Thursday, July 3, 2025

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QStar revolutionizes tape access with Global ArchiveSpace, enabling worldwide accessibility

QStar recently launched its Global ArchiveSpace, providing access to vast tape drive archives on a global scale. The company, established in 1987, specializes in archiving and tape products and boasts around 19,000 global deployments. The Global ArchiveSpace offers a single namespace where infrequently accessed data can be stored for artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, and hyperscaler cold storage. QStar’s multi-node, single-site tape architecture can scale to exabytes and allows for multi-tenant access. The system uses QStar’s proprietary file system and LTFS for access. Hosts can access the Global ArchiveSpace via SMB/NFS or S3 on Windows or Linux servers. The company also offers data replication to hyperscaler clouds or private S3 storage. Tape storage offers advantages in terms of security, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness compared to other storage mediums. Studies show that tape storage has lower carbon emissions and costs significantly less than disks over a 10-year period for 10PB. The Global ArchiveSpace is already being utilized by Cohesity, Hammerspace, Rubrik, and Hycu.