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FalconStor and Virtual Iron Team Up

To streamline storage and server virtualization

FalconStor Software, Inc. and Virtual Iron
Software announced a global strategic alliance to offer
integrated storage and server virtualization solutions to maximize IT
productivity and business continuity for organizations of all sizes.
The combined solutions improve data center resource management by
increasing utilization of existing physical resources, optimizing
virtual infrastructure performance through real-time data migration,
and delivering more cost-effective and reliable high availability and
disaster recovery. The companies will collaborate on marketing, sales,
product integration and cross-support to OEM and reseller partners
worldwide.

“The combination of Virtual Iron and FalconStor delivers
comprehensive and easy to use virtual infrastructure and data
protection capabilities,
” said Mike Kelson, Technical Director at
Atlanta Technology Ltd., a UK-based hosted service provider. “Virtual
Iron´s LiveMigration provides transparent virtual machine mobility that
allows us to perform no-downtime maintenance. FalconStor´s equivalent
storage migration capabilities allow simple and seamless movement of
virtual machines between storage platforms. The combined efficiencies
and advantages translate directly into increased flexibility and better
performance for our customers.

The alliance between the companies leverages the entire suite of
Virtual Iron server virtualization and FalconStor data protection and
storage virtualization solutions without modification, providing a
three-pronged approach to creating a centralized virtual infrastructure
with integrated solutions for business continuity and disaster
recovery, backup optimization and storage virtualization.

The
FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS) and FalconStor Continuous
Data Protector (CDP) support both iSCSI and Fibre Channel storage and
have been certified on the latest release of Virtual Iron, Version 4.2.
The FalconStor solutions provide a number of unique capabilities for
the Virtual Iron platform including:

  • Storage Migration for Virtual Machines – Virtualization
    combined with built-in mirroring allows seamless migration between
    storage arrays without downtime.
  • Extended support for a wide range of SMB and enterprise-class storage arrays already certified by FalconStor.
  • Application-aware snapshot agents provide
    transactionally-consistent snapshots of data for Exchange, SQL,
    SharePoint, SAP, and Oracle running in virtual machines.
  • Thin provisioning for virtual machines maximizes disk space to optimize storage management within virtualized environments.


These capabilities allow Virtual Iron customers to take a
storage-vendor agnostic approach to virtualize and provision storage
resources for virtual machines. In addition to improving data center
resource utilization, the FalconStor software optimizes the management
of virtual infrastructure through real-time data migration,
application-centric delta snapshots, rapid data recovery and optimized
replication to support disaster recovery.

Virtual Iron´s unique storage architecture allows storage and server IT
users to fully exploit the value provided in storage servers provided
by their storage system vendors. Standard capabilities in FalconStor
software such as thin provisioning and application-aware snapshots can
be directly used with Virtual Iron, significantly improving storage
utilization and business continuity across any existing storage system
vendor array.

The server virtualization market is red hot and gaining rapid
adoption as organizations strive to achieve physical server
consolidation, maximize resource utilization and deploy disaster
recovery solutions,
” said Mark Bowker, Senior Analyst at Enterprise
Strategy Group. “In a recent survey of current and planned
virtualization users, ESG discovered the importance of networked
storage as 86% of the respondents that have implemented server
virtualization use some form of networked storage to support their
infrastructure requirements. The combination of capabilities from
Virtual Iron and FalconStor will help customers streamline virtual
infrastructure deployments, improve overall resource utilization and
implement robust business continuity solutions.

Virtual Iron provides easy-to-use, enterprise-class server
virtualization capabilities on a next-generation architecture. The
platform combines the latest version of the Xen open source hypervisor
with advanced virtualization services and policy-based automation
capabilities such as LiveMigrate for easy movement of workloads,
LiveRecovery for automated virtual machine failover, LiveCapacity for
dynamic workload balancing, and LiveSnapshot for hot backup and patch
management. These capabilities enable offloaded, space efficient and
no-downtime backups on live virtual machines running in production
environments. Virtual Iron also takes full advantage of the latest
hardware virtualization extensions from AMD and Intel to deliver near
native performance.

Our customers are asking for a complete solution for managing virtual
server and storage environments,
” said Greg Wolff, Area Vice President
of Product Marketing at MPC Computers. “Our new DataFRAME 2112 SAN
Appliance which is based on the FalconStor software platform combined
with our NetFRAME Server portfolio which is certified to run Virtual
Iron software, provides a complete data protection solution across both
physical and virtual systems. By adding FalconStor software and Virtual
Iron to our offerings, MPC is providing its customers with a level of
infrastructure management flexibility, protection and cost efficiency
not available from traditional physical server and storage
environments.

The combined FalconStor and Virtual Iron virtualization capabilities
fully optimize user business continuity goals by streamlining live
migration of virtual machine disks from one data storage system to
another,
” said Bernie Wu, Vice President of Business Development at
FalconStor. "FalconStor´s extensive experience in adding key data
protection and storage virtualization features to any existing storage
array investment provides Virtual Iron users immediate deployment
flexibility and value
.”

Independently, Virtual Iron and FalconStor anticipated
advanced data center applications driven by workload mobility and
policy-based automation to reduce the cost and complexity of data
center operations. We designed our next generation architectures
accordingly,
” said Mike Grandinetti, chief marketing officer at Virtual
Iron. “Our joint customers benefit from an integrated server
virtualization and storage virtualization solution that leverages
existing investments and doesn´t break existing practices.
"


FalconStor Software, Inc.

Virtual Iron Software, Inc.

MPC Computers

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