FalconStor Launches New Partner Program: EZStart

FalconStor Software, Inc. announced the launch of the FalconStor EZStart Program, allowing authorized solution provider partners to quickly and easily build, market and support FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS), FalconStor Continuous Data Protector (CDP), and FalconStor Virtual Tape Library (VTL) with deduplication solutions as turnkey appliances based on major, industry leading platforms.

"This is another avenue to help our channel partners meet business objectives and their revenue goals. EZStart leverages each of our partner’s existing expertise in the hardware and servers they’re already selling and supporting," said Wendy Petty, FalconStor vice president for North American Sales. "EZStart is designed as a channel enablement program and a delivery vehicle for partners to easily build, sell, grow and support FalconStor solutions for their customers."

EZStart enables the building, testing and delivery of FalconStor data protection and storage virtualization solutions on turnkey appliances. Once a channel partner’s technical staff plugs in a provided pre-loaded USB drive, the EZStart installation wizard automatically starts, installing the necessary operating system, proper drivers and RAID configuration on server and storage hardware familiar to the channel partner. The EZStart wizard then walks the installer through basic manual steps to configure the FalconStor software and completes the appliance build in less than ten minutes.

FalconStor EZStart is designed from the ground up to be very scalable for any organization. Solution providers can expand EZStart appliances quickly and easily for their customers. The turnkey appliance solutions can be configured by channel partners on the server platform of their choice, free from any hardware vendor lock-in, to meet the needs of a business today. EZStart also allows integrators to grow their business based on FalconStor data protection solutions.

What partners are saying about FalconStor EZStart:

John Ward, HP Business Manager, DNS ARROW, a specialist IT distributor providing enterprise-class solutions and Services: "The best part about FalconStor EZStart is that it leverages the storage servers and hardware we’ve been selling and supporting for years, which leaves us well positioned to address the market need for data protection solutions."

Kent Lee, , PDS, Director, Jardine OneSolution (JOS), a leading provider for IT solutions and services in Singapore: "FalconStor EZStart offers channel partners the means for flexible and streamlined implementation, support and scalability. This helps speed our value proposition of providing continuous availability, simplified management and real-time business solutions for our enterprise customers."

Steve Ichinaga, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Systems Integration Division, SYNNEX Corporation, a leading business process services company: "Using FalconStor EZStart with our solutions offerings gives our VARs a flexible, efficient and high quality turnkey solution on hardware they’re familiar with – a competitive edge in the storage market place."

Paul Collins, Vice President of Technology, Total Tec Systems, Inc., a Bell Microproducts Company: "We have been offering FalconStor appliances to ensure the business continuity of our customers, and FalconStor EZStart provides us with a method for rapid deployment of leading data protection solutions that complement our current offerings."

Myoung Choul Jeong, President, YoungWoo, a leading IT solutions and services provider in Korea: "Through our partnership with FalconStor, we are able to provide our customers with top-of-the-line data protection solutions from industry leading vendors. At the same time, FalconStor EZStart allows us to gain tremendous traction within the high-end enterprise customers that we already serve."