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Users and Applications save, search, find and retrieve data directly from archive
Virtualizes, slices, transforms and disperses data to the storage nodes
QStar and Cleversafe Object-based Dispersed Storage System
Disk Cache
CIFS or NFS
Multi-Site Deployment
Accesser®
data routers
Object-based Dispersed Storage System
Archive ManagerCIFS / NFS Gateway
NETWORK
Optional
Network MigratorPolicy-Based Tiered Storageand Data Lifecycle Manager
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A Combined Solution from QStar Technologies and Cleversafe addresses Big Data needs and Delivers Compelling Business Benefits.
Solution Highlights
• Limitless Scalability with no System Disruption or Production Outage
• Use of CIFS/NFS Standard Network Protocols Allow Simple Access to Data Assets
• Long-Term Reliable Data Preservation with PerfectBits Data Integrity
• 100 Million times more Reliable than RAID
• Drives up to 90% of the Storage Costs Out of the Organization
• Self-Managing, Self-Healing Storage Nodes
• QStar Gateway Software Available for Windows, Linux, UNIX or Mac Environments
Using industry leading technology designed to manage large content repositories and digital data archives, QStar Technologies and Cleversafe optimize the ingestion and storage of this valuable content, while providing standardized access over NAS file protocols. This enables a familiar and convenient way to store, access and manage large-scale data in an online manner.
QStar Archive Manager software can be installed into existing data center environments creating a gateway to the Cleversafe object-based dispersed storage system utilizing standard CIFS or NFS network protocols. Users and administrators can easily – actively - store, search and retrieve data within the archive.
Finally, there’s a smarter and more cost-effective way to access, protect and preserve valuable digital data assets.
Cleversafe’s object-based storage solution is secure, reliable, scalable and cost-effective, helping you reduce storage costs up to 90% while meeting compliance requirements with peace of mind. Reliable features ensure you’re protected, for the long-term, against data loss, whether it’s latent hardware errors, data corruption or malicious threats.
With three levels of integrity checking, you’re guaranteed bit-perfect data delivery and preservation. PerfectBits™ integrity employs an intelligent background process that scans storage nodes, checking for and correcting errors. Offensive error correction is crucial to keep your long-term archive healthy archive healthy and highly available.
Typical QStar and Cleversafe deployments span multiple data centers. Cleversafe’s object-based dispersed storage approach provides better storage efficiency than traditional RAID and replication. Cleversafe virtualizes, slices, transforms and disperses data using Information Dispersal Algo-rithms, and distributes the slices to separate disks, storage nodes and geographic locations. Even with individual servers or entire sites down, the solution delivers real time bit perfect data retrieval from a subset of the data slices. With your active archive distributed across multiple off-site locations, you’re protected against a single location failure or catastrophe.
QStar and Cleversafe Address Big Data Storage Needs
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QStar Technologies, Inc.8738 Ortega Park Drive Navarre, FL 32566Phone: 850 243 [email protected]
QStar Technologies EuropeViale Italia, 12 - 20094Corsico - Milano (Italy)Phone: +39 02 451 711Fax: +39 02 451 [email protected] www.qstar.com
Cleversafe Headquarters222 South Riverside Plaza Suite 1700Chicago, IL 60606 USAPhone: +1 312 423-6640 Fax: +1 312 [email protected]
Cleversafe’s dsNet storage system is a breakthrough technology that delivers limitless data storage to solve big data storage problems. Cleversafe’s unique Dispersed Storage™ software technology provides a fundamentally new approach to data storage that virtualizes data itself. This solution drives up to 90% of the storage costs out of the business while enabling secure and reliable global access and collaboration. Many of the world’s largest data repositories rely on Cleversafe to future-proof their big data storage. This patented object-based storage solution leverages information dispersal algorithms (IDA) coupled with encryption to virtualize, slice, scramble and disperse data across a network of storage nodes. As a result, Cleversafe delivers extremely high degrees of data reliability and availability without the data redundancy and associated incremental costs found in traditional RAID and replication methods; making it cost-effectively scalable to the Exabyte level and beyond. Cleversafe’s slice-and-disperse technology delivers significantly higher levels of confidentiality, data integrity and information availability than alternative architectures. Since only a predefined threshold of slices is needed to retrieve the data, individual servers or entire locations can be down—and data can still be accessed. And because data is sliced and transformed, the data is inherently private and secure. In fact, access to individual slices doesn’t compromise the original content. And only data owners are in control of reassembling data. Cleversafe’s cost-effective storage system operates at the infrastructure layer to capture, store and deliver unstructured data to enable data management and analytic applications to efficiently process big data, thereby delivering intelligence to the organization. Coupled with QStar’s Archive Manager platform, customers enjoy the flexibility of connecting to their existing applications using traditional NAS protocols such as CIFS or NFS. Typical Cleversafe deployments span multiple data centers. With data distributed across multiple offsite locations, the data is protected against a single location failure or even what used to be considered a catastrophic event in which multiple locations incur failures. Finally, there’s a smarter and more cost-effective way to protect and preserve digital archive assets. Additionally, Cleversafe is able to ensure that the data is preserved and securely accessible for long-term retention. So now data can be stored forever and with Cleversafe, the data is capable of surviving any incident, including server failure, malicious attack, administrator negligence or site disaster. Your digital content isn’t tied to a specific server or storage device or location and in support of ever-increasing storage demands; the data is automatically reconstituted as new storage nodes are installed into the system.
QStar Archive Manager software offers performance and cost flexibility with unlimited scalability. The software can be easily integrated with an organizations network environment and can be installed on servers using a range of operating systems, including Windows, UNIX, Linux or Mac OSX. It integrates seamlessly with popular digital asset management and media asset management systems, providing simple access to Cleversafe, without API support.
QStar’s Archive Manager software creates a file gateway for Cleversafe to provide a quick and easy method of archiving any file-based archive content. The software presents the archive as a network share or mount point. Using standard network protocols such as CIFS or NFS, creative users, editors and administrators can easily store, search and retrieve data within the archive.
In addition, completed digital content from production, post-production, mastering, transcoding or distribution, can be archived, freeing up capacity on primary storage for new content. QStar software then uses Cleversafe REST API to move content across the LAN, WAN, into the Cleversafe dsNet Object-based Storage System, transparent to applications.
QStar software allows retention periods to be set, converting data into a secure read-only format for a set period of time. Data can be automatically removed at the end of this period, allowing the re-use of the freed archive capacity. Multiple retention periods can be created to support different data sets to meet varying business needs. Additionally, QStar software can independently replicate data to multiple sites and to other archive technologies.
For digital content already stored on SAN or NAS primary disk systems, organizations can create policies using QStar Network Migrator software, which automatically migrates content to QStar Archive Manager, and then to the Cleversafe object-based dispersed storage system.
