Seamless, Cost-Effective Data Protection For AIX Environments
June 24, 2025, Austin, TX – FalconStor Software, Inc., a leading innovator in data protection and backup optimization and Veeam® Technology Alliance Partner, today announced enhanced backup and recovery for Veeam Software customers running AIX on IBM Power systems, both on-premises and in IBM Power Virtual Server. This partnership offers the capabilities towards supporting a hybrid cloud journey to satisfy offsite repository requirements mandated by industry regulations. The combination of Veeam Data Platform and FalconStor StorSafe delivers a modern, enterprise-wide data resilience solution that protects both AIX and x86 environments. Veeam provides comprehensive backup and recovery across AIX and x86 platforms, while StorSafe serves as the protection storage for AIX, IBM i, and x86 systems. Together, they simplify data protection, strengthen cyber resilience, and reduce costs — all within a unified management environment.
Key Benefits of FalconStor StorSafe:
- Cost Efficiency: StorSafe achieves up to 90% data reduction through patented deduplication technology (9 U.S. patents) and compression for the Veeam AIX agent, significantly improving storage efficiency and reducing cloud costs.
- Optimized Backup Performance: StorSafe’s patented deduplication and compression technology reduces the amount of data that must be written to storage, thereby reducing the backup window required to complete Veeam backups of AIX workloads on IBM Power.
- Ransomware Protection: The combination of Veeam Data Platform and StorSafe can provide air-gapped and immutable backups in IBM Cloud Object Storage for AIX workloads, protecting against ransomware, cybersecurity threats, and insider attacks.
- Disaster Recovery: In combination with Veeam Data Platform’s fast and seamless disaster recovery with active backup copy between sites for business continuity, StorSafe reduces the cost for disaster recovery copies of AIX backups and virtual tapes.
- Simplified Cloud Migration: Supports on-premises AIX backups with cloud recovery, ensuring smooth migration of cloud-native workloads.
- Flexibility & Integration: Enhances existing Veeam environments with the ability to ingest data from backup servers, tape, file shares, NAS, Oracle, and SAP HANA while reducing overall storage costs.
Fully Vetted and Tested Solution
To ensure the highest level of reliability and performance, FalconStor has developed a reference architecture that validates the integration as a fully vetted, tested, and supported solution. Veeam contributed valuable insights and expertise from its field system engineers team to the development of this reference architecture.
The reference architecture provides:
✔ Best practices for installation and configuration of the Veeam AIX agent and StorSafe server
✔ Guidance on optimizing backup and recovery workflows
✔ Recommendations for ongoing management and scalability
This technical blueprint ensures that organizations leveraging Veeam Data Platform can seamlessly deploy and operate this FalconStor documented solution on the IBM Power platform with confidence, maximizing efficiency and resilience.
“FalconStor is committed to delivering innovative data protection solutions that simplify and optimize backup for enterprises,” said Todd Brooks, CEO, FalconStor. “As a Veeam Technology Alliance Partner, we provide a seamless and cost-effective way for AIX customers to modernize their backup strategy while ensuring security, efficiency, and scalability.”
Doris Conti, IBM VP of Power Product Management added, “This reference architecture implementation enables our IBM Power AIX customers to modernize their backups and easily migrate workload to IBM Power Virtual Server. FalconStor, together with Veeam, provides a cost-effective solution for our mutual customer base.”
The FalconStor solution leveraging Veeam Data Platform is available now, backed by the fully vetted reference architecture from FalconStor.
Want to learn more? Download the reference architecture, schedule a demo, or speak with an expert today. Visit www.falconstor.com or contact us for details.
About FalconStor
FalconStor Software, Inc. (OTC: FALC) is a trusted leader in data protection, enabling enterprises to modernize backup and archiving across hybrid environments. It’s StorSafe platform helps customers optimize storage usage, protect against ransomware, and streamline cloud adoption, especially in IBM ecosystems.