Der Spiegel, German Magazine, Has Implemented FalconStor IPStor
The virtualization solution delivers 35TB of storage across heterogeneous infrastructure and multiple sites
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on February 5, 2008 at 4:13 pmFalconStor Software Inc. announced that German media company Spiegel,
owner of Der Spiegel, Germany’s leading
magazine, has implemented the FalconStor
Network Storage Server (NSS) solution powered by the FalconStor IPStor
Enterprise Edition software to deliver a Storage Area Network
infrastructure to provide increased flexibility, central administration
and application-aware backup for its Lotus Notes server cluster and
other file servers. The solution was implemented together with
Hamburg-based partner, Itiso.
Spiegel required backup and storage capabilities for massive amounts of
data in excess of 35 TB. For Spiegel, one of the NSS solution’s
key advantages over potential alternatives was the FalconStor Storage
Service Enabler option which allows adoption into an NSS storage pool of
existing storage devices, together with their existing data, in order to
enable them with advanced storage services. Residing on an
infrastructure comprised of a Storage Area Network using both Fibre
Channel and iSCSI, Spiegel’s new,
post-deployment environment is both virtualized and storage
service-enabled, across two sites.
Robert Kiehne, Systems Manager at Spiegel, said: “As
a 24/7 media organisation with a large volume of data, we can afford
neither downtime due to any sort of failure, nor downtime in order to
migrate vast amounts of data to a new infrastructure. FalconStor’s
ability to deliver advanced storage services within these constraints
was exactly what we were seeking.”
Spiegel’s existing data LUNs have been duly
enabled by the FalconStor NSS appliance to make use of FalconStor
software’s advanced services, without either
bulk copying or virtualization, and with minimal downtime. One of these
services, application-aware Snapshot Agent for Lotus Notes, now protects
Spiegel’s messaging data stores with full
point-in-time consistency and transactional integrity while still
allowing uninterrupted access to the data stores at full speed.
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