Why did we develop QStora?

We are a team which has the storage experts with more than 10 years' experience. We have gone from vigorous young people to middle-aged people who have begun to have white hair. However, our enthusiasm for the storage business has not never changed. We have designed a storage product with single cluster storage data exceeding EB and 99.9999% availability per week for two consecutive years. We do not use open source storage, so we have more control over the code. Our product has served many major customers around the world. We are very proud of developing such a popular storage product.

We hope that our storage product can be deployed and used by more people, and not only we can operate and maintain such a system. We believe that software-defined storage should be a very simple thing, just like other software, it should be able to be downloaded, installed and used like other software. Therefore, we use our existing storage experience to develop QStora to make it more flexible, easier to use, and can be easily deployed on any Linux operating system.

In the software-defined storage market, our product is not the top one in the industry. There are many storage solutions on the market. But in terms of making full use of existing resources, we are definitely number one in the industry.

We spent more than four years to develop QStora, a software-defined storage controller that is completely independent of specific hardware. Now we are very honored to show you QStora:

It is process-level, user-mode, and can be mixed deployed with any other applications. 

It can be easily installed on the Linux operating system of any brand and any configuration of physical servers, bare metal servers, virtual machines and even container instances.

It is completely decoupled with hardware drivers.

Therefore, you can make full use of existing resources to deploy storage services to achieve the same low latency and high availability as traditional hardware storage array, and also the same high scalability and high throughput as traditional distributed storage.

If you are worrying about how to improve the utilization of existing resources, if you are racking your brains with how to save the total cost, or if you are looking for a better solution that can replace existing storage, you can try QStora, you will find: Greate! Just it!

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