DISC Archiving Systems Supports StorageQuest Archive Manager Software

DISC Archiving Systems Inc. announces the software support of StorageQuest, Inc.‘s Archive Manager (SAM) for the new DISC ArXtor Series.

SAM is an optical library management application. A newly-created GUI runs on top of a StorageQuest core UDF Device Drivers and Robotic control modules to create an automated optical archive manager.

The SAM application writes archive data in the background to Blu-ray optical media through the DISC ArXtor Optical Library. Archive data such as audio, video, medical images, financial records, etc. is spanned over as many discs as necessary without any user intervention. Some of the features in the software include offline media tracking and remote replication.

DISC announced in the Spring-2012 the next generation of Blu-ray Archival Storage Libraries including iSCSI connectivity and Purpose-Built Virtual Appliance options to support middleware archival tiered-storage management solutions.

Engineered and manufactured in Germany, the ArXtor Series continues with DISC’s tradition of developing direct-attached automated optical library solutions. Mechanically based on DISC Series ‘touchless media’, patented SmartPack and robotics technology, the ArXtor Series using Blu-ray optical drive technologies is an archival storage automation solution for managing 120mm optical media (BD/BDXL/DVD/CD).

"StorageQuest’s Software Technology complements DISC’s new ArXtor Blu-ray iSCSI Libraries Series by providing a very cost competitive, ease to use/administer and a feature rich approach to data storage management," said Mark Brown, VP Sales North-America of DISC.

"Both StorageQuest and DISC have been in the storage business for decades and this continued technology partnership highlights our ability to work together to not only understand the new challenges and demands facing the data-oriented enterprise, SMB and government workforce, but also to deliver fully automated long-term archiving solutions specifically tailored to meet the evolving needs of today’s customer IT infrastructures," said Marwan Zayed, president and CEO, StorageQuest.

"Data has been growing exponentially. Businesses and governments are realizing the importance of good data management practices and procedures with archiving a major component. An Archiving solution such as the StorageQuest Archive Manager (SAM) along with the new DISC ArXtor Blu-ray Library Series provides customers with a low Total Cost of Ownership to protect their valuable rapidly growing data for very long periods of time," said Brendan Lelieveld-Amiro, director of Product Development and Operations, StorageQuest.