FalStor FreeStor With 250 Customers After One Year

FalconStor Software Inc. has enjoyed a response from enterprise customers, MSPs, and OEMs since first releasing its FreeStor software platform one year ago.

FreeStor manages the data of more than 250 customers including Nintendo Co., Ltd., Fujitsu Ltd, Volkswagen AG, and Hitachi Ltd, and organisations through MSP and OEM partners.

“The industry is moving toward storage environments built on commodity hardware and will continue to be differentiated by software and services. Technologies like the FreeStor platform are crucial at not only simplifying data management and protection but freeing the organisations from vendor-specific solutions and constraints,” said Lynda Stadtmueller, VP cloud computing services, Frost & Sullivan, Inc.. “Technology leadership that contributes to the on-going adoption of software-defined storage is welcomed by the market, and in particular by MSPs, CSPs and storage suppliers who need greater flexibility in designing modern storage solutions.“

FreeStor’s horizontal, heterogeneous software-defined storage platform helps these organisations attain maximum flexibility, operational efficiency, and economic value out of existing storage environments, future storage investments, and transition to paradigms like public cloud, hybrid cloud, as well as heterogeneous flash and disk storage. Cloud and MSPs in FalconStor’s ecosystem use FreeStor to deliver these benefits to their end users. FreeStor’s predictive analytics provides real-time and historical analytics across heterogeneous storage systems to better manage capacity, performance, and availability. Unified data services are also delivered across the entire storage infrastructure with always-on availability and continuity, enabling users to move, synchronize and protect data across virtual and physical storage platforms.

Since its debut only one year ago, FreeStor’s accomplishments include:

• Added predictive analytics across heterogeneous storage with real-time and over time insights from a single dashboard, regardless of storage vendor or location
• Developed cloud-connected Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) and DR-as-a-Service (DRaaS) offerings for more value to MSPs and cloud service providers without cloud vendor lock-in or added hardware and complexity
• Delivered integration with OpenStack, Oracle VM, and SAP HANA
• Hypervisor agnostic support for VMWare, Hyper-V, Xen, and KVM
• Total number of FreeStor customers in the first half of 2016 is up over 50% compared to all of 2015
• FreeStor capacity sold in 1H16 is 1,100% more than what was sold in all of 2015
• One of the top accounting firms is using FreeStor to deliver data protection, recovery, BC and data migration
• German utility service provider Stadtwerke Saarbrücken Netz AG deployed FreeStor to build its centres and data services offerings
• 15 worldwide MSPs use FreeStor to deliver top-tier services for their clients
• IT service provider LG CNS is using FreeStor to deliver Korea’s first enterprise DRaaS deployment with follow-the-sun availability
• Received nearly a dozen media and industry awards, including four Product of the Year awards
  

“FreeStor helps us to provide infrastructure services that support our business to provide the highest levels of availability and data security,” said Sandor Orban, technical lead infrastructure services, Sunrise Communications Group AG, a private telecommunications provider in Switzerland. “While the future is always changing, we know that FreeStor will be able to help us further optimise our environment, continuing the trend to consolidate and reduce costs without compromising our customer values.”

“Our customers in the three verticals we support, especially in finance, are looking for differentiators – ways to separate out the various MSPs and pick the one with the most critical technologies and varied support,” said Gabriel Enzo Gagliardi, CEO, Imptech SA, one of Latin America’s largest MSPs. “Our clients needed a solution that could promote better utilisation, reducing overall storage costs and migrate data seamlessly when the need arises. We felt the FreeStor platform could provide our customers with an intelligent and flexible technology layer that enables common, efficient and cost-effective storage services, and centralised management of storage resources across an organisation.“

“In an era of hardware commoditization, it can be difficult for end users to distinguish one product from another, so integration and partnerships are critical for demonstrating innovation and value,” said Yann Rolland, CEO, Synerway SARL, a vendor of storage appliances based in France. “FalconStor has developed a truly groundbreaking portfolio that transforms data centre operations and gives end users the unified and modernized approach to protection and recovery that enterprises want.“

“This past year has been one of remarkable success in both our technology development and the embrace of some very distinct market segments – enterprises, service providers, and hardware vendor partners – each of which have different requirements, yet each find FreeStor to be the best solution for modernising their storage environments,” said Gary Quinn, FalconStor president and CEO. “The introduction of FreeStor also signified a remarkable new shift or pivot point for the company, and while any progress comes with unique growing pains, I have confidence in our team and our vision for making enterprise storage more efficient and available, without regard to growing data volumes or architectural complexity. FreeStor is setting these users free.“

FreeStor is sold via subscription pricing to enable users to pay-as-they-grow, based on capacity, eliminating the unpredictability of capacity expansion and renewal costs often associated with traditional storage platforms. MSPs resell FreeStor as a branded service to their own clients or use FreeStor internally to manage client data across disparate systems and environments. OEMs integrate FreeStor, often private-labeled, to gain the competitive edge of a sophisticated and powerful storage management option than they could develop in-house.