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FalconStor Software, Inc. has entered into a managed services and reseller agreement with HP Enterprise Services.

Under the terms of the agreement, effective October 1, 2010, FalconStor® Network Storage Server (NSS) software will be used to create new disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity offerings for HP Business Continuity & Recovery Services (BCRS) customers. This agreement enables HP Enterprise Services to add new heterogeneous replication services to the comprehensive offerings of HP BCRS as well as the full data protection capabilities of the FalconStor NSS solution.

“The FalconStor NSS solution’s heterogeneous replication feature provides HP’s Business Continuity & Recovery Services a critical capability that allows HP to replicate between any brand of storage to and from the customer site and the BCRS recovery site,” said Bernie Wu, vice president of business development for FalconStor. “We look forward to working with HP and providing leading products in the growing market for cloud-based replication and DR solutions.”

Delivers 10x storage performance improvement while providing integrated, multi-tier data protection for virtual desktops

FalconStor Software today announced FalconStor® Network Storage Server (NSS) SAN Accelerator for VMware View™, an SSD-enhanced storage solution that increases the performance of VMware virtual desktop environments while delivering integrated, multi-tier data protection. FalconStor NSS SAN Accelerator for VMware View performs backup and recovery for the entire virtual desktop environment and for each virtual desktop – and, for the first time, enables integrated self-service file recovery for individual virtual desktop users.

VMware View delivers tremendous efficiencies in the deployment and management of enterprise users’ desktop and laptop computers. Virtual desktop operation and management can be enhanced by storage capabilities to maximize performance, availability and efficiency. FalconStor NSS SAN Accelerator for VMware View dramatically enhances the efficiency of virtual desktop management throughout the virtual desktop lifecycle – accelerating virtual desktop booting, login, operation, logoff, patch/update and security management through 10x storage performance improvement.

Virtual desktop deployments also require advanced data protection and storage efficiency features for storing desktop images, user data and settings that need to be backed up and recoverable in the event of a system failure, user error or data center disaster. The FalconStor NSS SAN Accelerator for VMware View employs snapshots, thin clones, replication and file-level protection to enable a three-tier data protection service:

- entire VMware View environment – comprehensive, enterprise-class continuous data protection that allows IT managers to recover locally or from a DR site in the event of system-wide failure

- all VMware View user data repositories – complete data protection for user data located within the VMware View environment and redirected folders on a separate NAS appliance

- self-service file-level recovery – users can recover their own individual files as needed, saving storage administrators significant time and expense.

“Virtualization in general and virtualization of desktops in particular have amplified I/O unpredictably as read/write I/O storms occur frequently without warning; the only solution to date has been to add more disk drives,” said David Vellante, chief research advocate, Wikibon. “Wikibon has been emphasizing the requirement for different architectures to exploit the potential of flash to improve I/O performance. We are very pleased with the innovation that FalconStor has shown with its flash-on- storage-controller implementation, which is much more efficient for VDI than SSDs. The FalconStor NSS SAN Accelerator neatly exploits the VMware I/O separation improvements to offer a solution that combines low-cost SATA with 2 to 3 percent high-performance flash as a cache that can adapt in real-time. Wikibon believes this is a best-of-breed solution for high-performance workloads.”

“The rapidly adopted paradigm shift of virtual servers and desktops ushered in by VMware’s innovation has created the need for storage environments with integrated data protection designed for the new virtual data center,” said Jim McNiel, chief strategy officer for FalconStor. “Virtual environments not only demand flexible, scalable virtual storage environments, but also require backup and DR systems that work with the unique characteristics of virtual machines. We designed the FalconStor NSS SAN Accelerator for VMware View™ to deliver the kind of storage environment that virtual desktops require – improving performance and data protection in one elegant solution.”

Pricing and availability
The FalconStor NSS SAN Accelerator for VMware View is available immediately through FalconStor’s network of channel partners. The average cost for an implementation of up to 5,000 users is $35 per virtual desktop.

About FalconStor Software
FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC) is the market leader in disk-based data protection. FalconStor delivers proven, comprehensive data protection solutions that facilitate the continuous availability of business-critical data with speed, integrity and simplicity. The Company’s TOTALLY Open™ technology solutions, built upon the award-winning IPStor® platform, include the industry leading Virtual Tape Library (VTL) with deduplication, Continuous Data Protector (CDP), File-interface Deduplication System (FDS), and Network Storage Server (NSS), each enabled with WAN-optimized replication for disaster recovery and remote office protection, and the HyperFS™ file system. FalconStor products are available as OEM or branded solutions from industry leaders, including Acer, Data Direct Networks, Dynamic Solutions International, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi Data Systems, Huawei, Pillar Data Systems, SGI, SeaChange and Spectra Logic and are deployed by thousands of customers worldwide, from small businesses to Fortune 1000 enterprises.

FalconStor is headquartered in Melville, N.Y., with offices throughout Europe and the Asia Pacific region. FalconStor is an active member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). For more information, visit http://www.falconstor.com.

- Hitachi Data Systems to deliver FalconStor’s VTL and deduplication solutions
- Integrated with Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family

FalconStor Software, Inc. today announced that FalconStor has entered into a limited procurement agreement with Hitachi Data Systems. Under the terms of the agreement, Hitachi Data Systems will resell FalconStor® Virtual Tape Library (VTL) with deduplication and FalconStor® File-interface Deduplication System (FDS) integrated with the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family on a limited basis.

The arrangement between Hitachi Data Systems and FalconStor Software enables the combination of industry-leading high-performance storage arrays with the world’s number one VTL/deduplication system and the industry’s first LAN-based deduplication system with high availability.

“This new reseller agreement with Hitachi Data Systems brings to market powerful integrated solutions that combine best-of-breed storage and data management software,” said Bernie Wu, vice president of business development for FalconStor. “The Hitachi AMS 2000 family from HDS is ideal for FalconStor’s VTL and deduplication applications designed to bring greater efficiency to today’s data center.”

About the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family
The Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family is a flexible storage platform designed to help organizations achieve key business benefits, such as meeting service level agreements (SLAs), attaining cost-effective performance and ensuring nondisruptive operations while realizing better administrative efficiencies and investment protection. There are three models in the family – the AMS 2100, AMS 2300 and AMS 2500. While these models differ in capacity, connectivity, performance and price points, each of these models has the same reliability and enterprise-level features.

About FalconStor Software
FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC) is the market leader in disk-based data protection. FalconStor delivers proven, comprehensive data protection solutions that facilitate the continuous availability of business-critical data with speed, integrity and simplicity. The Company’s TOTALLY Open™ technology solutions, built upon the award-winning IPStor® platform, include the industry leading Virtual Tape Library (VTL) with deduplication, Continuous Data Protector (CDP), File-interface Deduplication System (FDS), and Network Storage Server (NSS), each enabled with WAN-optimized replication for disaster recovery and remote office protection, and the HyperFS™ file system. FalconStor products are available as OEM or branded solutions from industry leaders, including Acer, Data Direct Networks, Dynamic Solutions International, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, Huawei, Pillar Data Systems, SGI, SeaChange and Spectra Logic and are deployed by thousands of customers worldwide, from small businesses to Fortune 1000 enterprises.

FalconStor is headquartered in Melville, N.Y., with offices throughout Europe and the Asia Pacific region. FalconStor is an active member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). For more information, visit www.falconstor.com.

Will deliver FalconStor® VTL and deduplication solutions in Nordics, Baltic States and The Netherlands

FalconStor Software, Inc. and Proact, a Swedish value-added IT storage systems integrator, have signed an agreement, effective immediately, for Proact to resell FalconStor® Virtual Tape Library (VTL) with deduplication in several European countries, including Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, the Baltic States and The Netherlands.

“Proact enjoys a strong reputation in the region for deploying high-quality storage solutions, making it a strong partner for us in this region,” said Thomas Barrett, vice president of northern European sales and operations for FalconStor. “Northern Europe is a growth market for FalconStor, and we believe that working with Proact is an important early step towards improving our reach throughout this region.”

“FalconStor VTL with deduplication is a complementary fit with our storage portfolio, improving the range of solutions we can offer our customers,” said Jakob Høholdt, vice president of corporate strategy and efficiency for Proact IT Group. “In particular, tape-free backup and data deduplication continue to be a hot topic for our customers, and FalconStor VTL with deduplication gives us a terrific solution to meet their current needs.”

Proact’s customer base consists of corporations and organisations with mission-critical information managed in complex data center environments within industries such as oil and energy, telecommunications, banking and finance, entertainment and media as well as within the public sector.

About Proact
Proact is a specialist in storage, archiving and securing large volumes of mission-critical information. As an independent integrator, Proact provides systems, support and consulting services within its focus area of data storage and archiving. The Proact Group has more than 300 employees and conducts business in Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. Proact was founded in 1994, and its parent company, Proact IT Group AB has been listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm since 1999 under the symbol PACT. Additional information about Proact is available at www.proact.eu.

Designed for SMB and ROBO markets in Europe, FalconStor EMEA targets outmoded traditional backup methods with integrated hardware/software appliance that delivers instant recovery

FalconStor Software, Inc. today announced FalconStor® Continuous Data Protector (CDP) for Backup, a hardware/software appliance designed to meet the particular needs of the small and-medium-size business (SMB) and remote office/branch office (ROBO) markets in Europe. FalconStor CDP for Backup provides simultaneous backup and data protection capabilities and addresses the serious deficiencies of traditional backup applications and outdated practices.

FalconStor CDP combines local and remote protection into a cost-effective, unified, disk-based solution that enables the recovery of data – and business operations – back to the most recent transaction. This is achieved by a process of continuous and simultaneous backup of all servers and applications. The concept of continuous backup to disk completely eliminates the anachronism of the backup window and dramatically increases the number of recovery points available, virtually eliminating the risk of data loss. There is a common management interface for the entire environment, and there are no removable media to manage.

The result is that the FalconStor CDP for Backup appliance makes backup simple, fast, affordable and reliable. It is also, in effect, a combined backup and disaster recovery (DR) solution that delivers instant recovery. For example, accidentally deleted or corrupted files can be retrieved in less than two minutes, a system recovered in just 10 minutes and entire remote DR sites can be brought on line in just half an hour.

“The reality is that traditional backup software is an outmoded concept that only performs a single task – and not very well,” said Guillaume Imberti, vice president and general manager, EMEA operations, FalconStor. “Traditional backup techniques involve too many points of failure, too much opportunity for data loss and, in the SMB environment in particular, too much scope for human error.”

“FalconStor CDP for Backup addresses the backup requirements of SMBs, especially those with remote or branch offices, more effectively and – crucially – more simply than any other solution. Through the unique combination of capabilities, flexibility, simplicity and effectiveness, we aim to overcome the natural hesitation that often stops companies from commissioning a robust, modern, fit-for-purpose backup solution,” Imberti explains.

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About FalconStor CDP for Backup
FalconStor® Continuous Data Protector (CDP) technology reinvents how data is backed up and recovered. Moving far beyond failure-prone once-a-day tape backup models, FalconStor CDP combines local and remote protection into a cost-effective, unified, disk-based solution that enables the recovery of data back to the most recent transaction. Recovery point objectives (RPO) shrink to mere seconds.

But protection is only part of the solution. FalconStor CDP for Backup delivers fast, reliable recovery, bringing business back online sooner. Using a wealth of sophisticated technologies – including application integration, physical-to-virtual recovery, and WAN-optimized replication – entire systems can be restored in under 10 minutes. Lost files can be recovered in two minutes. And all of this can occur without the need to touch backup software or run a “restore job.” Data is protected in its native format and instantly accessible. Recovery time objectives (RTO) change from hours to minutes, minimizing system downtime and economic impact.

FalconStor today introduced a low-priced virtualisation promotion in order to increase reseller margins on smaller virtualisation projects.

“Virtualisation starts to make sense as soon as a company reaches just three physical servers,” explains Philippe Bruiant, director of channel sales operations, FalconStor EMEA. “And, when you consider how common it is to have a file server, print server, email server, network server or a database server, that actually means a heck of a lot of businesses.”

“However, many of these businesses will not be interested in zero downtime, or fault tolerance, or disaster recovery. Consequently, projects for this sort of customer tend to be of low value, generating low margins for resellers – and this makes them unattractive projects. This highly competitive offer is for resellers that are willing to virtualise the servers and storage of customers with limited requirements and provides the resellers with ‘instant margin’,” Bruiant said.

Until June 15th, the FalconStor® Network Storage Server (NSS) Virtual Appliance with a one terabyte storage capacity license is priced at €800, a reduction of €400, on proof of purchase of a VMware vSphere™ 4 Essentials Bundle. VMware is currently offering its vSphere™ 4 Essentials Bundle at US$495 instead of US$995. Products are available from VMware- and FalconStor-accredited channel partners respectively. [See Notes to editors for more details.]

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About VMware vSphere™ Essentials
About VMware VSphere™ Essentials provides an all-in-one solution for small businesses to consolidate and manage many application workloads while reducing hardware and operating costs with a low up-front investment.

About FalconStor NSS
FalconStor NSS Virtual Appliance transforms internal disk storage of servers (DAS) into an iSCSI SAN. A cost-effective, highly available infrastructure for the small/medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and remote office/branch offices (ROBOs), it enables VMware‘s advanced features yet needs no additional storage network investment. All FalconStor solutions come in three deployment options: virtual appliance, storage appliance, or gateway appliance (connects to third-party storage devices).

Note to editors
Both products in the bundle are available from VMware- and FalconStor-accredited channel partners, respectively. Both products must be purchased within 10 working days of each other. Proof of VMware vSphere purchase will be asked by FalconStor. Offer price valid for orders received by June 15, 2010.

FalconStor Software, Inc, the provider of TOTALLY Open™ data protection solutions, today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2010.

Revenues for the first quarter of 2010 were $17.1 million, compared with $21.0 million for the same period a year ago. GAAP loss from operations for the quarter was $8.5 million, compared with a loss of $0.8 million in the first quarter of 2009. GAAP net loss for the quarter was $5.5 million, or $0.12 per share, compared with a net loss of $0.9 million, or $0.02 per share, in the first quarter of 2009. Stock-based compensation expense was $2.7 million in the first quarter of 2010 and $2.2 million in the first quarter of 2009.

Non-GAAP loss from operations was $5.8 million in the first quarter of 2010, compared with operating income of $1.3 million for the same period a year ago. Non-GAAP net loss was $3.8 million, or $0.08 per share in the first quarter of 2010, compared with net income of $0.6 million, or $0.01 per diluted share, in the first quarter of 2009. Non-GAAP results exclude the effects of stock-based compensation expense net of the related income taxes.

The Company closed the quarter with $40.5 million in cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities. Deferred revenue at March 31, 2010 was $23.0 million.

“Besides expense containment/reduction, we are also focusing on capturing growth opportunities in data deduplication, data protection and cloud-based services,” said ReiJane Huai, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of FalconStor. “Through strategic partnerships and cloud-based services we believe we will be able to accelerate the market awareness/acceptance of our solutions and produce long term shareholder value.”

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Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The non-GAAP financial measures used in this press release are not prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and may be different from non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies. The Company´s management refers to these non-GAAP financial measures in making operating decisions because they provide meaningful supplemental information regarding the Company´s operating performance. In addition, these non-GAAP financial measures facilitate management´s internal comparisons to the Company´s historical operating results and comparisons to competitors´ operating results. We include these non-GAAP financial measures (which should be viewed as a supplement to, and not a substitute for, their comparable GAAP measures) in this press release because we believe they are useful to investors in allowing for greater transparency into the supplemental information used by management in its financial and operational decision-making. For a reconciliation of our GAAP and non-GAAP financial results, please refer to our Non-GAAP Operating Data GAAP Reconciliation here.

Delivers high-performance, massively scalable file system – early partners include SeaChange and Rorke Data

FalconStor Software, Inc. today announced the FalconStor® HyperFS™ file system, a high-performance, massively scalable solution for data-intensive applications that generate very large numbers of files.

HyperFS is an innovative file system that simplifies the management of large files, providing high-speed, low-latency file access to heterogeneous clients across a global repository that meets the performance and scalability challenges of the most demanding media and entertainment applications.

Rorke Data, a FalconStor partner, has integrated the HyperFS file system into its Galaxy Aurora family of storage area network (SAN) appliances to create a turnkey storage solution designed for post production, video-on-demand, content distribution, broadcast and other rich media environments. Featuring FalconStor’s HyperFS file system, this new storage server solution will be on display at Rorke Data’s booth, SL9629, at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference in Las Vegas, April 12 to 15.

The HyperFS file system simplifies management of and access to large numbers of multiple types of files, substantially reducing storage capital and operational expenses; it optimizes storage performance by providing a single global name space*, up to 144 petabytes of storage capacity, and gigabyte-level transmission bandwidth that supports hundreds of shared clients. The HyperFS file system meets the demanding requirements of the media and entertainment market by supporting massive data sets, concurrent heterogeneous multi-user access, high performance, low latency and highly scalable storage capacity in a single pool of storage. With today’s all-digital motion pictures generating up to two petabytes of data or more, the HyperFS file system allows users to manage their assets in one place that is easily accessible at all points in their digital workflow. As an open software platform, the HyperFS file system runs on any storage hardware and supports Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows and Linux clients in a shared infrastructure.

“The amount of data under management in the media and entertainment market is astounding and continues to accelerate as a result of today’s digital technology,” said Noemi Greyzdorf, IDC research manager with IDC’s Storage Software. “FalconStor’s HyperFS file system has been designed to address storage issues related to applications requiring high performance and very low latency, such as those commonly found in media and entertainment markets.”

“We designed the HyperFS file system to address a wide variety of applications across multiple industries that need to consolidate, manage and manipulate enormous amounts of data cost effectively,” said Steve Dalton, vice president and general manager of the Advanced File Systems Division of FalconStor Software. “We chose to focus on the media and entertainment marketplace first because this is where we make an immediate and significant contribution. We are answering the media industry’s dire need for a robust multi-tasking, high-performance, high-capacity storage management system as content continues to explode in quantity, size and complexity.”

HyperFS file system for media and entertainment
The HyperFS file system is ideal for media and entertainment applications, such as post, video-on-demand, broadcast and content distribution, where storage consolidation, cost reduction, simplification of storage resource management, massive scalability and high performance are critical to manage, edit, format and distribute large numbers of sizeable video, audio, and rich media files.

“Rorke Data’s M&E Division specializes in RAID, SAN, NAS and archive storage solutions for the post, film and broadcast markets,” said Bob Herzan, vice president of sales for the Media and Entertainment Division of Rorke Data, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bell Microproducts (NASDAQ:BELM). “By leveraging FalconStor’s HyperFS file system, we can address the exacting needs of post-production editing environments as well as content distribution operations with a powerful turnkey solution that enhances our product offering for these demanding markets. The combination of the HyperFS file system and Rorke’s high performance patent pending Aurora SAN appliance raise the bar in both cost per gigabyte and network performance for the media and entertainment industry.”

FalconStor HyperFS file system key features and benefits
* Transparent scalability, up to 144 petabytes of storage enables the consolidation of disparate storage resources into a single, easy-to-manage and capacity-optimized pool of storage
* High performance and low latency to handle I/O needed for rich media applications involving billions of objects or files
* Global name space and built-in network-attached storage (NAS) for a universal, consolidated file system accessible to all users
* Dedicated metadata server (MDS) supports up to 16 concurrent file systems to facilitate storage consolidation, scalability and smooth workflow
* Supports heterogeneous Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X clients and allows them to share files seamlessly
* Open architecture for hardware independence allows customers to choose the hardware platform that is most efficient and cost effective for their environment
* Comprehensive data protection when deployed with FalconStor® Network Storage Server (NSS) – built-in snapshots, WAN-optimized replication, and data migration for maximum data availability
* FalconStor NSS provides thin provisioning for maximum disk utilization to reduce storage costs and power consumption

FalconStor HyperFS availability
FalconStor HyperFS file system is immediately available from Rorke Data Systems integrated with the Aurora SAN appliance. It is also available from FalconStor’s HyperFS-authorized solution provider partners as a standalone software application that runs on any storage hardware. In addition, the HyperFS file system is integrated into SeaChange International’s new Universal MediaLibrary™.

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About FalconStor Software
FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC) is the market leader in disk-based data protection. FalconStor delivers proven, comprehensive data protection solutions that facilitate the continuous availability of business-critical data with speed, integrity and simplicity. The Company’s TOTALLY Open™ technology solutions, built upon the award-winning IPStor® platform, include the industry leading Virtual Tape Library (VTL) with deduplication, Continuous Data Protector (CDP), File-interface Deduplication System (FDS), and Network Storage Server (NSS), each enabled with WAN-optimized replication for disaster recovery and remote office protection, and the HyperFS file system. FalconStor products are available from major OEMs and solution providers including 3Com, Acer, Data Direct Networks, Dynamic Solutions International, EMC, IBM, Oracle, Pillar Data Systems, SGI, SeaChange and Spectra Logic and are deployed by thousands of customers worldwide, from small businesses to Fortune 1000 enterprises.

FalconStor is headquartered in Melville, N.Y., with offices throughout Europe and the Asia Pacific region. FalconStor is an active member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). For more information, visit www.falconstor.com.

FalconStor, FalconStor Software and IPStor are registered trademark and TOTALLY Open and HyperFS are trademarks of FalconStor Software, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. All other company and product names contained herein may be trademarks of their respective holders.

Links to websites or pages controlled by parties other than FalconStor are provided for the reader’s convenience and information only. FalconStor does not incorporate into this release the information found at those links nor does FalconStor represent or warrant that any information found at those links is complete or accurate. Use of information obtained by following these links is at the reader’s own risk.

* A global name space is a heterogeneous, enterprise-wide abstraction of all file information, open to dynamic customization based on user-defined parameters, which enables effective file management in mixed environments.

New FalconStor NSS SAN Accelerator doubles overall SAN performance
at a fraction of the cost of conventional disk storage solutions

FalconStor Software and Violin Memory today announced the first flash-memory-based storage system that simultaneously accelerates reads and writes for mission-critical applications as well as general SAN performance. The FalconStor® NSS SAN Accelerator doubles SAN performance, delivering high-speed access to stored data with minimal latency, at a fraction of the cost of conventional solutions.

The FalconStor NSS SAN Accelerator combines the FalconStor® Network Storage Server (NSS) Gateway, a Violin 1010 Flash Memory Appliance and FalconStor’s storage management software to create a virtual SAN out of new or existing storage resources while introducing a solid state memory array as a caching platform for all application data requiring the fastest input/output (I/O). The integrated solution uses an economical amount of solid state storage as a caching platform. Lab tests of the FalconStor NSS SAN Accelerator conducted by FalconStor show that a solid-state layer of one percent of a SAN’s total storage capacity will increase overall SAN performance greater than 100 percent.

“Our evaluation of the FalconStor NSS SAN Accelerator proved that it can significantly enhance storage response time and underload scalability,” said George Crump, founder of Storage Switzerland. “The interesting capability of this system is that it can be deployed into an existing SAN and yield impressive improvements in performance and scalability at a reasonable cost.”

“There are no other solutions on the market today that can yield as much performance enhancement out of a modest investment in a solid state tier of a virtualized SAN,” said Fadi Albatal, vice president of marketing for FalconStor. “FalconStor’s innovative storage management software intelligently and predictably accelerates reads and writes to the SAN on a global basis and is not exclusive to an application or a specific storage segment.”

FalconStor’s SafeCache™ and HotZone® features for Write/Read Acceleration
FalconStor NSS SAN Accelerator speeds up both writes and reads with two unique capabilities of Falconstor storage management software: SafeCache™ and HotZone® features. FalconStor’s SafeCache capability allows a segment of the solid state memory array to be devoted to application writes so that all disk writes can be received and acknowledged with low latency. The data is then written transparently to the destination storage volumes on the SAN.

FalconStor’s HotZone capability accelerates the read process of specific applications, including random-access databases, and general SAN I/O by monitoring disk access patterns and then intelligently copying the hot data to a HotZone cache on the solid state memory array for faster read access. When the data is no longer heavily used, the data is deleted from the cache and referenced back to its original location in the SAN to make room for other highly active datasets.

About the Violin 1010 Flash Memory Appliance
The Violin 1010 is a four-terabyte enterprise-class flash appliance that provides sustainable performance with sub-100uS deterministic latency and serviceability (including automatic active sparing and hot swap of flash modules). Based on patent-pending flash RAID algorithms, the Violin 1010 provides enterprise data centers with performance and reliability at a lower cost than any traditional performance storage systems with solid state disks (SSD). To achieve a 100 percent performance boost, it is more than three times less expensive to add a solid state memory cache with the FalconStor NSS SAN Accelerator than it is to upgrade a SAN with additional disk arrays.

“Violin Memory is dedicated to developing the fastest, most reliable and economical solid state memory solutions for the enterprise market,” said Matt Barletta, vice president of product marketing for Violin Memory. “Solid state as a consumer technology has been around for a while, but we are now showing the many ways that scalable solid state memory arrays can revolutionize traditional enterprise storage methods and business practices. Together with FalconStor, we are providing customers with application acceleration options and flexibility never before available.”

Pricing and availability
FalconStor NSS SAN Accelerator will be available in Europe from May for a list price of $32,000, which includes one solid state memory array with 500 gigabytes of RAID-protected storage capacity. The solution will be available through FalconStor’s channel partners.

About Violin Memory, Inc.
Violin Memory, Inc. provides the world’s fastest and most scalable memory appliances that provide dramatic application acceleration for enterprise applications ranging from database, analytics, data warehousing, SAN acceleration, web caching and any other application that require very high IOPS and predictable low latency. Violin delivers density, reliability and per terabyte pricing competitive with enterprise-class performance hard-disk storage arrays transforming the pricing structure of the performance storage market. With support for multiple memory types including SLC & MLC flash, Violin Memory’s silicon storage appliances provide significant power and space savings with extreme data reliability and sustained performance. Founded in 2005, Violin Memory is headquartered in San Jose, California. For more information on Violin Memory products, visit www.violin-memory.com.

About FalconStor
FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC) is the market leader in disk-based data protection. FalconStor delivers proven, comprehensive data protection solutions that facilitate the continuous availability of business-critical data with speed, integrity, and simplicity. The Company’s TOTALLY Open™ technology solutions, built upon the award-winning IPStor® platform, include the industry leading Virtual Tape Library (VTL) with deduplication, Continuous Data Protector (CDP), File-interface Deduplication System (FDS), and Network Storage Server (NSS), each enabled with WAN-optimized replication for disaster recovery and remote office protection. FalconStor products are available from major OEMs and solution providers including 3Com, Acer, Data Direct Networks, Dynamic Solutions International, EMC, IBM, Oracle, Pillar Data Systems, SGI, and Spectra Logic and are deployed by thousands of customers worldwide, from small businesses to Fortune 1000 enterprises.

FalconStor is headquartered in Melville, N.Y., with offices throughout Europe and the Asia Pacific region. For more information, visit www.falconstor.com.

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FalconStor, FalconStor Software, IPStor, and HotZone are registered trademarks, and TOTALLY Open and SafeCache are trademarks of FalconStor Software, Inc. in the US and other countries. All other company and product names contained herein may be trademarks of their respective holders.

Nexsan first FalconStor technology partner to incorporate FalconStor FDS 2.0 into its storage systems

FalconStor Software, Inc. today announced version 2.0 of FalconStor® File-interface Deduplication System (FDS), which takes LAN-based deduplication to the next level of enterprise-class functionality with high availability and other enterprise capabilities. Nexsan is the first FalconStor technology partner to incorporate FalconStor FDS 2.0 into its storage offering in the Nexsan DeDupe SG 2.0 family of deduplication appliances.

FalconStor FDS is designed for both small-to-medium-size businesses and large enterprises looking to reduce storage space and costs by writing backup data more efficiently to disk. With the addition of high availability, enterprises of all sizes will retain access to their backed-up data, ensuring that backups of critical systems can always be completed within narrow backup windows – which is especially important for databases that may run a company’s ERP, CRM or other important applications. Other enterprise-class features in FDS 2.0 include:

• support for Symantec OpenStorage (OST) delivers 5.4 terabytes per hour of backup data throughput, ingest rates of 1.5 gigabytes per second over two 10 Gigabit Ethernet links for double the performance.
• an increased fan-in ratio of 150-to-1 that supports more distributed environments and enhances the scope of global deduplication.
• an enhanced replication dashboard for real-time status monitoring.
• more granular, folder level, replication support.
• policy driven end-to-end data integrity checking.
• collision avoidance that ensures data consistency and prevents data loss.

“The release of Nexsan DeDupe SG 2.0, which integrates the advanced enterprise-class capabilities of FalconStor FDS 2.0, underscores our commitment to offering market-leading deduplication solutions,” said Bob Woolery, senior vice president of marketing for Nexsan. “Today’s organizations require cost-effective solutions for high availability and continuous data access; the Nexsan DeDupe SG 2.0 meets these requirements while providing the optimized performance and efficiency enterprises of all sizes demand.”

“With this significant enhancement to FalconStor FDS, FalconStor now leads the market in features, scalability and performance in enterprise-class deduplication solutions for data centers,” said Fadi Albatal, vice president of product marketing for FalconStor. “The market has been demanding a high-availability dedupe solution for NAS-based disk-to-disk backup environments, and we are the first to deliver.”

Pricing and availability
FalconStor FDS 2.0 will be generally available at the end of February through FalconStor’s worldwide network of channel partners. The Nexsan DeDupe SG 2.0 family of deduplication appliances will be available at the end of February through Nexsan’s worldwide channel partner network.

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About FalconStor FDS
FalconStor FDS offers block-level deduplication of backup data via a simple file interface. FalconStor FDS extends the company´s highly scalable data deduplication technology – already widespread as part of the industry-leading FalconStor® Virtual Tape Library (VTL) solution – to network-attached storage (NAS) disk-to-disk backup environments. With built-in many-to-one replication capability, the file-interface system provides global deduplication by replicating from remote sites to a central data repository across the wide-area network.