Qualstar releases prototype enterprise class library offering with Sony Imaging

Qualstar Corp., provider of data storage systems, has developed a prototype enterprise class library solution with Sony Imaging Products & Solutions.

The highly scalable enterprise class library solution leverages Qualstar’s expertise and experience in designing efficient robotic-based storage systems. Utilizing Sony’s Optical Disc Archive Generation 3 technology, a single library will scale from 4.7 PB up to 50 PB. It can scale out to multi-library cluster configurations capable of managing hundreds of petabytes of archive data.

“Today’s supercomputing environments need high capacity, scalable data storage solutions to archive data for a longer period of time,” said Arun Vaishampayan, Qualstar’s vice president of global sales. “Sony’s Optical Disc Archive Generation 3 storage platform fulfills the needed requirements of this market.”

“We are delighted with the progress of this project,” said Steven N. Bronson, CEO of Qualstar. “We believe the jointly developed product will serve the needs of our valued customers and open new markets for optical devices.”

International Medical Solutions launches CloudSync for Google Cloud healthcare customers transitioning to the cloud

International Medical Solutions (IMS), a Google Cloud Partner, announced a solution that will enable radiologists and other healthcare clinicians to transition to the cloud. 

The IMS CloudSync enables radiology sites to transition to the cloud and continue to use their legacy on-premise workstations and DICOM viewers. The front-end solution designed with the needs of initial Google Cloud Platform (GCP) users in mind uses an implementation that enables GCP to be added to an on-premise legacy viewing workflow, where GCP would act as the archive. 

The plug-and-play solution works out-of-the-box and allows PACS sites to sync their on-premise storage of medical images with their cloud storage. The added benefit is the sites can continue to use their legacy PACS workstations to view images stored in the cloud. 

"IMS has been working closely with Google Cloud to solve unmet needs for customers who are starting to transition to the cloud. CloudSync™ is an out-of-the-box, cost-effective solution that improves clinician workflows while enabling them to use on-prem legacy systems at the same time," says Vittorio Accomazzi, CTO of International Medical Solutions. Accomazzi adds, "Also, CloudSync inherently provides image sharing as it allows multiple sites to share and exchange images on GCP."

IMS CloudVue will also be featured at RSNA this year. The solution, which launched earlier this year, is a cloud-based viewing platform that provides the experience of an installed application on any device or workstation. CloudSync and CloudVue can also be used as a disaster recovery solution since CloudSync will upload the on-premise data onto GCP, which can be accessed using CloudVue. At any given time, the user has two copies of the data and at least two ways for accessing it.

Over the last year, IMS has worked closely with Google Cloud to enhance the integration with the Google Cloud Healthcare API, including integrating with machine learning backend.

Qualstar works on a prototype enterprise class library solution with Sony Imaging

Qualstar Corp., provider of data storage systems, has developed a prototype enterprise class library solution with Sony Imaging Products & Solutions.

The highly scalable enterprise class library solution leverages Qualstar’s expertise and experience in designing efficient robotic-based storage systems. Utilizing Sony’s Optical Disc Archive Generation 3 technology, a single library will scale from 4.7 PB up to 50 PB. It can scale out to multi-library cluster configurations capable of managing hundreds of petabytes of archive data.

Through a wholly owned subsidiary, Qualstar also provides high efficiency and high density power supplies under the N2Power brand. Its N2Power power supply products provide compact and efficient power conversion for a wide variety of industries and applications, including but not limited to telecom, networking, broadcast, industrial, lighting, gaming, and test equipment.

“Today’s supercomputing environments need high capacity, scalable data storage solutions to archive data for a longer period of time,” said Arun Vaishampayan, Qualstar’s Vice President of Global Sales. “Sony’s Optical Disc Archive Generation 3 storage platform fulfills the needed requirements of this market.”

“We are delighted with the progress of this project,” said Steven N. Bronson, CEO of Qualstar. “We believe the jointly developed product will serve the needs of our valued customers and open new markets for optical devices.”

StoneFly Smart Cloud Gateway improves efficiency, scalability for IT systems; allows transfer of data to the cloud of choice

StoneFly Smart Cloud Gateway delivers enhanced performance and scalability that gives enterprises the power to configure storage, backup, disaster recovery and archival options in the cloud of their choice by integrating StoneFly Smart Cloud Gateway with their existing infrastructure. 

The Smart cloud gateway is purpose-built to support enterprise-scale workloads without compromising performance and data availability. StoneFly Smart cloud gateway makes data transfers simple, hassle-free and easy for IT administrators.

Being an eighth generation product, StoneFly Smart Cloud gateway has been developed in accordance with user feedback. The appliance classifies data into tiers according to user-defined policies. Users can choose to move data from on-premises to cloud storage tiers like Azure Cool blob, AWS S3-IA or Azure Archival Blob. This automated process reduces cost of data retention and simplifies data management for IT administrators.

StoneFly smart cloud gateway appliance is a purpose-built plug and play infrastructure. The gateway appliance can effortlessly move hotdata to high performance storage tiers, cold data to lower-cost, high capacity drives and older data to archival data tiers for exceptional application performance and reduced TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) of storage.

Headquartered in the Silicon Valley (Hayward) California, StoneFly was founded to deliver upon the vision of simple and affordable enterprise-class products. Purpose-built, optimized, fully security hardened and tested enterprise-class products, StoneFly provides physical, virtual, cloud, software as a service (SaaS), consulting, enterprise managed services, cloud migration services, public/private cloud infrastructure, backup, disaster recovery (DR), cloud file/sync collaboration and office in the cloud.

With constant threats like ransomware, power outages and hardware failure targeting business data, it’s important that businesses have reliable data protection strategies setup. With StoneFly cloud storage gateway, businesses can setup the 3-2-1 rule of data protection, creating copies of their backup data in the cloud. This creates an additional layer of recoverability and enables IT administrators to initiate data recovery from anywhere, anytime.

Last December, StoneFly Smart Cloud Gateway added backup and archiving to its capabilities, thus enabling the service that connects on-premise appliance with cloud-based storage. Users can adopt the Smart Cloud Gateway to store data in Microsoft Azure Cloud, Amazon AWS, any S3 compatible cloud or any other public or private cloud for scalable and cost-effective storage.

Using standard backup software and the Smart Cloud Gateway, consumers can write backups to the cloud and store data durably. This enables both long-term data retention for compliance and recovery into the cloud, locally or other site on-premises.

With the Smart Cloud Gateway, clients can expand on-premise storage into the cloud without having to physically buy additional disks to expand on-premise storage. It works with existing applications whether it is a backup application, a line of business application or file server. The Smart Gateway works with all those types of scenarios and provides a low latency access to users/customers.

StoneFly cloud storage gateway protects important business data using SSL/TLS tunneling and AES 256-bit encryption. This prevents malicious software from gaining access to the data in transit. Businesses can choose to encrypt data before transit as well and then decrypt using secure decryption key on the receiving end. It also leverages snapshot technology to create snapshot images that deliver data protection from ransomware and data loss, while going back in time and quickly recovering in the event of a ransomware attack, accidental and malicious deletion or similar disaster.

StoneFly cloud storage gateway can transfer from terabytes (TBs) to petabytes (PBs) of data. With StoneFly’s technology, the cloud gateway facilitates data transfers for enterprise-scale workloads without affecting the outbound network. With a simple to use interface, users can easily setup data transfers from on-premises to cloud or cloud to cloud. The cloud storage gateway does not require complex setup and deployment procedures. It’s easy to setup and can be deployed within minutes.