FalconStor Enhances IBM Storage Ceph with Application Connectivity, Advanced Data Protection, and Enterprise Data Mobility

FalconStor Software, Inc. announces certification of both StorSafe and StorGuard with IBM Storage Ceph, accelerating customers’ ‘Journey to AI’ through improved data access, migration, and availability. The company’s StorSafe and StorGuard, deliver a suite of data and backup optimization, virtualization, and protection, from on-premises to hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. IBM Storage Ceph is a scale-out, software-defined unified storage solution designed to support data lakes for IBM watsonx.data and next-gen AI workloads. Together, these solutions provide enterprise application access, data migration, protection, and availability, enabling customers to harness their massive data stores to tackle previously unsolvable challenges using GenAI.

StorSafe Certified with Storage Ceph
IBM Corp. has certified StorSafe with Storage Ceph, IBM’s on-premises AI data lake offering, ensuring compatibility and full support by IBM. StorSafe is the only IBM-certified, sold, and supported solution for backup optimization with IBM Power Virtual Server, available via the IBM Cloud Catalog. Now, with certification for IBM Storage Ceph, customers can leverage both for an enterprise-class backup solution.

StorSafe integrates with any backup software on IBM Power (IBM i/AIX/Linux) or mixed heterogeneous OSs, utilizing advanced compression and patented block-level de-dupe to optimize backup and recovery operations while simplifying workload and data migrations. Storage Ceph object storage is supported as the tape archive export target for StorSafe, offering customers low-cost storage to archive historical backup data.

StorGuard Certified with Storage Ceph
The company has certified StorGuard with Storage Ceph, ensuring integration and full support by FalconStor. StorGuard offers storage virtualization, BC, HA, system failover, and data migration.

Key capabilities brought to Storage Ceph by StorGuard include:

• FC and iSCSI support enabling enterprise application connection to Storage Ceph
• Data mobility via migration from heterogeneous storage environments into Storage Ceph as well as into the cloud
• Data protection across hybrid and multi-cloud environments
• Fast, easy deployment and simplified management

Storage Ceph provides a way to build a data lakehouse for IBM watsonx.data and next-gen AI workloads. It is highly scalable, with no single point of failure, and can support petabytes of data and billions of objects. StorGuard enhances Storage Ceph’s capabilities by expanding enterprise application support, facilitating data migration from non-Ceph storage, and ensuring full data protection and high availability.

“StorGuard has been a critical component of our enterprise data protection strategy for many years,” said Stefan Teusch, deputy head, GWDG and UMG/G3-7 – infrastructure operations division, GWDG. “Certification of Ceph is an exciting and valuable addition as we think about the future storage, management, and use of massive amounts of data.”

Journey to AI
The firm’s StorSafe and StorGuard deliver enterprise-class solutions for Storage Ceph environments, including optimized data protection, workload migration, hybrid cloud backup and DR, ransomware recovery, storage virtualization, high availability, and failover capability. Together, they provide customers with the essential building blocks for developing and deploying strategic AI solutions. By integrating these technologies, FalconStor and IBM empower enterprises to effectively manage their data and unlock the full potential of AI-driven insights and innovation.