X-IO Resellers to Package and Sell FalconStor Network Storage Server

FalconStor Software, Inc. and X-IO Technologies (Xiotech Corporation) have signed a reseller agreement.

Effective immediately, the agreement allows X-IO’s global network of resellers to package and sell FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS). By combining X-IO’s Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) solutions with NSS, customers can achieve a flash-enabled performance, reliable, scalable storage solution that includes a suite of data protection and DR solutions.

Over the past few years, X-IO and FalconStor established a partnership, undergoing vigorous certification testing to ensure shared customers realize the benefits of the combined technology to design their storage infrastructure. This anouncement of a formal reseller agreement makes FalconStor the key storage virtualization provider for X-IO. The two solutions can now be purchased as a package with X-IO’s standard five-year warranty and backed by five years of support and service from FalconStor, including major version upgrades to the software.

Gary Quinn, CEO, FalconStor, said: “X-IO has proven to be a valuable technology partner to FalconStor over the years. We are excited to extend our relationship to further allow X-IO, FalconStor, our mutual partners, and thousands of customers to free themselves from vendor lock-in to support heterogeneous storage portfolios. Together, we deliver a scalable, highly available software solution that has proven to enable storage virtualization and BC in nearly any environment.“

With a foundation based on reliability, performance and scalability, ISE solutions optimize price and operational efficiency. Solutions focus on consistent and accelerated performance via both HDD drive based solutions and real-time tiered hybrid solutions with enterprise solid-state media and traditional HDD drives. X-IO’s ‘Zero Touch’ approach and five-year warranty reduce TCO – resulting in strong customer environmental credentials via low power and cooling requirements as opposed to alternate performance platforms.

FalconStor’s data protection solutions go beyond other storage management systems by optimizing and enabling storage virtualization, CDP, BC and data analysis within physical, virtual and heterogeneous environments in multiple locations. Businesses can deploy data protection and DR while creating a secondary storage repository for data mining and other uses without any impact on production storage.

Dave Ornstein, VP sales, X-IO, concluded: “Combining X-IO with FalconStor offers scalability with many options for high-performance and capacity combinations for customers and resellers globally. As part of the agreement X-IO will be offering the NSS software to its customers and providing installation plus first call support. The bundled solution will also include our five-year warranty, which ensures low cost zero touch as standard.“