3PAR and FalconStor Team Up to Provide a Consolidated Utility Virtual Tape Library

Designed to take advantage of 3PAR’s technology leadership in multi-tier, utility storage with their InServ Storage Server and FalconStor’s leadership in backup/recovery with its Virtual-Tape Library (VTL) software, the resulting union has produced a solution that enables users to scale and consolidate their storage requirements on a single platform.

Enterprise Shops Still Opting for VTLs As their Preferred Deduplication Target

FalconStor VTL offers the deduplication capabilities and support that enterprises seek and provides a road map and platform that not only meets an organization's needs Day One but can be grown and adapted as an organization's backup infrastructure evolves.

FalconStor Virtual Tape Library (VTL) and Deduplication Performance

Virtual tape libraries (VTL) are a key technology that can save a considerable amount of time and storage capacity in the data center by utilizing disk storage that presents itself as a tape library solution. VTLs typically work seamlessly with enterprise backup software and help reduce the amount of time backup operations consume. VTL solutions often bring compression, single-instance store and data deduplication functions that help reduce the total amount of storage capacity required for backup and related activities. VTLs can make a direct positive impact on the backup window as well as recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO).

Overview of FalconStor Virtual Tape Library Appliance

The FalconStor Virtual Tape Library resides on a SAN (either iSCSI or Fibre Channel, and can be configured to both), and provisions virtual tape devices/libraries to multiple hosts. The VTL can emulate industry standard tape drives and libraries. A site’s investment in existing backup and recovery software is preserved, and no changes to existing IT room procedures are required. Installation is a quick 3-step process...

FalconStor Addresses Top Deduplication Criteria

There are many facets of deduplication solutions to consider prior to deployment. FalconStor VTL with deduplication delivers proof points for end-users’ top purchasing criteria.

FalconStor VTL Hyper-Accelerates Backup

Even with the addition of a virtual tape library (VTL) solution to the backup environment, backup performance bottlenecks caused by inefficiencies on the host side of the backup process remain a challenge. This can now be addressed with an add-on to FalconStor VTL that accelerates backups four- to eight-fold and reduces impact on production servers —effectively eliminating the backup window.

MAGIC QUADRANT FOR ENTERPRISE DISK-BASED BACKUP/RECOVERY

FalconStor positioned in the Visionaries quadrant.

FalconStor VTL OpenStorage Option Simplifies Disk Backup

FalconStor Software's new option on its virtual tape libraries to support Symantec's NetBackup OpenStorage application programming interface offers better integration for NetBackup environments.

Reducing Costs and Creating a More Secure IT Environment with a Holistic Approach to Data Protection

IDC interviewed eight FalconStor customers that had deployed at least one or a combination of the following FalconStor storage management solutions: Virtual Tape Library (VTL), Network Storage Server (NSS), and Continuous Data Protector (CDP). All customers reported high levels of satisfaction with and enjoyed considerable benefits from the FalconStor solutions, including cost reductions, greater system availability, and increased staff productivity.

FalconStor Heats Up VTL Deduplication and the Data Deduplication War

In these difficult economic times, vendors have to do two things: 1) show prospective customers that spending scarce budget dollars on a vendor’s products is economically justifiable and 2) show why a vendor’s products should be preferred to those of its competitors.

FalconStor Provides Data Protection for VMware

There is a strong case for using virtualization to consolidate both server and storage resources, and for good reason. The benefits of server and storage consolidation are clear. The utilization of physical resources is greatly improved, leading to long-term cost savings and the simplification of IT administrative tasks. A side benefit is that reductions in an IT infrastructure footprint can have green benefits, such as reductions in power cooling requirements.

FalconStor and Recovery Management

Continuous data protection (CDP) as a technology class, continuously saves every change made to protected data. Writes are split between primary storage and CDP disk, which captures changes and stores them for any-point-in-time recovery. Snapshot technology also has a vital part to play in CDP. FalconStor Continuous Data Protector fits firmly into this class. In concert with additional FalconStor capabilities, FalconStor CDP presents a full slate of fully integrated data protection capabilities.

The FalconStor VTL Storage Appliance with Data Deduplication

In enterprises faced with high data growth rates and shrinking backup windows, virtual tape library (VTL) solutions offer a quick fix that can be easily integrated into existing data protection processes.

Product Analysis Report FalconStor VTL and Dedupe

This report is an independent analysis of the FalconStor product and was sponsored by TruthInIT.com, not by FalconStor or a competitor of FalconStor. The analysis in this report is based on interviews with FalconStor, their customers, and other industry experts.

Virtualization Review: FalconStor Network Storage Server does far more than virtualize and serve up storage

"...Deployment, configuration, provisioning and protecting volumes; creating and recovering snapshots; and the FalconStor CDP solution all stand out. I also like that the product can integrate with third party data-protection software....The FalconStor NSS is a solid platform that makes presenting several back-end storage arrays—even from different vendors—to servers as a single cohesive set of storage resources easy to do. The physical and virtual FalconStor NSS appliances perform well, and are quick to deploy and easy to manage..."

Corporate Server Virtualization Initiatives Demand A More Complete Storage Virtualization Solution

Using the FalconStor® Network Storage Server (NSS) software as the foundation for a networked storage infrastructure, IT can expand upon today’s server virtualization initiatives to deliver a broader virtualization strategy that includes virtualizing an organization’s current and new storage assets without compromising on enterprise requirements.

FalconStor Enables Virtual SANs for VMware

FalconStor has packaged its storage virtualization software as a VMware virtual appliance. By transforming direct-attached storage into an iSCSI virtual SAN, FalconStor is not only enabling end-users’ server virtualization environments to take advantage of VMware business continuity and high availability features, but is also creating a cost-effective server and storage virtualization environment likely to influence VMware sales.

MAGIC QUADRANT FOR ENTERPRISE DISK-BASED BACKUP/RECOVERY

FalconStor positioned in the Visionaries quadrant.

Reducing Costs and Creating a More Secure IT Environment with a Holistic Approach to Data Protection

IDC interviewed eight FalconStor customers that had deployed at least one or a combination of the following FalconStor storage management solutions: Virtual Tape Library (VTL), Network Storage Server (NSS), and Continuous Data Protector (CDP). All customers reported high levels of satisfaction with and enjoyed considerable benefits from the FalconStor solutions, including cost reductions, greater system availability, and increased staff productivity.

FalconStor Provides Data Protection for VMware

There is a strong case for using virtualization to consolidate both server and storage resources, and for good reason. The benefits of server and storage consolidation are clear. The utilization of physical resources is greatly improved, leading to long-term cost savings and the simplification of IT administrative tasks. A side benefit is that reductions in an IT infrastructure footprint can have green benefits, such as reductions in power cooling requirements.

Achieve Near-Real Time Backup and Recovery With Near-Zero Ongoing Administrative Effort

The Role of FalconStor® Continuous Data Protector in Delivering an Enterprise Disk-based Backup Architecture

FalconStor Takes “Virtual” One Step Further Introduces CDP Virtual Appliance

MAGIC QUADRANT FOR ENTERPRISE DISK-BASED BACKUP/RECOVERY

FalconStor positioned in the Visionaries quadrant.

Reducing Costs and Creating a More Secure IT Environment with a Holistic Approach to Data Protection

IDC interviewed eight FalconStor customers that had deployed at least one or a combination of the following FalconStor storage management solutions: Virtual Tape Library (VTL), Network Storage Server (NSS), and Continuous Data Protector (CDP). All customers reported high levels of satisfaction with and enjoyed considerable benefits from the FalconStor solutions, including cost reductions, greater system availability, and increased staff productivity.

FalconStor Provides Data Protection for VMware

There is a strong case for using virtualization to consolidate both server and storage resources, and for good reason. The benefits of server and storage consolidation are clear. The utilization of physical resources is greatly improved, leading to long-term cost savings and the simplification of IT administrative tasks. A side benefit is that reductions in an IT infrastructure footprint can have green benefits, such as reductions in power cooling requirements

Enabling comprehensive data protection for VMware environments using FalconStor Software solutions

FalconStor and Recovery Management

Continuous data protection (CDP) as a technology class, continuously saves every change made to protected data. Writes are split between primary storage and CDP disk, which captures changes and stores them for any-point-in-time recovery. Snapshot technology also has a vital part to play in CDP. FalconStor Continuous Data Protector fits firmly into this class. In concert with additional FalconStor capabilities, FalconStor CDP presents a full slate of fully integrated data protection capabilities.

FalconStor Continuous Data Protector Solution Profile

FalconStor Continuous Data Protector enables fully integrated continuous protection in the data center, as well as at remote recovery sites. The result is continuous data, application and system availability for critical systems at an exceptionally favorable cost.

FalconStor Introduces Virtual CDP Appliance

FalconStor has introduced Virtual Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Appliance for virtualized environments in the SMB market. FalconStor's Virtual CDP Appliance provides disk-based backup and disaster recovery for both Virtual Machines (VMs) and physical servers. FalconStor leveraged its flagship IPStor technology to develop the software appliance for a market hungry for enterprise level data protection features at a low cost.

Nexsan and FalconStor Team for High Performance, Operationally Efficient Disk-based Backup

Disk-based backup, deduplication, and MAID are three of the most talked about technologies in the storage industry—each is so popular that organizations often purchase them individually just to see the capabilities they can bring to their environments. Now, all three are available in Nexsan's DeDupe SG—an integrated system from Nexsan and FalconStor that promises to optimize almost any backup environment.

MAGIC QUADRANT FOR ENTERPRISE DISK-BASED BACKUP/RECOVERY

FalconStor positioned in the Visionaries quadrant.

Reducing Costs and Creating a More Secure IT Environment with a Holistic Approach to Data Protection

IDC interviewed eight FalconStor customers that had deployed at least one or a combination of the following FalconStor storage management solutions: Virtual Tape Library (VTL), Network Storage Server (NSS), and Continuous Data Protector (CDP). All customers reported high levels of satisfaction with and enjoyed considerable benefits from the FalconStor solutions, including cost reductions, greater system availability, and increased staff productivity.

InfoWorld review: Data deduplication appliances

Data deduplication appliances from FalconStor, NetApp, and Spectra Logic provide excellent data reduction for production storage, disk-based backups, and virtual tape.

FalconStor FDS SA101

FalconStor’s latest FDS SA101 data deduplication appliance has a range of unusual data reduction features.