Over the past 18 months, the data protection industry has made significant advancements in deduplication, specifically in terms of performance improvement, scalability, business continuity, mixed environments, and end-to-end solutions. At FalconStor, we’ve been busy leading these efforts, specifically by building on the foundation of our industry-leading FalconStor Virtual Tape Library (VTL) and its companion, FalconStor File-interface Deduplication System (FDS) to fuel our mission to deliver fast, efficient global deduplication for both block and file data. And we have succeeded with the availability of version 7 (v7) of the FalconStor data protection suite.
Our deduplication advancements over the past year and a half have come together to deliver FalconStor deduplication v7, leading the industry with an integrated solution that makes no change to a customer’s infrastructure, operations, or data protection solutions, yet leads the pace of the industry in:
FalconStor’s storage virtualization technology is a critical component of our efforts to transform the data center. The results of this transformation include optimized storage efficiency, consolidation of heterogeneous storage systems, native business continuity, and business application resilience via automated disaster recovery. While these individual features are known to most in the IT industry, it’s rare to find them all in one platform.
Well it’s no secret that the virtualization storm is changing the IT landscape, and I would say we are just starting. Everything Channel’s CRN magazine has identified the top 100 vendors in the virtualization space to help VARs more easily select the best virtualization products for their businesses – of course as an early player in the space, FalconStoris included on the list but that’s not where the news is. The news is that we have a top 100 virtualization list! And the question is how many vendors do we have in this space?
It’s actually very exiting to watch the dynamics in the space, and all the credit goes obviously to VMware for revitalizing the virtualization concept and bringing it more significantly to open systems. And, as I mentioned, it’s only the beginning. The abstraction and consolidation tools that were developed to optimize resource utilization are the drivers of a new era of computing that is focused on the importance of data and cross-platform collaboration.
At FalconStor we are building and delivering a service-oriented data protection model that integrates and leverages different virtualization technologies to simplify data protection processes and map IT to business operations.
You can check out CRN’s Virtualization 100 List in the May 23rd issue of CRN.
My father was a coder. As a member of the Apollo Mission, he worked with thousands of other dedicated engineers to safely place the first man on the moon. At the age of six, I watched my dad, his crew cut team of chain-smoking TRW programmers, and friends and neighbors huddle around our RCA television. When Apollo 11 touched down and Neil Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface, my father exclaimed, “The world will never be the same!”
Data levels are doubling every 18 months. This rapid increase should come as no surprise when nearly everything we do has a digital element associated with it. When we text, we contribute one of 173 billion text messages sent every year. When we buy something, there is a digital transaction; Walmart alone posts 1 million customer transactions per hour. When we check up on our friends, we are one of 600 million Facebook users browsing through 40 billion photos. Apple iTunes recently delivered its 10 billionth download. Amazon now sells 180 Kindle books for every 100 hard covers.
All of this data must live somewhere, and the challenges of storing, managing and protecting all of it is spurring new approaches and architectures. Today, all of us at FalconStor find ourselves in the right time, in the right place and among the right people to create those approaches and make the most of an unprecedented market opportunity.
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