FalconStor Software, Inc. is a leading Software-Defined Storage ("SDS")
company offering a converged data services software platform that is hardware
agnostic which was founded in 2000. As a global company, our vision is to deliver
enterprise class, software-defined, intelligent data services combined with
predictive analytics across any primary or secondary storage hardware; in the
cloud or on premise. The Companys mission is to help IT organizations realize
more economic value out of existing environments and any future storage investments
while reducing complexity, maximizing flexibility and improving operational
efficiency. Our award-winning solutions are available and supported worldwide
by OEMs as well as leading service providers, system integrators, resellers
and FalconStor.
FreeStor® is FalconStor’s flagship product, leading the industry with
what we believe to be the most complete, software-defined, hardware agnostic
platform to deliver a truly heterogeneous data services approach. While virtualization
has streamlined some common tasks associated with managing data resources, the
introduction of a virtualization layer can introduce a whole new level of complexity
to the protection, recovery and integration of both virtual and non-virtualized
resources. FreeStor helps IT organizations minimize and eliminate that complexity
with the availability of four specific use cases which include; migration, continuity,
protection/recovery and optimization for any storage environment through a single
management interface with "Edge-to-Core" analytics.
FalconStor accomplishes this through its Intelligent Abstraction® core,
which provides a scalable storage hypervisor, coupled with a data services engine
and automation, to ease the provisioning and management of storage resources
with the right level of performance, protection and recovery. The Intelligent
Abstraction core optimizes storage resources regardless of type, connectivity,
brand or speed, into a storage resource pool that can be provisioned to physical
or virtual applications, along with common, unified data services across that
pool. FreeStor is designed to reduce the complexity and time involved in managing
disparate underlying storage found in today’s enterprises.
FalconStor’s strategy is to focus on the development of the advanced
FreeStor platform to further leverage the company’s industry leading point
solutions as core building blocks. Our existing point products can be utilized
via the FreeStor platform or as stand-alone products. Our Business Continuity
and Disaster Recovery products, Network Storage Server (NSS) and Continuous
Data Protector (CDP), feature RecoverTrac, which we believe is the industry’s
most automated and complete recovery tool. Our solutions support physical, virtual,
hybrid and private cloud environments. We believe a key differentiator is our
ability to allow users to manage and to convert across these environments dynamically,
giving them the freedom to optimize their IT infrastructure and to eliminate
costly vendor and form-factor lock-in. Our Optimized Backup and Deduplication
(OBD) product merges our industry-leading Virtual Tape Library (VTL) and File-interface
Deduplication System (FDS) solutions to help customers optimize the performance
of their existing backup infrastructure, while reducing the cost of underlying
storage and data replication. From Fortune 100 enterprises to medium-size businesses,
customers across a vast range of industries worldwide have implemented FalconStor
solutions in their production IT environments. Whether it is to meet their recovery
time objectives (RTO) or their recovery point objectives (RPO), FalconStor helps
end users manage their storage infrastructures with minimal total cost of ownership
(TCO) and with optimal return on investment (ROI).
FalconStor is focused on offering solutions in four specific use-cases:
Data Migration
Continuous Availability
Data Protection + Recovery
Optimization
Our core point solution products enable these solutions as follows:
FreeStor® - An integrated software-defined platform that provides, migration,
continuity, protection/recovery and optimization for any storage environment
through a single management interface which contains analytics from
Edge-to-Core".
FalconStor® NSS - Migration, storage virtualization, provisioning and management.
FalconStor® CDP - Bootable snapshots, zero-impact backup, both local and
remote disaster recovery.
FalconStor® OBD - Optimized backup, archive to tape, block-based deduplication,
file-based deduplication and storage capacity optimization
FalconStor solutions are scalable in order to address the needs of medium businesses,
large organizations, and global enterprises. Our solutions offer high availability
(HA) through RAID, synchronous and asynchronous mirroring, HA failover, and
clustering technologies (both 2-NODE and 4-NODE) for those customers requiring
the highest levels of IT resiliency.
FreeStor
FreeStor is an industry leading software-defined, hardware agnostic platform
that delivers a heterogeneous data services approach. FreeStor helps IT organizations
minimize and eliminate the complexity with the delivery of migration, continuity,
protection/recovery and optimization services for any storage environment through
a single management interface.
This is accomplished through its Intelligent Abstraction core IO engine, which
provides a scalable storage hypervisor, coupled with a data services engine
and automation, to ease the provisioning and management of storage resources
with the right level of performance, protection and recovery. The Intelligent
Abstraction core optimizes storage resources regardless of type, connectivity,
brand or speed, into a storage resource pool that can be provisioned to physical
or virtual applications, along with common, unified data services across that
pool. FreeStor is designed to reduce the complexity and time involved in managing
disparate underlying storage found in today’s enterprise.
FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS)
FalconStor NSS is a scalable, highly available solution that enables storage
virtualization and business continuity in heterogeneous environments. Supporting
existing third-party disk arrays, FalconStor NSS eliminates storage boundaries
and vendor lock-in, providing fast and easy data storage provisioning and migration.
From a small iSCSI virtual server lab to an enterprise-class Fibre Channel SAN
running Tier-1 database applications, FalconStor NSS is designed to meet the
storage needs of any organization.
Moving data between different storage platforms can be complex, time consuming,
and disruptive to business operations. FalconStor’s core storage virtualization
technology provides a non-disruptive approach to data mobility across different
SAN protocols and vendors. With FalconStor NSS, we believe it becomes a simple
operation to move data from older platforms to newer ones or to introduce new
storage tiers. This allows organizations to respond to evolving performance
and capacity requirements.
FalconStor Continuous Data Protector (CDP)
We believe FalconStor CDP technology reinvents the way data backup and recovery
are implemented and performed. Moving 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 allows organizations to recover data back
to the most recent transaction. Combining application-aware snapshot agents
and continuous journaling functions, FalconStor CDP enables customers to recover
data to any point in time. FalconStor CDP delivers instant data availability
and reliable recovery, bringing business applications back on line in a matter
of minutes after a failure. FalconStor CDP protects application-specific data
for Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and other business applications, ensuring high performance
and stability for even the most complex business environments.
FalconStor RecoverTrac Disaster Recovery Automation Tool
The FalconStor RecoverTrac disaster recovery automation tool is included as
a standard feature of the FalconStor NSS and the FalconStor CDP solutions to
automate complex, time-consuming and error-prone failover and failback operations
of systems, applications, services, and entire data centers. The RecoverTrac
tool streamlines the implementation, testing and execution of DR operations.
It minimizes service failover time between sites and reduces DR costs by offering
full recovery from physical-to-physical, virtual-to-virtual, and physical-to-virtual
server infrastructures. This tool can also convert across those environments,
enabling organizations to seamlessly migrate locally, remotely or to and from
cloud environments.
FalconStor Optimized Backup and Deduplication (OBD)
The FalconStor OBD solution is one of the industry’s leading virtual
tape solutions, and we believe it is unmatched in terms of performance and scalability.
With virtual tape, backups complete faster and more reliably, with little or
no change needed to the backup environment. It enhances backup operations seamlessly
without changing any backup processes or policies. Sophisticated physical tape
integration and data security complete the solution. Designed from the start
as an enterprise-class application, FalconStor OBD can achieve sustained backup
speeds of 20TB per hour per node. Up to eight nodes can combine into a single
logical unit, scaling performance to a remarkable 160 TB per hour. This sustained
performance allows users to solve the single biggest issue in backup: meeting
the backup window. To put that in context, with our latest version 9.x product
releases, existing customers can now do the same backup job in 2.8 hours compared
with what previously took approximately 8 hours. Unlike our competitors who
report peak speeds using multiple nodes, FalconStor notes sustained speeds on
a single node and on multiple nodes to ensure customers can achieve real-world
performance and do more actual work in less time.
Built-in data deduplication significantly reduces the amount of data needed
to be stored on disk. Combined with the latest high-speed protocols, including
8Gb Fibre Channel (FC) and 10Gb Ethernet, we believe FalconStor OBD demonstrates
the fastest sustained deduplication speeds in the industry: more than 28 terabytes
per hour with inline deduplication and more than 40 terabytes per hour with
post processing. Because not all data is alike, we believe FalconStor OBD is
the only deduplication solution to offer flexible, deduplication options, letting
the customer choose from any combination of four deduplication methods (inline,
post-process, concurrent, and no deduplication) to align deduplication processes
with business goals and unique requirements. By eliminating redundant backup
data, the storage footprint can be reduced by as much as 95%, allowing organizations
to keep weeks or even months of data on disk for fast, dependable restore without
any of the reliability concerns of a tape-based restore.