StorageQuest™ Announces REFLECTOR™ for Rimage™ a Network Backup & Archive Solution for Small and Medium Size Businesses
Innovative solution is the first to utilize Rimage CD & DVD publication equipment to offer SMB’s an unprecedented value in data protection.
Ottawa, Canada (PRWEB) June 29, 2005 -- StorageQuest Inc., the leader in
network attached optical; storage management today announced its REFLECTOR™ line
of Network Backup & Archive solutions. This is the industry’s first solution
to take advantage of the off-the-shelf CD/DVD publication hardware from Rimage,
(Nasdaq:RIMG - News), to offer the SMB customer not only a feature rich data
protection solution but also a information publishing solution at a cost less
than most tape based solutions.
“REFLECTOR is a unique solution in
Windows™ the data protection, providing comprehensive, cost-effective, and
compliant backup and recovery. Its intuitive user interface simplifies
instillation and management so anyone can configure and backup servers and
networked users through its wizards. REFLECTOR’S Disk-to-Disc architecture is
designed for business backing up from magnetic disk to optical disc to achieve
compliant long term data protection said Fred Bedard, StorageQuest’s Vice
President of Sale & Marketing. The SMB’s are among the fastest growing IT
segments today. These companies have IT needs that are just as sophisticated as
enterprise level companies, but they look for solutions that are simple to
install, use and maintain. REFLECTOR’S unique capability of utilizing Rimage's
optical storage publication hardware delivers an unprecedented value to these
businesses. They not only reap the benefits of a feature-rich network backup and
archive solution they also get an award winning CD/DVD publishing system
all-in-one-solution.”
Manny Almeida, Executive Vice President of Rimage
said, “Rimage sees a great opportunity for the CD/DVD archiving market. With
Reflector, StorageQuest had created an excellent application that expands the
power and capabilities of Rimage autoloaders to enable users to archive and
offload unlimited amounts of data to inexpensive, reliable media. Reflector is
an impressive application that has the power to address the needs of the CD/DVD
archiving market.”
REFLECTOR has many unique capabilities which set it
apart from traditional tape backup solutions. These solutions include; File
Spanning, File Splitting and Media Labeling. REFLECTOR’S File Spanning will
automatically record as many discs as required for the backup dataset and
optimally pack the data so that it requires the smallest number of discs. File
Splitting manages files larger than a piece of media to be split across multiple
discs. Split files can be restored without using the Reflector software on any
operating system. REFLECTOR will even print a full size label on each piece of
media, with the information the user has specified during the setup process,
automatically so each is easily identifiable.
When The International
Mission Board, an entity of the Southern Baptist Convention the nation’s largest
evangelical denomination with more than 40,000 churches and nearly 16 million
members, went looking for a solution to archive large video files off their Avid
Unity Media Network storage system they selected StorageQuest’s REFLECTOR and
the Rimage 2000i DVD publishing system. “We needed to develop an archive of our
video files and had looked at tape solutions while we were at NAB this year. But
the cost, reliability and the fact we could not easily share our videos with our
remote offices made it clear that tape was not the solution said Mark Ritter,
Operations manager of the E-media Dept. at the International Mission Board. The
fact that REFLECTOR can span large video files seamlessly across many DVD’s,
does not require any special software for playback and will custom label each
disc automatically, made this an easy decision for us. So for the additional
cost of the REFLECTOR software, we now have a practical archiving and video
publication system all in one solution.”
Pricing and
Availability
StorageQuest’s REFLECTOR is available today for all Rimage
publishing systems. Pricing starts at US $795.00 for the SERVER EDITION. An
optional CLIENT PAC, intended for users requiring the functionality of the
server edition at their desktops, is available at US $150.00/ user in single
quantities. Discounted multi-client packs are also available. The StorageQuest
REFLECTOR products include a full year of software updates.
About
StorageQuest
Since its inception in 1998, StorageQuest has pioneered
technology, product, and open solutions that continue to drive the evolution of
Net-attached optical storage. StorageQuest storage solutions include; network
attached appliances, storage management software and services, providing
seamless storage management for open network environments. StorageQuest, Inc. is
headquartered in Ottawa, ON Canada; www.StorageQuest.com.
About Rimage
Rimage
Corporation (Nasdaq:RIMG - News), is the world’s leading provider of recordable
CD/DVD publishing systems, which are used by businesses to produce discs with
customized digital content on an on-demand basis. Rimage’s publishing systems,
which span the range from high to low CD/DVD production volumes, integrate
robotics, software and surface label printers into a complete publishing
solution. Rimage Corporation is located in Minneapolis, MN, with operations in
the United States, Europe and Asia. www.Rimage.com.
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