www.qstar.com QStar Archiving and Data Management Solutions Riccardo Finotti - CEO Massimiliano Finotti - CTO David Thomson – SVP Sales and Marketing 

www.qstar.com HISTORY AND BACKGROUND • Experts in Archiving for 37 Years • Established 1987, Bethesda, MD, USA • Corporate Headquarters • Denver, Colorado - USA • Milan – Italy • Worldwide Sales & Support • With partners in 60 Countries on 6 Continents, over 19,000 installations worldwide A Trusted Leading Global Provider of Archiving and Data Managem ent software and solutions About QStar Technologies Inc. 

www.qstar.com HISTORY AND BACKGROUND Archive Manager - Archive Gateway Software • “Tape-as-NAS” – SMB or NFS file system in front of tape • “Tape-as-Cloud” – S3 API in front of tape • “Cloud Gateway” – SMB or NFS file system in front of private / public cloud Network Migrator - Storage Reporter and Data Migration Software • Reports on primary storage by standard file attributes • Policy-based Copy, Move, Delete, Stub and Migrate Object Storage Manager - S3-compliant cloud storage platform QStar Products 

www.qstar.com Tape Library Store and Retrieve via SMB, NFS or S3 Application Servers On server of your choice Windows or Linux Disk Cache RAID HDD or SSD / NVMe Public / Private Cloud OR QStar Archive Manager 

www.qstar.com Tape Full Backup and Restore via SMB Offline Media Disk Cache Typically Small (1.5TB) but Fast (NVMe) QStar Archive Manager Windows server of your choice Web Services 

www.qstar.com Network Migrator Policy selects files to be archived (copied, moved, migrated leaving stubs) Prim ary Storage Agents or API needed for stub creation Disk Cache Archive Manager and Network Migrator Tape Library Public / Private Cloud OR Both on server of your choice Windows or Linux Web Services 

www.qstar.com Server (Windows or Linux) Intel Xeon E Processor 32GB RAM per Integral Volume Redundant Power Supply Fast Ethernet (25GBit) as 3 x LTO9 drives performance will be limited by 10Gbit Library HBA connection and possible switch – FC, SAS Cache (dedicated or shared) 1TB minimum to large cache depending on user requirements RAID or Mirrored Disk configuration preferred NVMe preferred, or SSD / FC / SAS drives in RAID configuration Cache used must be at least double the archive performance Archive Manager Hardware Requirements 

www.qstar.com 3 - Perform ance Copy Offline / Offsite Media iSCSI, FC, WAN 2- Disaster Prevention Copy 1- Secure Archive Copy Tape or Cloud Tape Library ARCHIVING & BEST PRACTICE . . 3 2 1 DATA PROTECTION Application Servers QStar Archive Replicator On server of your choice Windows or Linux SSD / HDD RAID Replicator supports up to 4 synchronous replicas on any combination of technologies Offline / Offsite Media 

www.qstar.com • Multi Node based Architecture • Scales Performance – tens to hundreds tape drives • Scales Capacity – tens of thousands of media, exabyte archives • Provide Global Access – single namespace • Node redundancy – high resilience with auto-failover • Simple administration – to create and manage domains and multiple file systems • No tape library partitioning needed • Windows or Linux based node options ANY NODE CAN ACCESS ANY MEDIA USING ANY TAPE DRIVE QStar Global ArchiveSpaceTM New 

www.qstar.com • Target Markets • High Performance Computing • AI / ML fast compute farms • Hyperscalers and cloud storage providers • Archive Manager users can upgrade to Global ArchiveSpaceTM • Higher Resilience – better option than clustered servers • Highest Scalability – more easily supports largest tape libraries QStar Global ArchiveSpaceTM New 

www.qstar.com • Multi-node Domain configurator • Security between nodes (server-server back-end communication) • Multi-node tape library sharing architecture • Physical Library Manager module which manages the tape library and supports failover, including media databases • Media ownership concepts. Protects media usage by non-authorized nodes in another Domain • Multi-node cloud storage configuration and multi-node access Enhancing a single node software to support a multi node environment QStar Global ArchiveSpaceTM 

www.qstar.com • Global cache concept • Single namespace file system on multiple nodes and tools to create global file system • Load balancing using DNS based and software balancer for balance client access • Test tools to measure global file system performance • Licensing model based on the Global ArchiveSpaceTM domain name/UUID • Multi-Drive option for higher performance with policies for file distribution to several tape drives Enhancing a single node software to support a multi node environment QStar Global ArchiveSpaceTM 

www.qstar.com Single LTO9 drive = 400MB/sec Two LTO9 drives = 800MB/sec Three LTO9 drives = 1.2GB/sec Store and Retrieve via SMB, NFS or S3 Application Servers Very Fast Cache • Data written to multiple tape drives from a single high performance cache • Multi-write splits data sets based on rules across multiple drives for higher write performance • Single media loaded for reads as we do not use RAIT (redundant array of independent tapes) Each Integral Volume can use single tape drive or the new Multi-Drive Option for enhanced performance Higher Tape Performance with Multi-Drive Drive 1 Drive 2 Drive 3 

www.qstar.com 2 1 4 3 6 5 8 7 10 9 11 Unique Set of Media – accessed through any drive Unique Set of Media – accessed through any drive Unique Set of Media – accessed through any drive Unique Set of Media – accessed through any drive Unique Set of Media – accessed through any drive Unique Set of Media – accessed through any drive Unique Set of Media – accessed through any drive Unique Set of Media – accessed through any drive Unique Set of Media – accessed through any drive Unique Set of Media – accessed through any drive Unique Set of Media – accessed through any drive Unique Set of Media – accessed through any drive Single Tape Library Not Partitioned Many Tape Drives Gateway Nodes use SMB, NFS and / or S3 12 A unique set of media is called an “Integral Volume” QStar Global ArchiveSpaceTM 

www.qstar.com QStar Global ArchiveSpaceTM Architecture 

www.qstar.com Solution Benefits • Availability across all locations • Automated data orchestration • High capacity archive • Compelling overall low-cost Hammerspace with QStar Global ArchiveSpaceTM + 

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