologic period 65 million to 2.6 million years ago. The Tertiary covered the time span between the superseded Secondary period and the Quaternary...
Archive software to manage CD and DVDDVDA DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
storage libraries - SntryStr – Archive Storage Appliance
- SntryML – Email Archive Storage Appliance
- SntryVTL - Virtual Tape LibraryVirtual Tape LibraryA virtual tape library is a data storage virtualization technology used typically for backup and recovery purposes. A VTL presents a storage component as tape libraries or tape drives for use with existing backup software.Virtualizing the disk storage as tape allows integration of VTLs with...
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