FalconStor CDP and FalconStor NSS 7.5 Solutions Now Available and Shipping

Latest FalconStor Releases Enable Secure Replication to the Cloud, Non-Disruptive Access to Data for Analytics – and Faster Deployment

KUALA LUMPUR, 8 October 2013 — FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC) announced today the general availability of FalconStor® Continuous Data Protector (CDP) 7.5 and FalconStor® Network Storage Server (NSS) 7.5 data protection solutions with RecoverTrac™ 2.7 disaster recovery (DR) automation technology.  

These solutions now offer enhanced features for intelligently moving, storing, and protecting data without burdening production resources. The RecoverTrac tool has more flexibility to automate failover and failback with greater accuracy in any physical, virtual, or hybrid environment, including VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V deployments. Improved capabilities allow users to:

• Migrate data to and from the cloud. FalconStor NSS 7.5 enables data migration to and from cloud infrastructures, allowing customers to deliver business continuity, data protection, and disaster recovery services.

• Optimize VMware storage environments. Enhanced integration with VMware VAAI enables highly efficient management of thinly provisioned disk space.

• Stretch data protection. An automated stretched cluster configurator in FalconStor NSS 7.5 simplifies the setup and configuration of metro stretched clusters, increasing data availability, reducing downtime, and improving business continuity.

• Fully automate disaster recovery. RecoverTrac 2.7 technology automates a full range of complex disaster recovery tasks including failover and failback in physical, virtual, and hybrid environments, including VMware vSphere 5.5.

• Ensure complete protection for Microsoft environments. The RecoverTrac tool now supports protection and recovery of physical and virtual machines running Microsoft Windows 2012 and Hyper-V 3.0.

• Replicate data with peace-of-mind. FalconStor NSS and FalconStor CDP 7.5 enable customers to replicate multiple types of data quickly, each with its own encryption format, adding an extra layer of security when moving data.

• Expand journaling on demand. FalconStor NSS and FalconStor CDP 7.5 include an enhanced continuous protection journal feature. This enables on-demand journal expansion when more space is needed, facilitating recovery and minimizing data loss or gaps in data.  

FalconStor data protection solutions go beyond other storage management systems by optimizing and enabling storage virtualization, continuous data protection, business continuity, and data analysis within heterogeneous physical, virtual, and hybrid environments across multiple locations. Businesses can deploy comprehensive data protection and disaster recovery while creating a secondary storage repository for data mining and other uses without any impact on production storage.  

Availability

On October 8th, FalconStor will begin shipping the 7.5 version of the FalconStor CDP and FalconStor NSS solutions with RecoverTrac disaster recovery automation technology. Please contact a local FalconStor partner for complete solution pricing and current upgrade and expansion promotions.

IDG Research, FalconStor Find Deduplication Technologies Drive Data Center Optimization

Survey highlights growing market for and proven benefits of deduplication in production environments

Kuala Lumpur 14 May 2013 — FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC), a market leader in disk-based data protection, today announced the results of IDG Research Services’ quick poll, “Backup Technologies; the Tale of the Tape.” The independent survey shows that deduplication has entered the mainstream and is effectively addressing the backup and data storage issues caused by exponential data growth. Large enterprises are leading the way – with mid-size companies and small businesses not far behind – in deploying and reporting significant benefits of the technology, including faster backups, quicker recovery, more efficient data management and lower operating costs.

Through its online poll, IDG Research collected information from 215 qualified IT leaders at large, medium and small companies across various industries regarding their use of backup and deduplication technologies. Key survey findings include:
• Fifty-nine percent of all respondents either have a deduplication solution in place (43 percent) or plan to implement one (16 percent).
• An aggregated 52 percent of large enterprises, 32 percent of mid-size companies and 28 percent of SMBs currently have a deduplication solution in place.
• An aggregated 60 to 70 percent of respondents already have achieved or expect to realize faster backups, quicker recovery and improved efficiency with deduplication.
• Forty percent of all respondents, regardless of company size, retain backup data for more than three years.

“Data is growing at the rate of 50 to 60 percent annually, which results in conventional backup and data protection environments becoming an overwhelming, costly burden. Unsure of what else to do, companies have purchased more backup media and spent a lot of money trying to solve the problem. However, with the introduction of deduplication technology, companies were able to cost-efficiently back up information to disk and store data for longer periods of time,” said Suresh Nair, general manager and vice president of sales and marketing of Asia Pacific for FalconStor. “Today, deduplication is an integral aspect of any modern storage strategy. The IDG survey shows that deduplication has been deployed and tested by a wide range of midsize to large enterprises, demonstrating its benefits to the rest of the market and accelerating adoption of the technology.”

The survey data also revealed that an aggregated 59 percent of companies polled are using a combination of disk-based backup and tape storage; and an aggregated 39 percent are using disk-based backup with deduplication. Tape continues to be a cost-effective medium for data archiving, especially as businesses are required to retain records for longer periods of time, while disk-based systems are deployed for faster backup and recovery. Deduplication increases the efficiency of both disk and tape, optimizing the management of both short- and long-term storage.

The FalconStor® Virtual Tape Library (VTL) solution, one of the industry’s fastest and most flexible disk-based backup and deduplication systems, is widely used by enterprises to optimize data backup, recovery, and storage. The FalconStor VTL solution provides customers the flexibility to optimize backup for speed and efficiency by tailoring deduplication processes to the needs of their environment. The system offers an array of deduplication options, including inline, concurrent, post-processing or no deduplication – and the flexibility to deploy them in multiple configurations to match types of data and available storage. Global Deduplication another key feature with FalconStor VTL, further enhances efficiency as it minimizes replication of data between between offices within an organization.

Study demographics
IDG Research polled 215 qualified IT leaders in various industries regarding the current and future use of backup and deduplication technologies. At the time of the survey 33 percent of these individuals worked at firms with more than 5,000 employees; 24 percent had between 1,001 and 5,000 employees; 35 percent had between 101 and 1,000 employees; and eight percent had between 50 and 100 employees.

FalconStor Launches Service Partner Program in APAC

New Program Expands FalconStor Professional Services, Creates Business Opportunity for Partners

Kuala Lumpur, 7 May 2013 — FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC), a market leader in disk-based data protection, today launched its new Service Partner Program throughout the Asia Pacific region. Through training and authorization, the program identifies participating partners as preferred providers of FalconStor-specific professional services. Customers will have greater access to quality service, improving customer satisfaction and increasing partner revenue.

“We designed FalconStor’s Service Partner Program to enhance both our partners’ and our customers’ experience with FalconStor,” said Suresh Nair, general manager and vice president of sales and marketing of Asia Pacific for FalconStor. “Partners gain a new revenue source and competitive differentiation, while customers receive trusted high-quality service. Beyond these core benefits, the program broadens FalconStor’s reach into new markets by growing a larger and more capable channel network that can deliver more solutions and services to new customers.”

The Service Partner Program will employ two categories of service providers: FalconStor Professional Services Partners, tier-one channel partners who can sell and deliver professional services to their own customer base, and FalconStor Authorized Services Partners, independent service partners who act as an extension of FalconStor to provide professional services to customers and tier-two partners who don’t have services capability.

Partners participating in the new program will have received training and certification for FalconStor’s solutions and will have access to FalconStor’s service resources and tools. FalconStor will promote certified service partners as providers of reliable, high-quality professional services; and partners will benefit from periodic technical training and pre-release product information sessions.

What partners are saying about FalconStor’s new Service Partner Program:

“As a key partner of FalconStor in APAC, we are proud to have access to a mature program that supports us in building our business value, specifically through the utilization of advanced technology from FalconStor. Through this program, we will have the chance to get more technical training and pre-sales resources, therefore increasing customer confidence and making us more competitive. Maintaining customer satisfaction is a key factor of success for us, and this program will definitely be a great advantage.”
- Philip Lo, Director, DataXcross Technology Sdn. Bhd.

“The Service Partner Program rolled out by FalconStor addresses our customers’ most pressing data protection and business issues and, in turn, we are able to benefit from the increasing levels of opportunities for profitable growth. This demonstrates FalconStor’s ongoing dedication to channel partners as FalconStor consistently has worked with us to help us expand our business and achieve greater growth.”
- Wendy Koh, Sales Director, Maxmulia Holdings Sdn Bhd

“Data protection continues to be a primary concern for all of the markets we address in Malaysia, as we increasingly see the rising demand for innovative solutions among our customers. We are truly excited about FalconStor’s Services Partner Program. In addition to being one of the leaders in the industry, FalconStor also has established itself as a channel-focused organization with a profit-rich program created exclusively to help channel partners grow their data protection business.”
- Yap Choon Keong, General Manager, Zen Computer Systems Sdn Bhd

FalconStor Announces Appointment of Ingram Micro as Distributor in Singapore

KUALA LUMPUR, March 12, 2013 — FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC), a market leader in disk-based data protection, today announced the appointment of Ingram Micro Asia as FalconStor's distributor in the Singapore and Indochina markets. Ingram Micro is a leading wholesale provider of a wide range of computer products in the Asia Pacific region.

"We are very pleased with the opportunity presented by FalconStor and look forward to a long and fruitful partnership. We see growth in FalconStor solutions over the years, and we are glad to be working with their innovative team to further this course. We believe the world-class data protection and recovery solutions from FalconStor will prove to be a successful addition to our impressive portfolio of products,” says Francis Choo, executive managing director at Ingram Micro.

(L to R) Mr. Suresh Nair, General Manager and Vice President of Sales and Marketing of Asia Pacific for FalconStor. Mr. Francis Choo, Executive Managing Director at Ingram Micro

Commenting on the announcement, Suresh Nair, general manager and vice president of sales and marketing of Asia Pacific for FalconStor, said: “We are delighted to be working with Ingram Micro, who is ideally placed to service an exciting and growing market in which they are widely recognized.

We look forward to the collaboration with an organization that, like FalconStor, is a market leader in its industry. FalconStor and Ingram Micro share a strong commitment to innovate and strive further in bringing higher value to our respective stakeholders. We firmly believe that the collaboration will strengthen our position within the data protection, replication and recovery market, as it allows us to capitalize on Ingram Micro’s well-established distribution network."

The new partnership will further support FalconStor’s initiative to develop the company’s reach in the region. Ingram Micro will augment FalconStor’s expanding geographical coverage in sales, marketing, training and ongoing support for the Singapore and Indochina markets.

FalconStor Opens APAC Regional Office in Singapore, Continues Global Expansion

KUALA LUMPUR, October 22, 2012 — FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC), a market leader in disk-based data protection, today announced the official opening of the company’s Asia Pacific (APAC) regional headquarters in Singapore. FalconStor currently has offices in Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, and Australia.

“FalconStor has experienced growth throughout APAC due to the wide acceptance of FalconStor’s award-winning data protection and recovery solutions, and we expect it to be a key driver of the company’s future growth,” said Jim McNiel, president and CEO of FalconStor Software. “Our investment in the Singapore office demonstrates our commitment to our regional channel partners, to their customers and to the APAC business community at large.”

Jim McNiel, president and CEO of FalconStor Software

Because of its outstanding infrastructure and strong trade links, Singapore is an ideal location for FalconStor to grow its share of the APAC market for data protection, replication and recovery.

Suresh Nair, general manager and vice president of sales and marketing of Asia Pacific for FalconStor


Spearheaded by Suresh Nair, general manager and vice president of sales and marketing of Asia Pacific for FalconStor, the new Singapore headquarters will coordinate and support FalconStor’s initiatives in APAC countries. The new office establishes a strong company presence to meet the growing demand for world-class data protection and recovery solutions; and it offers comprehensive local and regional sales support and resources, including:
• A sales operations center that houses the local sales team and technology experts as well as regional financial, human resources and IT support functions.
• Training facilities for partners to upgrade their skill set to serve their customers.
• A new solutions center for partners to demonstrate products and to stage complex solution designs for customers.

“The new Singapore office significantly enhances our sales operations in APAC,” said Suresh Nair. “In addition to our core set of sales support services, the office provides customers the ability to test our solutions before they make a buying decision. Ultimately, our active presence in Singapore will help us build stronger relationships with our partners and customers, which will strengthen our leadership in the region.”

Sabah University of Malaysia Partners with FalconStor to Ensure Business Continuity and Quality Services for Students

KUALA LUMPUR, September 18, 2012 — FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC), a market leader in disk-based data protection, today announced that Sabah University of Malaysia (UMS) has implemented FalconStor’s data protection solutions – including FalconStor® Continuous Data Protector (CDP), FalconStor® Virtual Tape Library (VTL), and HyperTrac™ Backup Accelerator products -- in an effort to achieve business continuity while controlling data growth and storage costs.

For most organizations, backup and recovery is a challenge, and UMS is no exception. Since its inauguration in 1994, UMS has grown from approximately 200 undergraduate students to more than 15,000. With the rapid expansion of the university’s student population comes even more data, in particular the academic and personal information that students have entrusted to the school for safekeeping. Managing data is extremely important to the university because improper handling of information can have devastating consequences. With increased awareness of the risks of data loss, the Malaysian government has introduced the Personal Data Protection Bill, which penalizes organizations that mishandle their data. Losing data can also lead to loss of funding, lawsuits and loss of reputation. Responding to data loss is a costly process that can easily consume large amounts of resources and manpower, which can significantly disrupt the university’s business operations.

Prior to deploying FalconStor solutions, UMS’s ICT department used tape backup, a slow process particularly in restoring data. As business operations grew, the university’s increasingly critical data grew significantly to the point where tape backup was no longer sufficient to meet the higher response levels and faster recovery needed for optimum data management. A new, trusted backup and business continuity facility was needed to increase confidence in the safety and integrity of information and to help the UMS data center achieve Information Security Management System Certification (ISO/IEC 27001).

Prof. Dr. Mohd. Harun Abdullah, UMS Vice-Chancellor, said: “The fast recovery approach of the FalconStor CDP solution eliminated our backup window problem while providing almost instantaneous recovery for our most critical data. In addition, it optimized storage utilization for long-term data retention.”

The immediate benefits from the adoption of FalconStor solutions include reduced downtime, simplified management and fast data recovery, all of which are vital to the university's operations. This has enabled UMS to strengthen their commitment to provide a first class academic experience for their students. With important data handled safely and effectively, the university not only ensures that information is safe and secure but also brings more value to students as important academic information and references are stored in a trusted system.

Mr. Suresh Nair, Vice President and General Manager for FalconStor APAC said: "We are truly honored to be recognized by UMS as the backup and recovery solution of choice. UMS’s deployment demonstrates how FalconStor ensures that customers’ critical data is safe and available for quick recovery; enabling organizations to better optimize their IT investments, in aligning service level expectations with an increasingly dynamic business environment."

FalconStor’s effective data backup and recovery systems help customers be more agile and better prepared for disaster while safeguarding their business needs. FalconStor solutions are the foundation of business continuity.

FalconStor Enables Automated Service-Oriented Disaster Recovery for Any Environment

FalconStor’s RecoverTrac 2.5 DR Automation Tool Ensures Rapid Recovery of IT Services 
In the Event of Data Center Failure

Kuala Lumpur, August 28, 2012—FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC), a market leader in disk-based data protection, today announced the latest version of RecoverTrac™ technology, offering customers fully automated recovery of complete IT services in any data center environment. Key enhancements in RecoverTrac 2.5 enable lightning fast recovery in mixed physical and virtual environments, failover and failback between dissimilar hardware and non-disruptive disaster recovery (DR) testing. As a standard feature of FalconStor® Continuous Data Protector (CDP) and FalconStor® Network Storage Server (NSS) solutions, the RecoverTrac DR automation tool allows customers to protect critical business services and recover these services in minutes.

“The rapidly rising demand for cloud computing, virtualization and big data have added new levels of complexity to IT infrastructures; these trends require organizations to rethink how they plan, test and execute DR strategies to meet high service level expectations,” said Suresh Nair, general manager and vice president of sales and marketing for FalconStor in the Asia Pacific region. “The RecoverTrac 2.5 tool provides one central management platform for IT administrators to define all recovery tasks, fully automate time-consuming manual processes, and initiate automatic, one-click DR testing without disrupting data center operations. RecoverTrac 2.5 technology recovers multiple servers and applications simultaneously, performing failover/failback between any combination of physical and virtual machines – dramatically eliminating the complexities of DR and reducing reliance on personnel.”

IT managers need to manage and protect mixed environments composed of physical and virtual assets and equipment from multiple vendors. RecoverTrac 2.5 technology is optimized for today’s heterogeneous data centers with enhancements that increase the speed and flexibility of DR automation:
• Lightning fast recovery: Performance improvements and the ability to recover multiple machines simultaneously return organizations to full productivity in minutes.
• Any-to-any recovery: Integration with VMware and Hyper-V and support for hardware templates enables failover and failback between any combination of physical and virtual servers and between dissimilar hardware.
• Greater VMware support: VMware vSphere 5 and VMware cluster support enables load balancing and high-availability configurations.
• Automated push-button DR rehearsal: Allows busy IT managers to test and refine recovery processes on a regular basis without disrupting business operations.

“IT resilience and data protection are key elements to a company’s success,” said John Morency, research vice president at Gartner. “Businesses must be able to recover quickly following a disruptive event, whether it is a lost file or the failure of a complex application or service. In failing to execute well tested disaster recovery, companies face the prospect of significant downtime, diminished employee productivity and lost revenue. Failover/failback automation ensures that IT managers can deploy and test DR processes far more efficiently and effectively – resulting in a significant reduction of the business impact of planned downtime.”
“The FalconStor CDP data protection solution enables server recovery after SAN storage failure and backup site recovery in the event of a natural disaster. Server recovery with FalconStor CDP is dramatically faster and easier compared to traditional backup methods,” said You Ootagaki, general manager and head of information technology at Nissay Asset Management. “Even if it were possible for an IT manager to be the first one to arrive at the scene to initiate recovery processes in an emergency, there would not be enough time to manage the task for a large number of servers. This is why FalconStor’s RecoverTrac automated disaster recovery tool is so important. With its sophisticated DR automation capabilities, RecoverTrac technology reassures me that FalconStor CDP’s high performance backup and recovery will be fast and efficient even in a true disaster scenario.”

“Panasonic Solution Technologies welcomes FalconStor’s RecoverTrac 2.5 automated DR tool with its new features and enhanced functions,” said Takashi Fukuchi, president of Panasonic Solution Technologies Co., Ltd. “We consider FalconStor’s data protection software the core technology in our business continuity offering area, and it plays a critical role in the IT-BCP solutions we provide our customers. We can now deliver more flexible business continuity offerings, as the new version of RecoverTrac enables faster system recovery with a variety of options in any mixture of physical/virtual environments.”

Availability and pricing
FalconStor RecoverTrac is available immediately as a standard feature of FalconStor CDP and FalconStor NSS.

FalconStor Launches Partner Program and Web Portal in APAC to Enhance Channel Sales

FalconStor’s PartnerChoice Program and PartnerPlace Web Portal Provide Comprehensive Sales Tools and Support to Meet Channel Partners’ Needs

KUALA LUMPUR, April 18, 2012—FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC), the market leader in disk-based data protection solutions, today launched PartnerChoice, FalconStor’s new three-tiered channel partner program, in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, completing its worldwide rollout. The program is designed to provide optimal channel marketing and sales support based on each partner’s business model, level of engagement and commitment. As an integral part of PartnerChoice, FalconStor has launched the PartnerPlace Web portal, which allows partners to track opportunities, manage account information and access an extensive knowledgebase of resources.

“FalconStor employs a 100 percent channel business model, and we believe the PartnerChoice program will increase channel sales and ensure the profitability of our channel partners in APAC,” said Suresh Nair, General Manager and Vice President of sales and marketing for FalconStor APAC. “PartnerChoice gives partners access to a mature program that will support them in building a world-class data protection business. Knowing that training is the cornerstone of FalconStor’s partner program, we will emphasize our partner certification programs to maintain the highest level of customer satisfaction.”

FalconStor’s PartnerChoice program is designed to drive revenue and growth for channel partners through extensive marketing support, sales incentives, training, technical support and lead generation and protection. Channel partners may access sales and marketing tools along with FalconStor’s integrated lead-management console through the PartnerPlace Web portal, which provides exclusive information and documentation that streamlines sales processes and assists in attracting and retaining new business.

The program offers market development funds (MDF) and volume incentive rebates (VIR) to Preferred and Premier level partners to assist and reward their sales efforts. All partners can participate in margin building, deal registration and financial incentives with no minimum requirements. FalconStor helps partners earn greater rewards according to their commitment and business goals through MDF and revenue goal rebates.

FalconStor’s PartnerChoice program was awarded CRN magazine’s 5-Star Partner Program rating, which recognizes the elite subset of Partner Program Guide vendors who give solution providers the best partnering elements in their channel programs.

Fujitsu and FalconStor Enter into Worldwide Reseller Agreement

Fujitsu to Bundle FalconStor NSS and Fujitsu Storage Solutions for Heterogeneous Storage Virtualization and Data Migration

MALAYSIA, KUALA LUMPUR, December 22, 2011—FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC), the market leader in disk-based data protection solutions, today announced that it entered into a comprehensive worldwide reseller agreement with Fujitsu Limited (Fujitsu), the leading provider of information and communication technology business solutions for the global marketplace. The combination of FalconStor software with Fujitsu storage will enhance Fujitsu’s comprehensive solutions to serve the evolving storage management needs of its customers.

Under the terms of the partnership with FalconStor, Fujitsu and its affiliates worldwide will resell FalconStor® Network Storage Server (NSS) storage virtualization and management solution in conjunction with its ETERNUS DX disk storage systems, using FalconStor NSS software bundled with Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers. The combined FalconStor/Fujitsu solutions will support flexible storage virtualization in multi-vendor storage environments. In addition, a new data migration service powered by FalconStor NSS will be offered by Fujitsu Professional Services and third-party professional services organizations that are partnered with Fujistu.
(From left to right):Mr. Charles Lew, President of Fujitsu (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd and Mr. Simon Ng, Regional Director for South Asia of FalconStor.

“This new agreement with FalconStor provides Fujitsu with an important technology that will help our customers in every part of the world,” said Charles Lew, president of Fujitsu (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd. “It complements the capabilities of ETERNUS DX disk storage systems and greatly simplifies the data migration process for those customers moving to Fujitsu’s state-of-the-art storage arrays.”

“As data continues to grow exponentially throughout global enterprises, the need to contain costs persists even as IT managers accommodate the expansion or upgrade of data center storage environments,” said Simon Ng, regional director for South Asia of FalconStor. “With FalconStor NSS, we are providing a strategic technology to Fujitsu that will help their customers manage, protect and expand existing storage installations – while also enabling a service that will help customers migrate to new, more efficient deployments.”

Fujitsu will sell FalconStor NSS bundled as gateway appliances with Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers. Fujitsu has certified FalconStor NSS for use with all Fujitsu storage, including Fujitsu ETERNUS DX disk storage systems, as well as third-party storage arrays, enabling Fujitsu customers to integrate new and legacy storage systems into a single virtual SAN with built-in business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities.

FalconStor’s Updated Product Suite Delivers Future-Ready Data Protection Today

Breaks the Barriers to Data Protection with Optimized Backup, Deduplication and DR for Continuous Availability of Critical IT Services

KUALA LUMPUR, November 9, 2011—FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC), the market leader in disk-based data protection solutions, today announced a comprehensive upgrade of its suite of data protection solutions. Version 7 (V7) of FalconStor’s product family offers the fundamental solutions for implementing next-generation backup and disaster recovery (DR) today – making it simple and cost effective to maintain uptime of critical IT services in the face of exponential data growth, widespread use of virtual servers and business demand for high availability.

Version 7 of FalconStor’s data protection suite synchronizes the product line and offers customers a complete set of solutions that provides everything needed to optimize legacy backup systems, migrate to disk-based backup and DR and guarantee fast recovery of essential systems and applications, while also laying the foundation for service-oriented data protection.
(from Left to right):Mr. Simon Ng, South Asia regional director of FalconStor Software Inc. & Mr. Shaun Lim, South Asia Product Evangelist of FalconStor Software Inc.

“Legacy backup and recovery methods are severely challenged as the pressing demand for IT service availability is compounded by shrinking budgets and complexities caused by remote offices and mobile users,” said Fadi Albatal, Vice President of Worldwide Marketing for FalconStor. “With V7, FalconStor’s data protection solutions have been optimized to deliver a holistic approach to backup and recovery that helps data centers of all sizes overcome obstacles to continuous service and data availability.”

FalconStor data protection solutions enable customers to:
• Seamlessly migrate to scalable, high-performance, disk-based backup with FalconStor’s deduplication technology, eliminating inefficient backup and recovery from tape.
• Optimize backup of both file and block data across a highly available, scalable global deduplication repository.
• Protect more data in less time with fast restoration, consolidating recovery point objectives (RPO) to mere seconds.
• Combine highly available virtualized heterogeneous storage environments with improved I/O performance, robust failover, data migration and automated DR to ensure data availability and business continuity.
• Extend the value of VMware vSphere by supporting VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) across heterogeneous storage platforms while integrating physical server failover and failback with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager support.

“As a communications service provider, Sunrise cannot tolerate any downtime that affects customer access to our services and information. In testing the new shared deduplication repository included in version 7 of FalconStor VTL and FalconStor FDS within our environment, we have seen an increase in backup and DR performance ensuring that any back-end issues affecting our customers are kept to an absolute minimum,” said Sandor Orban, Senior Storage Engineer for Sunrise Communications AG, a provider of mobile telephony, fixed network and Internet services in Switzerland. “In addition, we look forward to upgrading to FalconStor NSS V7 to take advantage of VMware vSphere 5 support in our large VMware/FalconStor NSS environment that runs critical customer-facing services.”

“We are delighted to offer the latest version of FalconStor’s product line, which will provide our customers with a complete suite of data protection solutions,” said Simon Ng, Regional Director of South Asia Operations for FalconStor. “Data protection is a perennial problem for businesses of all sizes, and FalconStor understands the significant time and investment required to manage it. V7 of FalconStor’s product offering is our answer to this problem; and we are confident that its advanced features and capabilities will help our customers overcome their backup and recovery issues quickly and efficiently.”

Key V7 enhancements
• FalconStor® Virtual Tape Library (VTL): Very high-performance deduplication with pre-parsing of data; real-time dashboards for full operational visibility; scales to more than one petabyte of storage; global deduplication repository.
• FalconStor® File-interface Deduplication System ( FDS): High availability; shared global deduplication repository with FalconStor VTL.
• FalconStor® Continuous Data Protector (CDP): 1,000 snapshots per volume for highly granular points of recovery and longer retention time; multi-threaded architecture accelerates performance of replication, compression and encryption.
• FalconStor® Network Storage Server (NSS): Supports VMware vSphere and VMware VAAI and extends VMware functionality in heterogeneous SAN environments that may not offer native VAAI support; accommodates greater volume scalability, larger drive sizes and virtual machine density.

Version 7 of FalconStor’s data protection product suite is available immediately.

What customers are saying
“We look forward to upgrading to version 7 of FalconStor NSS and FalconStor CDP and taking advantage of the enhanced performance, high availability and failover capabilities of these products. We also feel that service-oriented data protection is the future of backup and recovery, integrating all data management functions into one scalable solution.”
– Casey Carvalho, assistant director technical services, Ryerson University

“The performance and scalability refinements in version 7 are bringing FalconStor products up to the next level. FalconStor’s automated DR capability inherent in FalconStor CDP is a huge benefit – it speeds the pace of recovery, reduces hardware costs, and allows us to do off-line recovery practice. With version 7, FalconStor is moving closer to its vision of service-oriented data protection and leading the industry in the right direction.”
– Justin Bell, network engineer, Strand Associates

“Since we are a distributed organization, Halma IT needs the scalability and versatility of FalconStor solutions. Currently we are using FalconStor CDP extensively to provide reliable local and remote disaster recovery to our subsidiaries worldwide. With the launch of version 7 of FalconStor’s product suite and the promise of FalconStor’s service-oriented data protection solution, we clearly envision its potential to be our one console for optimizing and managing all of our data protection processes.”
– Scott Sears, group data protection manger, Halma IT Services

“Using FalconStor VTL with deduplication, we have significantly reduced our backup window and eliminated redundant data. We are excited about Version 7 and its performance enhancements.”
– Gerardo Colon, Storage Administrator, AHS Information Services

FalconStor Solutions Day 2009

WHEN:
Tuesday, 2 June 2009 8:30 am – 2.00 pm

WHERE:
Grand Ballroom
The Gardens Hotel & Residences, Kuala Lumpur The Gardens, Mid Valley City
Lingkaran Syed Putra, 59200 Kuala Lumpur

WHO:
Simon Ng, Regional Director, South Asia - FalconStor Software Inc
David Choo, Storage Architect – FalconStor Software Inc
Ong Kok Leong, Senior Systems Consultant – Vmware ASEAN
Guest Speaker from HP
Goh Soon King, Sales Director - Sri Komputer Sdn Bhd

WHAT:
According to Gartner, CEOs will be the leading indicators of the IT industry for the next six to eighteen months. Therefore, their top priority is to restructure their businesses and financial structures by reducing capital expenditures, lowering operating costs and minimizing energy wastage.

Now is the time for IT professionals to think out of the box and explore new technologies that can increase efficiency and return on investments.

The FalconStor Solutions Day 09 seminar, themed ‘Make Your Assets Work For You’, aims to do just that by introducing new technologies which will enable IT professionals to ultimately maximize their ROA (Return On Assets).

WHY:
The FalconStor Solutions Day 2009 seminar aims to help you achieve the following:
· 80% savings on bandwidth required for Disaster Recovery
· 50% CAPEX reduction by using Tier II Storage and eliminate all Array based Licenses
· 20% OPEX reduction by eliminating backup windows and host performance impact
· 95% better Recovery Time (RTO)

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
The FalconStor Solutions Day 2009 is open to all CEO’s, CTO’s, CIO’s, MD’s, IT Heads and professionals. Those who are interested can simply visit www.rootsasia.com/falconstor/edm.htm to register now.

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.