The 2018 Storage Products of the Year competition has a heavy focus on the cloud and reflect other major trends in the market.

Quest QoreStor has been named a finalist for data backup and recovery tools for the 2018 year. Some of the key players in data backup and recovery tools are featured in the category this year. They’re going up against some newer vendors looking to make their mark in the field. While some of the finalists offer complete data protection platforms, others offer a more targeted support, such as in archiving or Office 365 backup.

Cloud backup, recovery and management were the key solutions for 2018. Some other recurring solutions include software-defined storage, Office 365 protection and detection of the ever-evolving threat of ransomware.

The data backup and recovery tools category includes, but not limited to backup and recovery software, cloud backup and recovery services, on-premises backup and disaster recovery, snapshots, replication and archiving.

Quest Software QoreStor

Quest QoreStor is what the vendor calls a software-defined secondary storage platform that is backup vendor-agnostic. Features include enterprise-class compression and deduplication, direct cloud backup and remote replication for disaster recovery. QoreStor uses variable block deduplication and provides inline and source dedupe capabilities.

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