Founded in 1987, QStar Technologies is a leading global provider of enterprise-class archive and data management software solutions. QStar software is a key element in creating ‘Active Archive’ solutions. The software virtualizes archive technology behind a file system, making the entire archive appear as NAS disk. Users and applications can easily search and retrieve data directly from the archive. Even offline media is efficiently tracked for simple retrieval. QStar is leading the industry with a vision for the 3-2-1 Archiving and Data Protection Best Practice. This independent framework provides a strong and practical foundation to build a resilient archive strategy in combination with QStar software solutions. QStar’s archive philosophy is reflected in the architecture of its software. Designed to be vendor neutral, users are not locked into vendor specific server and archive storage hardware. In addition, they have the choice of using QStar's optimized proprietary or industry standard files systems, such as LTFS (for tape) or UDF (for optical). The modular platform supports incremental capacity expansion from terabytes to petabytes, and offers a variety of archive disaster protection features such as tape copy, replication and real-time mirroring. This approach gives QStar customers a long-term data archive strategy with the agility they need to evolve in changing market and financial conditions