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StorageQuest Anounces Public Avaliabliity for the StorageQuest Optical Network Appliance

Ottawa, ON Canada (PRWEB) March 27, 2012

StorageQuest Inc., a global leader in data and archive management software and hardware is pleased to announce the public availability of the StorageQuest Optical Network Appliance (ONA). The ONA is the first and only enterprise grade optical writing appliance.

This new hardware product provides high throughput archiving over the network to an array of four to twenty warm-swappable BD-XL (100GB) capable Blu-Ray drives. The device is able to provide network based iSCSI connectivity to the included StorageQuest Optical Volume Manager (OVM) software and allow concurrent read/write access to up to eight discs in parallel.

StorageQuest has released four models of the ONA to satisfy the needs of different environments. All models have an LCD + Keypad for setup and management and warm-swappable optical drive bays for no-downtime drive replacements and upgrades.

The desktop models ONA-D-4 and ONA-D-8 are pre-loaded with 4 and 8 drives (respectively). The desktop units are whisper quiet and intended for medium archive throughput and mobile sites. The rack mount model (ONA-R-12 and ONA-R-20) are pre-loaded with 12 and 20 drives (respectively) and is intended for high-throughput archiving applications. The rack mount version also contains redundant power supplies. Pricing from $8,995 USD includes the OVM management software.

“The newly announced Optical Network Appliance is a powerful and complete optical archiving system,” says Brendan Lelieveld-Amiro, Director of Product Development and Operations. “It is perfect for customers that do not require near-line storage capacity but do demand high-throughput archiving to long-term compliant Blu-Ray media.”

“The desktop model is ideal for addressing the need for portable optical archiving, especially in law enforcement and security sectors,” according to Marwan Zyad, CEO and Founder of StorageQuest Inc.

A video surveillance archival solution including StorageQuest ONA, StorageQuest OVM and Milestone XProtect software will be demonstrated at the Milestone Systems Booth #11075 at the upcoming International Security Conference (ISC West) being held in Las Vegas, Nevada from March 28th to March 30th, 2012.

About StorageQuest Inc.
Since its inception in 1998, StorageQuest has pioneered data archiving management software and hardware technology, open solutions that continue to drive the evolution of data storage. StorageQuest storage solutions include network attached appliances, storage management software and services providing seamless storage management for open network environments. StorageQuest, Inc. is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. For more information visit https://storagequest.com, email sales(at)storagequest(dot)com or phone             (613) 235-3619

About Milestone Systems
Founded in 1998, Milestone Systems is the global industry leader in open platform IP video management software, according to IMS Research. The XProtect® platform delivers powerful surveillance that is easy to manage, reliable and proven in thousands of customer installations around the world. With support for the widest choice in network hardware and integration with other systems, XProtect provides best-in-class solutions to video enable organizations – managing risks, protecting people and assets, optimizing processes and reducing costs. Milestone software is sold through authorized and certified partners. For more information, visit: http://www.milestonesys.com

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StorageQuest Powers Organizations to Achieve Compliance and Cost Goals for Data Storage

Organizations which have committed to or are currently considering a compliance solution, should consider that contrary to the compliance claims by certain storage manufacturers in the market place, StorageQuest affirms complete compliance. With well over two thousand installations in the U.S. at Law Enforcement agencies, and other private and government agencies, StorageQuest believes that their compliance claim has been validated many times. Because some compliance solutions are hard drive-based, organizations could be mistakenly placing themselves at great risk. SOX states: That it is a crime for “any person to corruptly alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal any document with the intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding or to otherwise obstruct, influence or impede any official proceeding…” But what may not be as well known is that even honest mistakes can get organizations into some serious liability troubles. Adding to that, many vendors want to lock organizations in with proprietary data formats which conflict with the portability rules.
Therefore, organizations must choose an Archival System that meets with these requirements and seamlessly and non-disruptively scale in terms of terabytes (and possibly, petabytes) depending on the size of the enterprise, and the number and nature of its transactions. Network attached optical storage is ideally suited to meet all the portability and transparency requirements for archival storage established under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
StorageQuest’s archival solutions not only protect organizations from non-compliance hazards, but their solution has one of the lowest costs of ownerships combined with very low initial startup costs.
Don’t just make decisions because it happens to currently be the way it’s done. Change does mean cost savings.
For more useful information, see https://storagequest.com/ourproducts/storagequest-archive-manager-2/ and https://storagequest.com/application-solutions/sarbanes-oxley/

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StorageQuest Flash Storage Appliance

Ottawa, ON Canada May 8, 2013

StorageQuest Inc., a global leader in data and archive management software and hardware is pleased to announce the public availability of the StorageQuest Flash Storage Appliance (FSA).

The FSA is the first and only device of its kind available in the market.
This new hardware product provides high throughput storing and retrieval over the network to an array of sixteen removable Compact Flash chips. The device is able to provide network based iSCSI connectivity to host systems and allows concurrent read/write access to each individual Compact Flash. The FSA device features an LCD + Keypad for setup and management.
Capacities ranging from 1GB to 256GB per Compact Flash for a total online capacity of 4TB.

Each device includes an optional copy of the popular StorageQuest Archive Manager (SAM) Software. SAM allows users and applications to group multiple remote Compact Flash chips together for even greater capacity. SAM also includes advanced features such as Read and Write Caching, Remote Replication (Cloud, RAID, Optical Libraries or even additional Compact Flash mediums). All Compact Flash chips are tracked and catalogued automatically as they are removed from the FSA.

Pricing from $7,995 USD MSRP for hardware and software

“This new product leverages the popularity, availability and price of industry standard Compact Flash media and transforms it into a portable archival and retrieval storage system” according to Brendan Lelieveld-Amiro, Director of Product Development. “It’s current application lends itself well to the Security and Intelligence communities looking for portable, automated long term archiving of evidence data”

“Our mission is to provide our clients a variety of scalable hardware and software storage technology options, that fit their particular needs, for long term archiving” said the President and CEO of StorageQuest, Marwan Zayed.

StoragQuest customers include Law Enforcement, Government Security and Intelligence, Aerospace, Medical & Broadcasting.

The flagship StorageQuest Archive Manager software supports the following technologies:
IBM Tape Libraries – TS3100 & TS3200, DISC & HIT Optical Libraries, Imation A-8 RDX, StorageQuest Optical Network Appliance, and StorageQuest Flash Storage Appliance.

About StorageQuest Inc.
Since its inception in 1998, StorageQuest has pioneered data archiving management software and hardware technology, open solutions that continue to drive the evolution of data storage. StorageQuest storage solutions include network attached appliances, storage management software and services providing seamless storage management for open network environments.

StorageQuest, Inc. is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. For more information visit https://storagequest.com, email sales@storagequest.  com or phone 613) 235-3619

StorageQuest Flash Storage Appliance

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StorageQuest Flash Storage Appliance

Ottawa, ON Canada May 8, 2013

StorageQuest Inc., a global leader in data and archive management software and hardware is pleased to announce the public availability of the StorageQuest Flash Storage Appliance (FSA).

The FSA is the first and only device of its kind available in the market.
This new hardware product provides high throughput storing and retrieval over the network to an array of sixteen removable Compact Flash chips. The device is able to provide network based iSCSI connectivity to host systems and allows concurrent read/write access to each individual Compact Flash. The FSA device features an LCD + Keypad for setup and management.
Capacities ranging from 1GB to 256GB per Compact Flash for a total online capacity of 4TB.

Each device includes an optional copy of the popular StorageQuest Archive Manager (SAM) Software. SAM allows users and applications to group multiple remote Compact Flash chips together for even greater capacity. SAM also includes advanced features such as Read and Write Caching, Remote Replication (Cloud, RAID, Optical Libraries or even additional Compact Flash mediums). All Compact Flash chips are tracked and catalogued automatically as they are removed from the FSA.

Pricing from $7,995 USD MSRP for hardware and software

“This new product leverages the popularity, availability and price of industry standard Compact Flash media and transforms it into a portable archival and retrieval storage system” according to Brendan Lelieveld-Amiro, Director of Product Development. “It’s current application lends itself well to the Security and Intelligence communities looking for portable, automated long term archiving of evidence data”

“Our mission is to provide our clients a variety of scalable hardware and software storage technology options, that fit their particular needs, for long term archiving” said the President and CEO of StorageQuest, Marwan Zayed.

StoragQuest customers include Law Enforcement, Government Security and Intelligence, Aerospace, Medical & Broadcasting.

The flagship StorageQuest Archive Manager software supports the following technologies:
IBM Tape Libraries – TS3100 & TS3200, DISC & HIT Optical Libraries, Imation A-8 RDX, StorageQuest Optical Network Appliance, and StorageQuest Flash Storage Appliance.

About StorageQuest Inc.
Since its inception in 1998, StorageQuest has pioneered data archiving management software and hardware technology, open solutions that continue to drive the evolution of data storage. StorageQuest storage solutions include network attached appliances, storage management software and services providing seamless storage management for open network environments. StorageQuest, Inc. is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. For more information visit https://storagequest.com, email sales(at)storagequest(dot)com or phone (613) 235-3619StorageQuest Flash Storage Appliance

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StorageQuest Archive Manager 4.0 – Now Supporting IBM Tape Libraries

StorageQuest Inc., a global leader in data and archive management software and hardware is pleased to announce the public availability of the StorageQuest Archive Manager (SAM). Formerly known as the Optical Volume Manager (OVM), the StorageQuest Archive Manager now supports IBM Tape Libraries and LTFS volume spanning providing a powerful high capacity archival solution

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada  February 26, 2013

StorageQuest Inc., a global leader in data and archive management software and hardware is pleased to announce the public availability of the StorageQuest Archive Manager (SAM). Formerly known as the Optical Volume Manager (OVM), the StorageQuest Archive Manager now supports IBM Tape Libraries and LTFS volume spanning providing a
powerful high capacity archival solution.

StorageQuest Archive Manager 4.0 provides automated management and archiving of data to IBM Tape Libraries using volume spanning across multiple LTO media. The software creates a virtual drive letter for each of the IBM tape libraries connected to a network allowing users to create virtual volumes representing one or many tape cartridges in one or multiple IBM tape libraries. Virtual drive letters allow users to simply drag and drop important files and folders from local hard drives or networks to the IBM tape library. Alternatively, the “SAM” sync feature allows specified folder locations on the network or a local server to be monitored and new files will automatically write to the IBM tape library in the background. Software applications can access this drive letter as the IBM tape library appears as a regular hard drive.SAM IBM Overview

With the use of the SAM, long term archiving is now possible with the IBM Tape Library. Powerful search capability and Off-Line Media tracking lets users know exactly which cartridge contains data that may have been removed from the library.

The IBM developed LTFS is an open format file system and the tapes written can be read back in virtually any LTO drive and without any third-party software regardless of the manufacturer.

“We are excited to add IBM Tape Library support to our portfolio of supported storage technologies,” says Brendan Lelieveld-Amiro, Director Product Development. “Coupled with our SAM Software, this solution will be an excellent fit for some of our most demanding installations.”

StorageQuest support for tape library systems is an add-on to a long list of supported devices to serve a wider client base. It provides the most economical solution to large corporations with ever increasing needs of online, near-line and offline storage,” says President and CEO, Marwan Zayed.

StorageQuest Archive Manager Software can be used with all archive storage technologies such as tape, optical and RDX.

About StorageQuest Inc.

Since its inception in 1998, StorageQuest has pioneered data archiving management software and hardware technology, open solutions that continue to drive the evolution of data storage. StorageQuest storage solutions include network attached appliances, storage management software and services providing seamless storage management for open network environments. StorageQuest, Inc. is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. For more information visit https://storagequest.com, email sales(at)storagequest(dot)com or phone (613) 235-3619

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StorageQuest Optical Volume Manager Supports Milestone XProtect Video Surveillance Software For Long Term Optical Archiving

Ottawa, ON, Canada March 20, 2012

StorageQuest Inc., a global leader in data and archive management software and hardware is pleased to announce its ecosystem partnership with the global leader in IP Video Surveillance software Milestone Systems Inc.

The StorageQuest Optical Volume Manager (OVM) is the certified long term archive add-on application for the Milestone XProtect Corporate Video Surveillance application.

StorageQuest’s OVM, along with Milestone’s XProtect application coupled with a DISC Archiving Systems Blu-Ray library or StorageQuest’s Optical Network Appliance offers a fully automated long term video archive solution.

The StorageQuest OVM application writes video archive data in the background to optical media through robotic or non-robotic optical libraries. Video Footage is automatically spanned over as many discs as necessary without any user intervention.

Milestone XProtect Smart Client viewer is able to automatically pull the data from the configured archive location for playback of archived video data. Targeted video footage may also be written to unique Blu-Ray volumes using the Milestone XProtect export feature.

“Demand for video surveillance is increasing at an unprecedented rate”

“Demand for video surveillance is increasing at an unprecedented rate. Compliance and Regulations often dictate data to be retained for long periods of time. We work within industries such as government, retail, transportation, finance, gaming and healthcare to ensure our customers long term video archival needs are met” said Brendan Lelieveld-Amiro, Director of Product Development and Operations.

Video Archival Solution with StorageQuest’s OVM will be demonstrated at the Milestone Systems Booth #11075 at the upcoming International Security Conference (ISC West) being held in Las Vegas, Nevada from March 28th to March 30th, 2012.

About StorageQuest Inc.
Since its inception in 1998, StorageQuest has pioneered data archiving management software and hardware technology, open solutions that continue to drive the evolution of data storage. StorageQuest storage solutions include network attached appliances, storage management software and services providing seamless storage management for open network environments. StorageQuest, Inc. is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. For more information visit https://storagequest.com, email [email protected] or phone (613) 235-3619

About Milestone Systems
Founded in 1998, Milestone Systems is the global industry leader in open platform IP video management software, according to IMS Research. The XProtect® platform delivers powerful surveillance that is easy to manage, reliable and proven in thousands of customer installations around the world. With support for the widest choice in network hardware and integration with other systems, XProtect provides best-in-class solutions to video enable organizations – managing risks, protecting people and assets, optimizing processes and reducing costs. Milestone software is sold through authorized and certified partners. For more information, visit: http://www.milestonesys.com