Windows Server 2008 Certification for FalconStor

FalconStor Software, provider of TOTALLY Open
data protection solutions, announced that its suite of
Windows-based data protection and disaster recovery options have earned
Windows Server 2008 software certification. All FalconStor products are
deployed on the FalconStor
Network Storage Server (NSS), powered by FalconStor IPStor
software, to strengthen its storage capacity. FalconStor NSS provisions
virtual disks to hosts via Fibre Channel, iSCSI, or InfiniBand,
providing enterprise-class performance, compatibility, reliability, and
heterogeneous storage management. The FalconStor products are SAN-based
application-aware snapshot data protection solutions.

The Windows-based solutions allow users to gain fast email and database
recovery through best practice optimized recovery in any scenario. The
products offered by FalconStor, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, that
have been newly Certified for Windows Server 2008 include:

• FalconStor Message Recovery for Microsoft Exchange – Customers
  are able to recover individual email messages, mailboxes, mailbox
  databases, or entire Exchange server farms quickly and with no
  performance impact to servers or end-users, for continuous data
  protection and business application availability.
• FalconStor Snapshot Agents for Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SQL
  server – Customers are able to facilitate snapshot operations of
  Exchange messaging data and SQL server data with full transactional
  integrity. Working in conjunction with the full suite of capacity
  management and data availability and recovery services provided by
  IPStor technology, the integrated solution minimizes planned and
  unplanned interruption to email and database servers while providing
  snapshot-based data services such as asynchronous replication from
  data center to data center, near-line disk-based backup/recovery, fast
  database duplication via snapshot-copying, and
  full/incremental/differential block-level email database backup which
  assists in migration lab testing as well as production roll-back
  planning.
• DynaPath
  Agent – Performs Fibre Channel and/or iSCSI HBA transparent
  failover and fail-back services for the application server it is
  running. If an I/O path between storage and the application server
  fails, the DynaPath agent leverages Microsoft Multipath I/O
  technology, maintaining availability via intelligent re-routing of
  data.

"Specializing in protecting and providing fast recovery for Microsoft
centric applications for any SAN environment, FalconStor is at the
forefront of a strong partner community that is focused on developing
solutions that are Certified for Windows Server 2008," said Tony de
Freitas, director of Windows Server marketing at Microsoft. "FalconStor
has engineered their data and application protection and recovery agents
to take full advantage of the security and solid foundation of Windows
Server 2008. By certifying their data protection and disaster recovery
technology, FalconStor is helping customers deploy their solutions in
the Windows Server 2008 environment with confidence."

“The improvements in security, performance,
and manageability found in Windows Server 2008 will provide our
customers with better data integrity, higher data availability, and a
seamless data protection model going forward,”
said ReiJane Huai, CEO FalconStor Software, Inc. “We
certified our data protection and disaster recovery suite of solutions
for Windows Server 2008 to ensure our customers enjoy the full benefits
of server-based computing. The certification of our snapshot data
protection technology for Windows-based applications will allow users to
safely migrate their data to Windows Server 2008 on a roll forward and
roll back basis both in the pilot labs and in production without typical
migration risks.”

Windows Server 2008 Certification comprises approximately 100 test cases
that independently confirm an application’s
compliance with best practices for compatibility, security, reliability
and availability on the new platform. As a participant in the Microsoft
Early Access Program (EAP) for Windows Server 2008 Software
Certification, FalconStor’s Data Protection
and Disaster Recovery Solutions for Windows are some of more than 300
applications enrolled in the pre-certification program on the new
platform.

FalconStor Software, Inc.