Many IT environments worldwide benefit from the business continuity and performance optimization that FalconStor´s products deliver. The following is a sampling of some of FalconStor´s customers, representing a variety of industries and vertical markets:
FalconStor Customer, Chris Watkis from Grey Healthcare Group, wins Best Practices in Storage Award
Chris Watkis, IT Director of Grey Healthcare Group wins the Best Practices in Storage Award at the 2008 Tech Forum Conference.Grey Healthcare Group, one of the world's top five healthcare communications companies, leverages FalconStor VTL with Deduplication to improve backup and recovery performance, optimize their storage environment, and strengthen their data security.
CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) is the global leader in real estate services offering strategic advice and execution for property sales and leasing; corporate services; property, facilities, and project management; mortgage banking; appraisal and valuation; development services; investment management; and research and consulting. Each year it completes thousands of successful assignments for clients from a full gamut of vertical industries. Such volume creates market knowledge that allows the company to seize opportunities, speed business processes, and create the most thorough, precise picture of global commercial real estate conditions and trends. Every day, in markets around the globe, CBRE applies insight, experience, intelligence, and resources to help its clients make informed real estate decisions.
Commerzbank is Germany's second largest bank and represents four entities in Luxemburg: Commerzbank International S.A. (Luxemburg), Commerzbank AG filial Luxemburg, Cominvest Asset Management S.A., and Erste Europäische Pfandbrief und Kommunalkreditbank AG Luxemburg. The CB Lux Group Services department offers IT services to 700 users throughout offices in Luxemburg, Amsterdam, Brussels, and Paris. The organization will soon service Madrid, Milan, and Johannesburg as well.
With FalconStor VTL Storage Appliances, Deli XL has reduced backup overhead,
minimized the backup window, and improved the backup of open systems and IBM
Power Series while deduplicating data throughout the company's system.
Grey Healthcare Group leverages FalconStor VTL with deduplication to improve backup and recovery performance, optimize storage assets, and strengthen data security.
FalconStor VTL with integrated deduplication enables this international manufacturer of automobile parts to save storage space and associated energy and costs. In addition, it ensures high data availability and minimizes the backup window.
FalconStor solutions protect data, including enabling storage provisioning while building clusters for Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VM), to simplify and streamline storage management.
Korea East-West Power Co., Ltd. (EWP) was one of five power producers spun off from Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) in 2001 as part of a governmental restructuring plan of the domestic power industry. EWP generates electrical power at six locations across the country, and its installed capacity totals 9,500 megawatts. Two new 1,000-megawatt plants are under construction at a Dangjin location as well.
KyLinTV, Inc. delivers exclusive live television programming and on-demand movies from China to any television set in the world using advanced IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) technology. KyLinTV was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Plainview, NY.
After evaluating its current backup and recovery procedures, one of the world's leading providers of communications services, concluded that they needed to maximize the efficiency and protection of data during their backup and recovery process. While needing a faster and centralized backup process, the company did not want to undertake a complete overhaul of its existing practices. The VTL Appliance answered the call for cost effective and efficient data protection for this multi-billion communications services provider. Using disk to emulate tape, the firm's IT staff are taking advantage of the speed of disk storage without changing the tape management procedures they already understand. With reduced operating costs and a quick return on investment, FalconStor delivered on the company's specific storage requirements efficiently and economically.
One of the world's largest providers of financial services and one of the largest mutual fund companies in the United States, this firm found that completing a backup up of their servers every night was a problem while potential downtime and management of the various storage devices challenged IT resources and required constant attention. The company needed help with these storage issues and was open to any technology that met their requirements-supporting faster backup without incurring any downtime. After implementing FalconStor´s VTL Appliance, the company significantly accelerated its backup traffic and greatly improved the success rate of its backup operations. In addition, with lower administrative costs, the company expects to save $80,000 - $100,000 per data center, per year.
International finance and insurance provider uses FalconStor VTL to overcome the challenges of tape backup, improving backup performance and reducing storage overhead.
Mennonite Mutual Aid (MMA), headquartered in Goshen, IN, helps members of the Mennonite Church denomination to integrate their finances with faith values by providing a range of financial and insurance products. Offering its members insurance, banking, investments, and financial advice, MMA serves both individuals and affiliated organizations.
This Midwestern school district has embraced technology to improve its procedures and to facilitate the operation of the school district at the very highest level. Applications in need of effective data protection for the school district include email, the virtual high school program, and the automated call back system. The designated backup window to support the school district´s IT infrastructure proved inadequate for task completion. Accelerating the backup and recovery processes for 60+ application servers and 150 remote sites can seem to be a formidable challenge, but the VTL Appliance easily tackled the data protection task. With their business continuance issue of backup and restore satisfactorily addressed, the school district can focus on using technology to keep themselves ahead of the education pack.
SaskPower, the main supplier of electricity to the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, enjoys smaller backup windows, faster backup performance, and improved data efficiency via the synergy between FalconStor VTL with integrated deduplication and Symantec OpenStorage (OST).
Tunghai University is one of Taiwan´s most progressive learning institutions, encompassing six colleges and over 15,000 students. They are using FalconStor VirtualTape Library (VTL) and IPStor to quickly and efficiently back up all of its critical data. Since implementing the solutions, they have experienced a drastic reduction in the time and effort required to perform backups, and are secure in the knowledge that their data is protected from disaster.
The "Compagnie Grand-Ducale d'Électricité du Luxembourg", commonly known as Cegedel, was founded in 1928. The mission of the Luxembourg-based company is to procure, transport, and distribute electricity within Luxembourg reliably and at competitive prices. Cegedel covers nearly 70% of the country's electricity needs. Approximately 500 people are working for Cegedel and Cegedel Net, the grid operator.
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