FalconStor and Voltaire Chosen by Xasax

FalconStor Software, Inc. has been chosen to enable Xasax Corporation to offer
ultra-low latency financial market data to active trader and financial
services organizations. The FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS),
powered by the FalconStor IPStor platform, provides storage
virtualization and provisioning services, via industry standard iSCSI
protocol, over a 20 GB/s InfiniBand storage area network, supplied by
Voltaire (NASDAQ: VOLT).

Xasax, whose clients include active traders, hedge funds, and other
financial service organizations, provides market data, order routing,
entitlement solutions and proximity hosting services. The blended
FalconStor, Xasax and Voltaire technologies give traders access to high
speed order execution; large, high-performance data stores; and trade
management capabilities that were previously unavailable to the middle
market.

FalconStor NSS removes the complexity and expense from storage
management by seamlessly providing SAN and NAS infrastructure and
advanced enterprise class storage services for both networked and
direct attached storage under a unified management umbrella across
Fiber Channel and IP/iSCSI.

“We are pleased to witness Xasax’s ultra-low latency financial
service network being powered by the world’s fastest iSCSI
implementation based on iSER”, said Bernie Wu, Vice President of
Business Development of FalconStor. “Besides exemplifying the
robustness of our Network Storage Server, powered by the IPStor
virtualization platform, this engagement also demonstrates FalconStor’s
continuing commitment to team with industry leaders to offer fully
optimized, certified and integrated solutions to maximize the end user
customer’s ROI.”

“FalconStor’s technology is helping Xasax to change the game of trading
by offering technical services previously unavailable to mid-market
financial organizations,” added Noah Lieske, Founder and CEO of Xasax.
“This killer-combo enables any device with InfiniBand HCAs, hosted in
our proximity environment, to have substantive throughput to disk, all
in a highly available configuration.”

“Using this solution which combines iSCSI and InfiniBand,
Xasax was able to improve their storage performance by five times,
while running a unified server and storage switching backbone,” added
Asaf Somekh, Vice President, Strategic Alliances, Voltaire. “This
solution extends Voltaire´s offerings into the storage and middle
markets, as it is attractive to IT operations of all sizes that require
fast access to large amounts of storage.”

Xasax Corporation

Voltaire

FalconStor Software, Inc.