QoreStor seems to do a fabulous job of deduplication and compression. Otherwise, some of this could get pretty expensive in terms of storage costs. The fact that it can really cut that data down is great. The dedupe and compression are pretty extreme. On disk, we're getting dedupe rates of up to 65 percent of data and compression of 34 percent. When you go to the cloud, it's more like 76 percent for dedupe and almost 50 percent for compression.

What I find the most valuable about QoreStor is the data deduplication. It integrates with various backup software solutions, which makes it compatible with existing backup workflows and processes.

Data deduplication and replication would be the top two features. The encryption and cloud tiering are also attractive for the future.

Its one price is also interesting for us and our customers. You have one price, and you get everything from QoreStor.

It provides archiving capabilities, and you can archive to the cloud.

It is a software, so there is more flexibility. It can run on different hardware and is hardware-independent. The fact that it is a software was interesting for us because we also offer the appliance for IBM i and HP NonStop. For IBM i, we have an appliance that we offer with our box. For HP NonStop, it is integrated with our box. So, a customer buys a server based on the configuration that we recommend. We then install our software, and QoreStor runs underneath in the VM environment. So, it's all in the same physical box. For the NonStop market, we went further and used the QoreStor API. So, we are able to configure QoreStor from our software called BackBox. BackBox interfaces with NonStop, and we are controlling the QoreStor behind BackBox.

The most valuable features are replication and deduplication. It removes the need for me to be swapping tapes in our backups to the system. It's valuable for us to have copies of our backups in different locations, just in the event of a natural disaster or some sort of offline anomalies at a location.

The features we use for the data deduplication are nice because we're able to back up a much larger amount of data, yet it doesn't necessarily take up that much data on the devices.

Deduplication is the most valuable feature. It saves us a lot of space. When we back up 100 terabytes of data, after dedupe, it only uses maybe five to six terabytes for the disk space in QoreStor. 

We don't use replication features. We use a backup software to control the replication.

Right now, we only present QoreStor to the backup server. So the backup server, of course, will talk to software like a vSphere environment and the other data store. But I think all the backup servers come between the other stores and QoreStor.

We rely on QoreStor to do deduplication, which means that it's faster for us. Of course, the backup software can work with QoreStor to acquire dedupe, which reduces network traffic a lot.

The most valuable feature is that it is low maintenance. It runs like a self-maintenance script and I like that I don't have to actually think about doing anything for it. It does it on its own.

It depends on how you're using archiving, but it does do deduplication and you can replicate between units. We're currently not doing that necessarily. We were before, but we're not doing that anymore.

It has a cloud tier so you can expand your storage to the cloud. And so you can replicate your storage to the cloud or expand it so it moves up into the cloud. But we're currently not using the cloud tier.

QoreStor works with almost any backup software server and storage hardware. We were focused on ours, which was Veeam. We use Veeam for backup. It was important to us because I wanted the flexibility to be able to change other vendors if I needed to. Not that I'm interested in changing, but I have switched backup vendors in the past. And we haven't really considered changing virtualization at all, but it's nice to have that option.