FalconStor Delivers CDP to Landkreis Soltau-Fallingbostel
To protect VMware- and Microsoft Windows-based infrastructure
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on February 28, 2008 at 4:33 pmFalconStor Software, Inc. announced the
deployment of the FalconStor
Continuous Data Protector (CDP) Virtual
Appliance for VMware Virtual Infrastructure to provide data protection
for the heterogeneous VMware- and Microsoft Windows-based infrastructure
at Landkreis Soltau-Fallingbostel. Landkreis Soltau-Fallingbostel is the
municipal authority responsible for the administration of the
Soltau-Fallingbostel district of Lower Saxony, Germany.
The municipal authority invested in the FalconStor CDP Virtual Appliance
as part of a VMware server virtualization project. The FalconStor CDP
Virtual Appliance was deployed to provide an advanced disaster recovery
solution in the event of a system crash. A significant advantage of the
solution is its capability to recover data with a simple ‘point
and click’ procedure.
The FalconStor CDP Virtual Appliance provides reliable disaster
protection to Landkreis Soltau-Fallingbostel via the adaptive
replication of data to a secondary disaster recovery location. The
ability of FalconStor solutions to monitor and protect a heterogeneous
infrastructure is illustrated by the fact that the authority uses a
storage area network at the primary data centre and direct attached
storage at the disaster recovery site.
“We are pleased to provide the FalconStor CDP
Virtual Appliance with its Snapshot Agent and Time Mark®
options to Landkreis Soltau-Fallingbostel,”
said Danielle Gauthier, Vice President, Marketing, EMEA, for FalconStor. “The
solution offers the authority a level of data integrity not available in
conventional solutions, tightly integrating with its Microsoft file
system and IBM Lotus Notes database. Having the ability to stabilize
active applications enables the authority to back up 5TB of active data
with complete transactional and point-in-time integrity.”
Martin Michaelis, systems administrator at Landkreis
Soltau-Fallingbostel, said: “Our virtual
servers require the same level of data protection as physical ones;
having virtual servers doesn’t eliminate the
need to avoid service downtime. We were aware that FalconStor CDP
Virtual Appliance provides comprehensive data protection for VMware
environments and, for us, it delivers fast yet simple disaster recovery
and business continuity insurance."
“Since it installs as a virtual appliance,
the FalconStor solution is a no-risk option as well as a very
cost-efficient choice,” Mr. Michaelis added. “Our
users, in particular, appreciate its simplicity –
the new ability to restore data themselves is a welcome one.”
The integration was performed by FalconStor partner bios systemhaus GmbH.
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