FalconStor Software

FalconStor Software is the market leader in TOTALLY Open data protection. We deliver proven, comprehensive solutions that facilitate the continuous availability of business-critical data with speed, integrity, and simplicity. Our solutions allow businesses of all sizes to overcome real-world data protection and storage challenges including dramatically increasing data, shrinking backup windows, and budgetary constraints.

FalconStor IPStor Platform

FalconStor® IP Stor® technology platform is a TOTALLY Open™ and comprehensive suite of enterprise-class storage  services, as well as a highly optimized, scalable, and flexible storage virtualization engine. As the underlying "Storage OS" powering FalconStor's industry-leading line of data protection and business continuity solutions, the IPStor technology platform provides centrally managed and fully virtualized data provisioning and protection based on standard industry server and storage technology. With support for all connectivity protocols, IPStor technology enables the highest levels of management simplicity, efficiency, openness, and scalable performance across multi-vendor and multi-platform environments. The IPStor platform delivers critical capabilities to IT storage professionals: 

• Optimized virtualization engine for storage virtualization while supporting server virtualization for VMware, Virtual Iron, and Microsoft environments
• Intelligent storage provisioning and management, offering on-demand thin provisioning, capacity-on-demand, data compression, and archiving to near-line storage to optimize storage use
• Highest overall performance by supporting technologies such as Solid State Drives (SSD) and continuous replication over 4Gb Fibre Channel (FC) and 20Gb InfiniBand, as well as 1GB iSCSI
• Simple management with centralized control, reporting, and remote monitoring
• TOTALLY Open architecture with any-to-any data migration and replication, offering organizations the flexibility to use the devices of their choice – now and in the future
• Highly efficient "Green" solutions leveraging thin-provisioning, thin replication, host-side capacity-on-demand, Massive Array of Idle Disks (MAID) and server virtualization
• Storage as a Service (SaaS) enablement for service providers looking to build or enhance their services offerings

The IPStor platform is the Storage OS for FalconStor's data protection and storage virtualization solutions:

• Tape Backup Optimization – FalconStor VTL
• Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery – FalconStor CDP
• Storage Virtualization, Provisioning, and Management – FalconStor NSS

The IPStor platform provides data protection services at all levels—from the operating system and application software, to files, databases, and messaging data across your entire organization. IPStor technology is extremely scalable, allowing FalconStor solutions to address the needs of small/medium businesses, large organizations, and global enterprises. It offers high availability (HA) through RAID, synchronous and asynchronous mirroring, HA failover, and clustering technologies.

The IPStor platform provides your applications with the widest array of the most advanced storage services – so that your mission-critical data is always available, quickly accessible, and easily recoverable with point-in-time integrity.

FalconStor Virtual Tape Library (VTL)

High performance VTL with massively scalable clustered deduplication

FalconStor® VTL Enterprise Edition provides large organizations with high-performance enterprise-level disk-based data protection to meet backup demands, simplify tape management, and enhance tape security. It is integrated with FalconStor Single Instance Repository (SIR) to deliver post-process global deduplication without impacting the backup window. With SIR, only unique data blocks are replicated to the remote site, slashing network traffic over 95%. Offering multi-node scalability, FalconStor VTL emulates vast arrays of tape libraries, drives, and cartridges, ensuring complete backup transparency. By enabling companies to keep backup data on disk, FalconStor VTL significantly improves the speed and dependability of recovery.

Highlights

• Industry-leading VTL solution
• High-speed Fibre Channel (FC) and iSCSI SAN support
• Scales up to 8 nodes as a single group of 4 VTL high availability (HA) pairs with linear performance
• Next-generation deduplication architecture using SIR supports N+1 cluster up to 4 nodes; repository can scale up to 256TB
• Global deduplication optimizes replication bandwidth utilization for disaster recovery (DR)
• Optimal storage efficiency through tape format-aware data deduplication and compression
• Tape caching, multi-tape export, and tape consolidation streamline media management
• Supports one-to-one and many-to-one offsite replication for DR
• Centralized management reduces IT administration costs
• Tape security and data encryption protect sensitive data
• TOTALLY Open™ architecture supports the wildest range of backup software, disk drives, arrays, tape drives, and libraries

FalconStor VTL Enterprise Edition is available as software or enterprise gateway appliances.

FalconStor Continuous Data Protector (CDP)

Realtime, disk-based data protection for instant, granular recovery to any point in time

FalconStor® CDP delivers the most innovative backup and recovery solution to protect application servers, in large organizations. FalconStor CDP replaces conventional, slow tape-based solutions with the industry's fastest, most granular recovery solution for mission-critical databases, messaging data, files, and even entire systems in the event of hardware or software failures and site-level disasters. With FalconStor CDP, you can replace or enhance your existing backup solution with continuous journaling and any-point-in-time recovery, to protect data between regularly scheduled backups, minimize data loss, and keep business going during planned or unplanned outages.

Recover With FalconStor

• Recover files and databases in 1 minute
• Mailbox recovery in 3 minutes
• Physical-to-physical (P2P) recovery in 5 minutes
• Physical server-to-virtual machine (P2V) recovery in 10 minutes
• Recover entire site in 30 minutes

Highlights

• TOTALLY Open™ architecture integrates with existing storage environment and offers massive scalability
• High-performance SAN (iSCSI, Fibre Channel [FC] and InfiniBand) support
• Achieve or exceed RPO and RTO objectives, to optimize productivity and service levels
• Lets you use cost-efficient, high-speed nearline disk storage
• Application-aware Snapshot Agents ensure 100% transactional consistency and point-in-time integrity
• Offsite storage and DR through integrated FalconStor Replication
• TimeMark® technology enables fast, intelligent rollback to any point in time
• TimeView® technology creates an accessible, mountable delta snapshot image to create multiple and instantaneous virtual copies of an active data set for temporary use
• MicroScan™ replication and compression technology minimizes network bandwidth requirements
• Quickly and easily archive to tape using HyperTrac™ Backup Accelerator
• DiskSafe protects DAS and SAN for Microsoft Windows-based application servers
• Offloads backup overhead from production hosts; eliminates backup windows
• Integrated storage virtualization, mirroring, and active-active failover for high availability
• Protects remote offices by enabling them to maintain a current copy of their data at a central data center

FalconStor CDP is available as software, turnkey appliances, and a virtual appliance for VMware Infrastructure.

FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS)

TOTALLY Open™ enterprise-class storage virtualization, provisioning, and management

FalconStor® NSS provides high-performance SAN primary storage combined with enterprise-class storage virtualization, provisioning, and management. Thin provisioning and capacity-on-demand capabilities help automate storage resource allocation and capacity management while virtualization provides centralized management for heterogeneous storage environments. FalconStor NSS includes the FalconStor TimeMark® snapshot capability for transactionally consistent, instant recovery to known points in time—helping IT meet recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO). Data stored on FalconStor NSS appliances may be replicated to another NSS appliance via IP for realtime disaster recovery (DR) protection. Delta-based FalconStor Replication uses FalconStor MicroScan™ technology, which reduces the amount of data being transferred by sending only the changed sectors within a block. Replication includes encryption for security and compression for reduced bandwidth requirements. FalconStor NSS appliances are available with internal and external storage.

Highlights

• High-speed Fibre Channel (FC) SAN support for high performance
• Supports InfiniBand (iSER) for a single, high-speed connection for both network and storage
• iSCSI SAN included for flexibility
• Appliances available with high-speed SAS or cost effective SATA drives
• Thin provisioning and capacity on demand to centralize and automate storage resource allocation and capacity management
• The only 2-node active-active solution offering complete redundancy for ultra-high availability
• Application-aware Snapshot Agents ensure 100% transactional and point-in-time integrity, without lengthy consistency checks
• TimeMark® technology enables fast, intelligent rollback to any point in time
• TimeView® technology creates an accessible, mountable delta snapshot image to create multiple and instantaneous virtual copies of an active data set for temporary use
• Effective DR using FalconStor Replication to copy data offsite across any distance over IP
• Block-level delta-based replication via MicroScan technology to overcome bandwidth constraints.
• Data encryption ensures end-to-end security without additional overhead
• HyperTrac™ Backup Accelerator technology improves backup to tape by over 400%
• Microsoft VSS-compliant; integrated with Oracle RMAN, ASM
• Appliances certified for VMware Infrastructure

FalconStor NSS is available as software and turnkey appliances.