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The following documents describe the many ways in which a diverse range of computing environments and applications are optimized by FalconStor's software for high availability, fast backup/recovery, easy manageability, and maximized capacity utilization, resulting in lower TCO and higher ROI.

Virtual Tape Library (VTL)

Accelerating Backup/Restore with the Virtual Tape Library Configuration That Fits Your Environment
Since VTL uses disk to back up data, it eliminates the media and mechanical errors that can occur with physical tapes and drives. And, because VTL can emulate more tape drives than a physical tape library really has, more backup streams can run simultaneo ...

Demystifying Data Deduplication: Choosing the Right Solution
Data deduplication has been described as “the next evolutionary step in backup technology.” Many vendors lay claim to the best data deduplication approach, leaving customers to face the difficulty of separating hype from reality. A number of k ...

Enabling Enterprise Tape Library Support for Microsoft DPM 2007 Using FalconStor VTL
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 is designed to provide continuous data protection for Windows-based servers, with additional features for business-specific Microsoft workloads such as SQL Server, Exchange, and SharePoint. The in ...

FalconStor VirtualTape Library - ESG Lab validation report
ESG has done extensive research on the data protection market, surveying and interviewing more than 220 IT managers, and focusing on their tape backup/recovery solutions and disk-to-disk (D2D) backup. ESG found that most customers were unhappy with their ...

HP StorageWorks Enterprise Backup Solution with HP OpenView Storage Data Protector and FalconStor VirtualTape Library Solution
Using the FalconStor VirtualTape Library Solution enables HP OpenView Storage Data Protector to transfer data to/from disk-based virtual tape at ultra high speeds, eliminates media/mechanical failure during backup/restore operations, and enables backup se ...

Optimizing IBM® Tivoli® Storage Manager Environments with FalconStor® VTL
Tivoli´s progressive backup methodology requires a large quantity of tapes to maintain data changes and this data can be dispersed amongst multiple tapes. Depending upon the length of time backups have been running using TSM, the data needed to resto ...

Optimizing Veritas® NetBackup® Environments with FalconStor® VTL
Veritas NetBackup is a highly flexible and scalable solution that provides the ability to fully manage storage resources in smaller homogeneous environments, as well as larger heterogeneous environments. With the concurrent implementation of FalconStor ...

The New Generation of Deduplication Technology Offers Clustered Architecture and Linear Performance Aggregation
This white paper explains how FalconStor® VTL with SIR reduces storage and replication bandwidth requirements with unique features such as clustered architecture and linear performance aggregation, setting the stage for "green" storage in data protect ...

Continuous Data Protector (CDP)

Protecting Your Business with HP ProLiant Data Protection Storage Servers Powered by FalconStor® Essentials for DPM and Microsoft® Data Protection Manager 2006
This paper gives specific guidance on integrating HP ProLiant Data Protection Storage Servers, FalconStor® Essentials for DPM, including iSCSI Storage Server and DiskSafe™ with Microsoft® System Center Data Protection Manager 2006 (DPM). It ...

Continuous Backup and Assured Recovery for SMBs: Focus on Microsoft® Exchange
For many small and medium businesses data protection is an immediate and growing challenge. A company´s data - email, customer lists, financial transactions and database information - is the business. Once a day backup to tape combined with all the t ...

Disaster Recovery with IPStor
FalconStor's IPStor storage infrastructure software delivers unprecedented flexibility in creating reliable and efficient disaster recovery environments. Read how IPStor's high-speed Replication option delivers fast remote data synchronization and enables ...

Disk-based Backup and Restore - Reaching the Next Level
This paper outlines conventional disk-based backup and restore methods and the paradigm shift needed to keep up with escalating data growth, shrinking backup windows, overburdened IT Administrators, and overtaxed IT budgets. This paper also details how Fa ...

Fibre Channel Security
Managing a storage area network not only involves providing highly-available data access and optimal performance, it is essential that all data on the SAN be completely secure at all times. Read how IPStor can enhance your Fibre Channel SAN, providing tot ...

Holistic and Efficient Protection for Oracle Databases with FalconStor CDP
In an enterprise Oracle environment, FalconStor CDP optimizes application and data availability as well as storage management capabilities. This paper explains how FalconStor CDP delivers an enhanced backup, restore, and recovery regime that protects agai ...

Microscan Deduplication Minimizes Replication Bandwidth and Storage Requirements
MicroScan is an integral part of the FalconStor suite of products including Continuous Data Protection (CDP), Continuous Data Replication (CDR), FileSafe host-based backup software, and DiskSafe hostbased CDP software. FalconStor CDP and CDR with MicroSca ...

On-Demand Replication with IPStor
This document describes an alternative rapid-deployment method of IPStor that facilitates on-demand remote replication of data. It is ideal for those storage administrators who would like to take advantage of IPStor software´s ability to perform remo ...

Optimizing Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery Capabilities for Lotus Notes/Domino
FalconStor´s solution for Lotus Notes/Domino delivers rapid, reliable, quality backup, restore, and recovery associated with routine and unplanned events, minimizing downtime, maximizing availability, streamlining storage administration, and reducing ...

Optimizing Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery Capabilities for Microsoft Exchange
FalconStor's solution for Microsoft Exchange delivers rapid, reliable, quality backup, restore, and recovery associated with routine and unplanned events, minimizing downtime, maximizing availability, streamlining storage administration, and reducing asso ...

Optimizing Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery Capabilities for Microsoft SQL
FalconStor´s solution for Microsoft SQL Server delivers rapid, reliable, quality backup, restore, and recovery associated with routine and unplanned events, minimizing downtime, maximizing availability, streamlining storage administration, and reduci ...

Optimizing Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery Capabilities for Oracle
FalconStor Software´s Solution for Oracle delivers rapid, reliable, quality backup, restore, and recovery associated with routine and unplanned events, minimizing downtime, maximizing availability, streamlining storage administration, and reducing as ...

Strategies for Accelerated Backup and Immediate Recovery: Going Beyond Traditional Backup Methods
In a world where the backup window has shrunk to virtually nil, and downtime is not an option, three things are crucial to enterprise survival: super-fast non-impact online backup; rapid, if not immediate, recovery, and a comprehensive backup plan that ad ...

Superior Resiliency, Availability, and Performance with IPStor DynaPath
This white paper explains the ways in which IPStor´s DynaPath Agent addresses demands for higher storage system resiliency, availability, and performance by eliminating points of failure, increasing performance, and helping to balance I/O workloads. ...

The High Scalability of the IPStor Solution
This white paper details the ways in which IPStor´s architecture is inherently highly scalable and how load balancing can be implemented to enhance data performance. ...

Network Storage Server (NSS)

Heterogeneous Midrange Storage with Local Mirroring and Remote IP Replication
(White paper written by Storage Networking Industry Association) One of the visible problems in the storage industry today is the lack of interoperability in environments using ...

IPStor Capacity-on-Demand Agent Automatically Eliminates Out-of-Space Downtime
This white paper addresses the ways in which the IPStor Capacity-on-Demand Agent solves the need for continuous storage availability by automatically preventing downtime incidents caused by out-of-space conditions. ...

Optimizing Blade Environments with IPStor
FalconStor´s IPStor software is the first solution to deliver storage pooling and storage services for blade servers, overcoming current limitations in blade technology and resulting in extremely manageable, secure data environments combining ultra-h ...

Optimizing Novell® NetWare Environments with IPStor
By combining IPStor´s storage pooling and managed services capabilities with NetWare´s powerful, open Internet software platform, IT managers can now deploy a complete solution, delivering ease of use, robust performance, data redundancy, and ex ...

Optimizing Oracle® Environments with IPStor
Oracle is a mission-critical tool; downtime is not acceptable. FalconStor provides a wealth of tools to make your Oracle database more resilient, much easier to manage, and more efficient. IPStor's storage services ease Oracle administrators´ daily t ...

Overcoming the Challenges of Traditional Storage Management Methods in Database Environments
The IT community has indicated that the primary challenges associated with SAN-based storage management are: inability to dynamically manage storage growth, especially in database environments; a rigid and inappropriate one-size-fits-all approach to stora ...

Replicate with Integrity: Protecting VMware Data to Ensure Fast Recovery, Business Continuity
As organizations increasingly adopt virtualization, they have begun to explore the notion of replicating to another virtualization server as a means of data protection. This appears to be a simpler, cost-efficient alternative to using traditional physical ...

The Value of Storage Virtualization
"Virtualization" has become a buzzword in technology circles lately, but what exactly it is—and what it is not—have been variously and vaguely defined. This white paper addresses the specific topic of storage virtualization. Presented within a ...

Using IPStor for Storage Sharing in Metro Area Networks
Data is growing faster than most companies can handle, and at the same time they often lack the in-house expertise needed to migrate to the kind of dedicated storage network that can resolve their storage predicament. IPStor´s high-value storage serv ...

Using IPStor to Build an End-to-End IP-Based Network Storage Infrastructure
FalconStor´s IPStor software and its underlying technologies help today´s enterprises build an ROI model that demonstrates the enormous cost savings an organization can realize by deploying this technology. ...

Protecting Your Business with HP ProLiant Data Protection Storage Servers Powered by FalconStor® Essentials for DPM and Microsoft® Data Protection Manager 2006
This paper gives specific guidance on integrating HP ProLiant Data Protection Storage Servers, FalconStor® Essentials for DPM, including iSCSI Storage Server and DiskSafe™ with Microsoft® System Center Data Protection Manager 2006 (DPM). It ...

Fibre Channel Security
Managing a storage area network not only involves providing highly-available data access and optimal performance, it is essential that all data on the SAN be completely secure at all times. Read how IPStor can enhance your Fibre Channel SAN, providing tot ...

Microscan Deduplication Minimizes Replication Bandwidth and Storage Requirements
MicroScan is an integral part of the FalconStor suite of products including Continuous Data Protection (CDP), Continuous Data Replication (CDR), FileSafe host-based backup software, and DiskSafe hostbased CDP software. FalconStor CDP and CDR with MicroSca ...

On-Demand Replication with IPStor
This document describes an alternative rapid-deployment method of IPStor that facilitates on-demand remote replication of data. It is ideal for those storage administrators who would like to take advantage of IPStor software´s ability to perform remo ...

The High Scalability of the IPStor Solution
This white paper details the ways in which IPStor´s architecture is inherently highly scalable and how load balancing can be implemented to enhance data performance. ...

Misc

FalconStor IPStor Write Once Read Many - ESG Lab validation report
Compliance is altering the landscape of businesses in every industry. Companies know that they must address compliance and are faced with the challenge of determining the best methodology, what steps to take first, and which vendors to trust. This ESG Lab ...

Meeting Regulatory Compliance Requirements with FalconStor® WORMLock®
Public corporations and many industries are facing increasing regulatory pressures pertaining to data retention. As the demand for companies to comply with regulatory requirements grows, so does the demand for WORM (write-once-read-many) storage. FalconSt ...

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