SOFTWARE DEFINING SECONDARY STORAGE

About QoreStore Quest® QoreStor™ is a software-defined secondary storage platform used to accelerate backups, reduce storage requirements and costs through deduplication, and replicate data safely and securely to the cloud for archiving and disaster recovery. Quest QoreStor—Software Defined Secondary Storage Quest QoreStor is one of the few Software Defined Secondary Storage solutions on the market. Organizations or service providers can create their own hardware appliances, supplying their servers with storage capacity. They can also run the software as a virtual machine, making deployment in remote offices simpler and less expensive, and because the solution is softwareonly, it can run in the cloud. QoreStor can be installed on a single node (or VM) and scale-out to meet the capacity and performance demands of the data center. It supports source-side deduplication and Quest provides optimized SMB and NFS protocols to improve backup up performance while maintaining a high level of compatibility. The solution is backup software agnostic. It doesn’t force the organization into another new backup application. The robust list of supported applications includes all the major data protection solutions as well as native backup utilities included with applications like MS-SQL. QoreStor can replicate from any instance to another, it leverages deduplication during the transfers and Quest offers a unique SecureConnect WAN Technology for easier, more secure site interconnects. All data is encrypted both in-flight and at-rest. The replication instances also include the cloud.QoreStor today supports instantiating instances of itself in both Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS. IT can leverage the cloud version of QoreStor either as a disaster recovery target or as a location to archive old backup data, limiting the growth of the on-premises data store. StorageSwiss Take: The hardware nature of secondary storage solutions is curious. While performance and reliability are essential in these environments, it is not as critical as in production. It seems a natural market for a software solution that can leverage existing hardware and former production hardware. With the replication capabilities, the software solution overcomes the reliability concerns of using older hardware, but because it is software leveraging older hardware, it is significantly less costly to deploy. For organizations with plenty of servers and storage, organizations with strong relationships with server vendors, or organizations with many remote sites, QoreStor makes a compelling case to be the secondary storage platform of choice.