The Office National Interprofessionel des Grandes Cultures Chooses Falconstor

FalconStor Software, Inc. announced the deployment
of a Fibre Channel FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS), powered
by the FalconStor IPStor storage virtualization platform, at the
Office National Interprofessionel des Grandes Cultures (ONIGC).

The
FalconStor NSS solution, installed by FalconStor partner Astelis,
ensures that anticipated storage growth over the next five years can
be accommodated, providing ONIGC not only the necessary immediate data
protection snapshot services, but additionally a clear path to
deploying a disk-to-disk backup solution at a later date.

The increased need for storage capacity at ONIGC is being driven
primarily by a dramatic rise in the use of email, which is generating
a volume of messages that archiving can only partly offset. With the
organization’s use of email expected to grow significantly over the
next few years, ONIGC was determined that its new storage
infrastructure would be able to keep pace with the resulting growth in
data volume.

The new storage infrastructure at ONIGC is comprised of two EMC
CLARiiON CX300 networked storage systems, managed by a pair of
standard FalconStor NSS servers running Fibre Channel protocol in
active-active failover mode. This storage subsystem serves eight
Novell NetWare servers, to which the FalconStor NSS servers provide
synchronous mirroring and TimeMark snapshot services. These
advanced storage services protect ONIGC against storage device
failure, increase data availability, and deliver the ability to
instantly recover a single file or an entire volume back to a known
good point in time.

The FalconStor NSS solution has also helped to ease the provision
of additional storage as additional capacity is required. It enables
administrators to allocate, from a single, virtualized storage pool,
many storage volumes to be used by the heterogeneous servers.

Marc Blaise, Manager of the Open Systems Division, ONIGC said:
"Our task was to achieve scalability, security and high availability
of data in the enterprise, with a solution that is compatible with our
existing infrastructure. It also needed to be easy to manage and
compatible with our Novell NetWare and Novell GroupWise environments.
The FalconStor NSS solution gave us the exact advanced storage
services we needed, such as synchronous mirroring and snapshots, in
our heterogeneous environment."

FalconStor Software, Inc.