QStar Technologies Inc
QStar Technologies was founded in 1987 in Bethesda, Maryland by Brian Swafford. In the beginning, Brian was asked to support large format optical drives on the SunOS platform. This gave him the idea to create an intelligent storage management solution. Subsequently, QStar Technologies was born.
With the explosion of mass storage technology and the company's continued commitment to excellence, QStar Technologies rose to number four on the Washington Technologies 1993 FAST 50 list.
QStar’s European headquarters was established in Milan, Italy in 1994. The company continued its expansion in 1995 by relocating its corporate headquarters from the Washington DC area to beautiful Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Situated in the heart of Florida's "Emerald Coast", employees and visitors enjoy an exciting and stimulating work environment in one of the United States’ growing regions for technology-based industries. Continuing the corporate expansion and world wide presence, in 1996 an office in England was opened. Today QStar is represented around the world through a strong network of distributors and resellers.
Following a tragic accident, Brian passed away in 1999.
The company has continued to persevere and has succeeded in the name of his legacy following the same ethics of quality that he originally instilled in the company, both in the construction of the software that he originally crafted himself and in the development of relationships where customers were always the highest priority.
Two decades of experience and a large install base have provided QStar with the knowledge to make intelligent software with the ability to bring life to storage hardware. The functionality of QStar software is based on extensive feedback from resellers and their requirements and customer feedback which has driven QStar to develop top-of-the-line storage management software that brings relevance and intelligence to the storage device.
Beginning with SunOS, the first operating system ported, QStar now supports 18 operating systems including versions of Windows, Unix and Linux, which is unique to the storage management industry.
As QStar grew, the functionality of its software, the company also ported new hardware technologies as they evolved to meet application needs. QStar software features and new storage technologies such as disk, tape and optical have combined to give you more storage choices than ever before. Traditional concepts of fixed magnetic disks for online storage and a warehouse full of magnetic backup tapes no longer apply. Your ability to effectively embrace the new storage technologies lies within the software that powers them.
QStar's products include:
- HSM -- Tertiary Archive software to manage tape and optical storage libraries
- Master and Axxess -- Tertiary Archive software to manage CD and DVD storage libraries
- Data Director -- block-based replication for archive storage
- Simulated Disk and Simulated Tape Jukebox -- Virtual Optical and Tape library software to run on RAID hardware
- Network Migrator -- Client side automated tiered storage data migration
- MultiStor -- Server side automated tiered storage data migration
- SntryStr – Archive Storage Appliance
- SntryML – Email Archive Storage Appliance
- SntryVTL - Virtual Tape Library Disaster Prevention Appliance