FalconStor’s award-winning solutions — Continuous Data Protector (CDP), Virtual Tape Library (VTL), and Network Storage Server (NSS) are deployed by worldwide Fortune 1000 enterprises, including leaders in financial services, telecommunications, aerospace, manufacturing, law, energy production, government, healthcare, and higher education. Built on the FalconStor IPStor® storage virtualization platform, FalconStor delivers a complete line of highly scalable, energy conscious solutions that grow to meet the requirements of the smallest businesses through the largest global enterprises.

All FalconStor solutions share a common model of being integrated, optimized, and available.

Integrated
FalconStor solutions are built on a common platform, the FalconStor® IPStor® storage platform. FalconStor IPStor eliminates the compatibility and integration issues typically found with “bolted together” solutions created from disparate products with varying development histories.

Optimized
FalconStor solutions are designed to optimize performance and capacity utilization, making use of the latest advances in storage networking and technologies such as Thin Provisioning and deduplication. Application-specific tools optimize protection of key enterprise applications. Protection is enhanced even as costs are reduced.

Available
FalconStor solutions are all about data protection and recovery. Available means your data is protected with complete transactional integrity for fast and reliable recovery. It means the FalconStor solutions are deployed in highly available modes, with built-in failover capabilities. It means you can recover your data any time you need it, without worry.

FalconStor solutions are sold as four key product families developed in accordance with your data protection needs, providing the ultimate in business value:

Virtual Tape Library (VTL)
High performance backup and restore with deduplication

FalconStor Virtual Tape Library (VTL) is a high performance, scalable, disk-based tape emulation system that optimizes backup. Integrated data deduplication provides exceptional reductions in disk utilization and bandwidth during tape replication. Physical tape support extends functionality to the creation and management of physical media.

Continuous Data Protector (CDP)
Instant recovery replaces data restore

FalconStor Continuous Data Protector (CDP) technology provides high-speed local and remote disk-based data protection with instant recovery. By keeping a complete mirrored copy of data in its native format, as well as a series of point-in-time snapshots, the FalconStor CDP solution offers the most rapid and granular recovery possible in all disaster scenarios, including accidental data loss, system corruption, server or storage failures, and site-level loss.

Network Storage Server (NSS)
Heterogeneous storage virtualization and provisioning

FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS) integrates storage virtualization and provisioning across multiple disk arrays and connection protocols for an easy-to-use, scalable SAN solution. FalconStor NSS lets you pool and tier your disk assets, simplifying provisioning, reducing allocation errors, and maximizing resource utilization. It also incorporates a full set of application-aware data protection services.

File-interface Deduplication System (FDS)
Data deduplication made easy

FalconStor File-interface Deduplication System (FDS) offers an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-manage, scalable data repository with deduplication to minimize online storage capacity needs for backup and archiving applications. Integrated data replication is included for disaster recovery.

HyperFS File System (HyperFS)
Digital workflows at hyper-speed

The HyperFS™ solution from FalconStor Software delivers a high-performance, massively scalable file system for data-intensive applications that generate enormous numbers of large files. HyperFS simplifies large file management, while providing high-speed, low-latency file access across a global repository, to meet the demands of any rich media environment.

FalconStor® Continuous Data Protector (CDP) technology reinvents the way you back up and recover data. 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 lets you recover data back to the most recent transaction. Your Recovery Point Objective (RPO) shrinks to mere seconds.

But protection is only part of the solution. FalconStor CDP software delivers fast, reliable recovery, bringing your business back online sooner than you thought possible. Using a wealth of sophisticated technologies — including application integration, physical-to-virtual recovery, and WAN-optimized replication — entire systems can be restored in under ten 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. Your Recovery Time Objective (RTO) changes from hours to minutes, minimizing system downtime and economic impact.

FalconStor® Network Storage Server (NSS) offers intelligent storage virtualization optimized for VMware infrastructure. VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager provides a DR framework for virtualized environments. Both products are tightly integrated, and each was named “2008 Storage Product of the Year” by SearchStorage. With their synergy, FalconStor NSS and VMware Site Recovery Manager lead the charge in backup and disaster recovery (DR) solutions in the virtualized world.

Stop wasting space and budget on over-provisioning of disk resources, and bring new servers and projects online quick and efficiently. The FalconStor NSS solution offers powerful storage provisioning and virtualization, as well as a full set of application-aware data protection services, including real-time synchronous mirroring, volume snapshots, and WAN-optimized data replication for DR.

The HyperFS™ solution delivers a high-performance, massively scalable file system for data-intensive applications that generate enormous numbers of large files. HyperFS simplifies large file management, while providing high-speed, low-latency file access across a global repository, to meet the demands of any rich media environment.

HyperFS optimizes storage performance by providing a single global name space, over 100 petabytes of easily scalable storage capacity, and multiple gigabyte transmission bandwidth. It supports massive data sets, single files as large as 32TB, and concurrent heterogeneous multi-user access. Running on any storage hardware, HyperFS provides full storage subsystem independence and support for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux clients.

FalconStor® Virtual Tape Library (VTL) is the industry’s market-leading virtual tape solution, unmatched in performance and scalability. With virtual tape, backups complete faster and more reliably, with little or no change needed to the backup environment. Your operations don’t change. Your backups just get better. Sophisticated physical tape integration and data security complete the solution.

Designed from the start as an enterprise-class application, FalconStor VTL technology can achieve single node backup speeds of 1.5GB per second, or over 5TB per hour, allowing users to solve the single biggest issue in backup: meeting the backup window. Up to eight nodes can combine into a single logical unit, scaling performance to a remarkable 12GB per second, or 43TB per hour.