FalconStor Updates Migration, Continuity, and Protection-Recovery Software

FalconStor Software, Inc. announced product updates to its Migration, Continuity, and Protection-Recovery solutions.

Highlights include additional migration support for service providers and cloud-ready data centers, encryption at rest technology, and 195% improved data recovery speed compared to the previous version.

Service providers and cloud-ready environments can leverage the benefits of the technology installed on the latest blade platforms from Dell, while utilizing faster Xeon processors and Qlogic converged network adapters for a smaller data center footprint. This update allows customers and service providers to deploy solutions in an optimized and cloud-ready data center.

“The biggest challenge many organizations face when adopting cloud is migrating their data from its existing location to the new infrastructure. We’re focused on expanding our technology capabilities and partners to enable more users to adopt private clouds,” said Gary Quinn, president and CEO, FalconStor. “FalconStor leverages a component of its optimized data services, Intelligent Abstraction, which enables data to move from an existing storage device onto a cloud infrastructure seamlessly and transparently to the customer.“

As part of the dedupe solution update, the company has introduced encryption at rest technology to provide high level of security for data protection. For environments that have strict security requirements or are required to comply with government regulations, this technology provides the ability to encrypt all data being sent to virtual tape. Data is deduplicated and encrypted as it is stored on disk. The encryption at rest offering will be provided free of charge, and is available for all new installations.

“We’re committed to consistently updating products with features and functionality that our customer base requires. For organizations with highly sensitive data, especially the federal government, this feature ensures compliance with regulatory and industry security requirements,” added Quinn.

Additional product updates:

Restore speeds of up to 16TB/hr, a 195% improvement compared to the previous version, helping avoid costly downtime.
Database and application support list expanded to include Windows 2012R2, Hyper-V 201R2 Clusters, and SQL Server 2014 database.
Functionality that allows users to choose which storage and protection features participate in the stretch cluster configuration; reducing the storage and implementation costs of providing HA for applications and servers.
Snapshot groups can create simultaneous snapshots of up to 256 virtual devices, to increase the volume of data that can be protected simultaneously, reduce the number of backup jobs, and further reduce recovery times.
Improved management and reporting capabilities for Protection-Recovery: including performance monitoring, disk usage reports, and multi-select features. Users can monitor the load and performance of ports, LUNs, devices, and snapshots, in either real-time or historical views, right from the centralized administration console.
The dedupe console provides support for the Chinese language.

“All of these upgrades contribute to our mission of providing customers freedom. Adding to our supported technology list gives customers the peace of mind to update technology without the fear of lock-in or lack of support. Reduced recovery times, expanded reporting, and simpler management all contribute to giving our customers the freedom to manage their data how they want,” concluded Quinn.

The Optimized Backup and Deduplication Solution 8.1 and the Migration, Continuity, Protection and Recovery 7.7 product updates, as outlined above, are available since May 29, 2014.

The solutions can be purchased as software, as an integrated appliance, or as a gateway using existing storage.

Software only MSRP starts at:

Optimized Backup and Deduplication 8.1 software – $ 24,161 – Inclusive of 12TB of capacity and 3 years of maintenance and upgrades

Continuous Data Protector 7.7 and Network Storage Server 7.7 software – $18,524 inclusive of 10TB of capacity and 3 years of maintenance and upgrades