FALCONSTOR THE MARKET LEADER IN DISK-BASED DATA PROTECTION SOLUTIONS MAKING ITS ENTRY INTO MALAYSIA

FalconStor – appoints local partners to distribute the CDP Virtual Appliance for VMWare
(L to R): Wendy Koh, Sales Director of Maxmulia Holdings Sdn Bhd, Mr Simon Ng, FalconStor Regional Director of South Asia and Mr Yap, General Manager of Zen Computer during the appointment of FalconStor appointment of Master Resellers.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – April 3, 2008 – FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC), the market leader in disk-based data protection solutions, today announced that it has partnered with Maxmulia Holdings Sdn Bhd (Maxmulia) and ZEN Computer Systems Sdn Bhd (ZEN Computer), are the leading business solution service providers, to distribute the new FalconStor® Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Virtual Appliance for VMware® Infrastructure to the small to medium-sized businesses (SMB). This solution provides continuous data protection for both physical and virtual machines and will be available to local channel partners via Maxmulia and ZEN Computer, the appointed Master Resellers in Malaysia.

Providing enterprise features in a simple-to-use and reasonably priced appliance rides the wave of a major IT trend. The other noteworthy part of CDP Virtual Appliance is just that – it’s “virtual.” Virtual appliances have all the earmarks of a revolutionary approach to developing and deploying business applications. The implications for faster software development cycles and powerful customer experience are profound. FalconStor is one of the first vendors to support virtualized servers for the SMB market – and as an early provider of a robust virtual appliance.

Integrated with the VMware ESX Server 3i, the unified solution empowers organizations to meet data protection challenges by providing periodic and any-point-in-time recovery for business continuity and disaster recovery. FalconStor CDP Virtual Appliance for VMware Infrastructure is a pre-built, pre-configured and ready-to-run software application packaged with the operating system inside a virtual machine for easy integration and deployment. This provides the industry's fastest, most granular recovery of mission critical databases, messaging data, files, and even entire systems in the event of hardware or software failures and site-level disaster.

“Partnering with Maxmulia and ZEN Computer will support the expansion of FalconStor´s reach and capability to better service FalconStor CDP Virtual Appliance customers, particularly a much broader set of SMB market," said Simon Ng, FalconStor Regional Director of South Asia. “The new relationship with Maxmulia and ZEN Computer will provide FalconStor with an opportunity to rapidly gain market share in Malaysia and with additional technical resources ready-to-deploy CDP Virtual Appliance.”

“FalconStor consistently delivers solutions that give our customers the best data protection at the right price,” said Simon. “With the introduction of the CDP Virtual Appliance for VMware, FalconStor has taken data protection to an entirely new level by creating a single solution that meets customers' continuous availability needs across both physical and virtual environments.” "We are delighted and look forward to expanding our partnership,”.

Enterprises are shifting to CDP offerings for business continuity, with CDP adoption for databases and messaging applications projected to increase from 20% in 2006 to 35% in 2011. Enterprises in emerging Asia Pacific markets are also expected to adopt advanced disk-only data protection offerings such as CDP at a faster rate than VirtualTape Library (VTL).

Seamlessly integrated with the ESX server, the FalconStor CDP Virtual Appliance provides continuous availability to data with 100% data integrity. Highlights include:

· Pre-configured virtual appliance for easy integration and deployment
· Advanced data protection capabilities such as snapshot, mirroring, replication for any point in time recovery
· Up to 255 snapshot recovery points
· Transactional integrity snapshots for fast recovery with no data loss
· Remote replication for disaster recovery
· Simple protection and recovery processes, needing no additional scripting
· Rapid, reliable recovery (typically in minutes)
· HyperTrac serverless backup acceleration, which eliminates backup windows and host performance impact

Simple to use, the FalconStor CDP Virtual Appliance enables physical-to-virtual (P2V) recovery of a crashed physical server in as little as 10 minutes, virtual-to-virtual (V2V) recovery of a crashed guest system in as little as two minutes, and can recover a lost file or database, regardless of size, in as little as one minute.

Disaster recovery (DR) is a major driver for server virtualization because DR is a major headache in the data center. A best practice for traditional DR is to recreate the primary site in nearly every detail at the secondary site, from hardware to software to components. This doubles not only the upfront purchase costs, but also the ongoing system maintenance requirements, since any patches or upgrades made to systems at the primary site must be made at the secondary site as well. For DR testing, CDP Virtual Appliance allows VMware users to replicate their LUNs to a remote site – i.e., mount test data to the secondary VM – and thus test DR without expensive and disruptive traditional testing.

“A centralized and virtualized storage infrastructure is critical to realizing the full benefits of virtualization”. “By combining VMware Virtual Infrastructure and FalconStor data protection software, customers get a solution that delivers significantly improved infrastructure scalability and management, high availability, high reliability, and significant cost savings. We believe it’s the simplest, fastest, and most accurate all-around data protection solution for VMware environments.”

FalconStor CDP Virtual Appliance for VMware is now available in Malaysia. For more information, visit http://www.falconstor.com/en/solutions/?pg=Application&sb=VMware

* Source: Disk-Based Data Protection Forecast: 2006 to 2011, Forrester Research, Inc.