Reducing Backup Storage
Costs with QoreStor®
Exponential data growth is taking its toll on IT organizations around the globe. It causes critical
backup and recovery processes to take too long, increasing the risk of business downtime anddata loss. But the real pain is that regardless of where you store your backups—be it on-premises
or in the cloud—storage costs are quickly eroding IT budgets. The outcome is to either spend moremoney, or limit what you protect.

Data Growth Projections in Zettabytes, Statista Report 20221

Quest® QoreStor® is a software-defined secondary
storage solution that provides a wide range ofprotection, recovery and optimization capabilities
to make whatever backup and recovery solution
you use even stronger and reduce backup storage
requirements and costs by 90% or more! That means
you can run backups more often, protect more dataor reduce IT costs. Being a pure software solutionmeans you can deploy QoreStor in the datacenter,remote offices and in the cloud.
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PROTECT

QoreStor provides a number of data protection
capabilities to complement your backup. To start,
QoreStor will accelerate your backup and recovery.
It delivers an immutable backup recycle bin that isused to combat ransomware attacks. Any backup
data that is maliciously deleted will be stored in therecycle bin for a specified retention period. This datacannot be changed, encrypted or deleted duringthat time. You also get object locking support whenusing an S3-based workflow with QoreStor as yourbackup target. QoreStor helps tighten data security
with built-in encryption at rest, secure erase and FIPS
140-2 compliance. To further enhance ransomware
protection for your backup data, QoreStor 7.4 provides
automated alerting to anomalous data operations.

KEY BENEFITSRECOVER• Reduce backup storage costs on-prem and in thecloud

QoreStor is a high-performing secondary storage
software solution that helps improve recovery
performance wherever it’s deployed. It also provides
fast, secure backup replication to another storage
device in the datacenter, remote site or in the cloud tohelp ensure recovery if your local backups areunavailable for any reason. You can also replicate
backups from remote offices to the datacenter for
better control and security. QoreStor replication is thekey to deploying a 3-2-1 backup strategy to address
many disaster recovery scenarios.

OPTIMIZEQoreStor provides unequaled global source-side data
deduplication and compression that accelerates
backup and recovery while reducing storage
requirements and costs by up to 93%. QoreStor
deduplication is far from ordinary. To start, it performs
deduplication across all your backup jobs for true
global deduplication. It combines a variable-blockdeduplication chunking methodology with a contentaware algorithm that identifies patterns in the data,
despite the shifting that results from additions ordeletions in the data stream. In the end, you attain thebest possible storage reduction available in
the industry.
QoreStor cloud tiering also helps optimize yourbackup data storage by keeping more recent backups
on-prem and moving older backups to the cloud. Thatway you can save money by using cloud storage
versus on-prem storage. Cloud tiering will also help
you recover your data faster as it will deliver the more
recent backup data from local disk while it’s acquiring
what it needs from the cloud.

2Using QoreStor alongside your existing backup andrecovery solution helps you:
• Increased ransomware protection with deep
anomaly detection capabilities• Accelerate both backup and recovery to reduce risk

• Leverage the cloud for disaster recovery and dataretention• Protect your backup data from ransomware andother cyberattacks• QoreStor delivers the protection, recovery andoptimization capabilities demanding IT managers
and executives seek in today’s challenging high-risk
environment
For more information about QoreStor, visit www.quest.
com/products/qorestor.

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