FalconStor Signs With Innovative Solutions Consulting, MSP in Kansas City, MO

FalconStor Software Inc. signed Innovative Solutions Consulting Inc. (ISC) to be the first MSP partner in the US to sell FreeStor in 1TB increments.

This agreement expands the reach of the company’s converged, hardware-agnostic, SDS and data services platform to support organizations from the SMB community through the enterprise.

Based outside of Kansas City, MO, ISC provides IT products and services to carrier and enterprise organizations. The company offers a variety of services tailored to exceed its clients’ IT requirements, including managed, professional, cloud and IT procurement services. With more than 25 years of experience working with customers across a variety of industries, ISC prides itself on providing its clients with custom solutions offering elasticity and scalability to satisfy their future IT needs.

As a long-time reseller and integrator of FalconStor products, ISC sees FreeStor as a solution for its customers because it integrates the company’s suite of data management tools into a single product for a single, pay-as-you-grow price.

ISC CTO, Mardy Martin, believes the flexibility FreeStor offers over competitive point-solutions makes it well suited for overcoming limitations of vendor lock-in, forklift upgrades, and cloud-based security issues.

“FreeStor is an incredible opportunity for us to be able to offer a software-defined storage technology that will allow our customers to use a platform that has been recognized globally for its excellence,” said Martin. “FreeStor gives MSPs the ability to manage the product in their cloud infrastructure or the customer’s environment.  It gives us the flexibility to manage customers’ entire environment completely, or just a portion of it, or in being the one they call in a managed services support model. It resolves a real issue within the mid-market around the need to continually invest in additional equipment to maintain and grow their environments.  FreeStor eliminates the need for this by extending capabilities on existing hardware and by being the most open software-defined storage platform on the market today.“

FreeStor’s horizontal architecture unlocks storage opportunities, allowing IT managers, MSPs and CSPs to maximize efficiencies and lower costs while taking advantage of the public cloud, hybrid cloud, flash storage and SDS. FalconStor’s groundbreaking Intelligent Abstraction approach delivers access and unified data services across storage infrastructures without having to invest in new technology, or rip and replace existing platforms. Always-on availability and continuity keep businesses running while enabling them to move, synchronize and protect data across virtual and physical storage platforms.

“As we continue to expand the footprint of FreeStor throughout the world, we look at our MSP partners as the ideal ambassadors for advancing our message. There is no better way for organizations to gain greater efficiencies, reduced downtime, lower costs and improved simplicity from their IT infrastructures,” said Gary Quinn, FalconStor president and CEO.  “Innovative Solutions has the passion and experience for providing innovative technology to its customer base. We are pleased to partner with them as the first MSP in the U.S. to offer FreeStor in as small as 1TB increments.“