New FalconStor Customers Deploying VMware Virtualization

FalconStor Software, Inc. announced that companies that are deploying virtualization infrastructures based on VMware are implementing FalconStor’s data protection solutions for high availability and disaster recovery (DR) of business-critical applications. With FalconStor solutions, new customers like Rug Doctor, 3t Systems, Alea North America Insurance Company, Illinois Math & Science Academy and Domino North America can enable fully virtualized server and storage infrastructures with high availability while saving money on VMware deployments.

Server virtualization has become the technology that allows IT to efficiently use resources; however, it has created challenges and opportunities for data backup and disaster recovery. FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS) and FalconStor Continuous Data Protector (CDP) help reduce VMware management costs, enhance virtual machine mobility and protect data to ensure availability and rapid recovery.

Additionally, the following benefits can be realized:

• Achieving ‘five-nines’ availability of VMware infrastructure deployments with continuous data protection
• Enabling instant recovery of VMware servers and virtual machines
• Slashing DR costs with DR automation and physical-to-virtual replication and failover

Through the use of continuous data protection and storage virtualization, companies are able to focus on their business objectives without worrying about downtime. The FalconStor NSS solution helps reduce VMware management and supporting infrastructure costs and enhances virtual machine mobility. Additionally, FalconStor CDP software is made for companies seeking continuous availability of mission-critical applications and quick file and service recovery.

"Server virtualization is creating an opportunity for companies to improve infrastructure efficiency, enable data mobility and enhance overall business processes. Yet in order to fully capitalize on virtualization, companies need to protect their data to ensure continuous availability and rapid local and remote recovery," said Fadi Albatal, vice president of marketing for FalconStor Software. "FalconStor’s solutions address the data protection challenges introduced by server infrastructure consolidation by enabling full data protection and mobility of virtual machines and by unifying backup and DR processes."

As a certified partner of VMware, FalconStor has ensured that its data protection capabilities are compatible with VMware infrastructure.

"Traditional backup solutions do not effectively work within virtual environments. In implementing the next generation of data protection solutions in VMware environments for our customers, we turned to FalconStor CDP and NSS solutions," said Jim Ludlam, director of data center operations, 3t Systems. "With these solutions, 3t Systems not only has been able to offer better customer service, but also has created a new disaster recovery and storage offering. We are able to fulfill our mission of offering virtualized enterprise infrastructure solutions at SMB-level prices."

"We turned to virtualization to streamline our operation and reduce expense," said Michael Caruso, SVP, director of IT for Alea North America Insurance. "From working with our solutions provider, we decided to consolidate our three data centers into one location and migrate from physical servers to VMware virtual machines. With our virtualized disaster recovery solution, we have consistent up-to-date backup of all of our 50 terabytes of data and now have the peace of mind that we would be able to replicate and restore it at any given time."

"We are a loyal VMware shop, and it is comforting to know that FalconStor is a certified partner and has an extensive knowledge of the VMware platform. It is for this reason that we turned to continuous data protection to end our reliance on offsite tape storage and to be able to properly store and protect all of our data for North America. We are able to do lightning quick restoration in seconds rather than hours. Additionally, FalconStor’s ability to transmit data changes at the block level with low WAN bandwidth utilization was key in selecting their solution over other leading industry technologies," said Craig Morey, IT Manager, Domino North America.

"Our prior backup process required us to shut down file servers and e-mail systems for 24 to 48 hours. In relieving the painful backup process, we put in FalconStor CDP, as it would integrate seamlessly into our existing VMware and Lotus Notes environment. We loaded the software in minutes and were up and running in no time. Even with a predicted data growth of 30 percent each year, we feel FalconStor CDP will be able to seamlessly scale and effectively handle this increase," said Bill Ellis, manager of IT infrastructure at Rug Doctor.