FalconStor Demonstrates Industry's First Storage Networking Software With Security, Availability, and Total Storage Freedom.Business & High Tech Editors Networld+Interop Atlanta 2001 ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 10, 2001 Official Launch of IPStor 2.0 Showcases Its Broad Interoperability With Over 20 Leading Fibre Channel, SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. , iSCSI and Enterprise Management Technology Providers at Networld+Interop FalconStor Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: FALC FALC Frame And Line Interface Component (electrical engineering) FALC French and African Language and Culture Center ), a leading storage networking infrastructure software company, today announced it is partnering with premier storage networking technology partners to showcase virtualized SAN and NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular storage over Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and IP with broad interoperability, high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. , strong security, and high performance during Networld+Interop in Atlanta, September 11-13, in booth #2049. Many industry-first capabilities will be demonstrated, including: key-based authentication to ensure total security for both Fibre Channel and IP; rule-based auto-capacity management; unified SAN and NAS under a single virtual storage infrastructure; and simultaneous protocol support for both Fibre Channel and iSCSI/IP. There will be over 20 business partners in FalconStor's booth, demonstrating their product's interoperability with the newly announced IPStor(TM) software version 2.0, ranging from host bus adapters (Fibre Channel and iSCSI HBA (Host Bus Adapter) See host adapter. ), disk storage subsystems, tape libraries, network interface card (NIC (1) (Network Interface Card) See network adapter. See also InterNIC. (2) (New Internet Computer) An earlier Linux-based computer from The New Internet Computer Company (NICC), Palo Alto, CA. ), and enterprise management vendors. Business partners demonstrating interoperability and exhibiting at FalconStor's booth include Accton, Adaptec, ADIC, ATTO Quintillionth (10 to the -18th power). See space/time. , Dot Hill, Extreme Networks, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Imperial, Inline, Intel, IP Metrics, Legato, MTI MTI Ministry of Trade and Industry (Singapore) MTI Metal Treating Institute MTI Moving Target Indicator (radar) MTI Magyar Távirati Iroda (news agency in Budapest, Hungary) , QLogic, Quantum|ATL (Active Template Library) A set of software routines from Microsoft that provide the basic framework for creating ActiveX and COM objects. Stemming from the standard template library (STL) that comes with C++ compilers, ATL includes an object wizard that sets up , RARE Systems, SANergy, Solution Soft, StorageTek, SysKonnect, Texas Memory Systems, and Winchester Systems. "FalconStor is committed to supporting all industry standards and protocols, and today's launch of IPStor 2.0 goes a long way towards fulfilling that pledge," said Dan Tanner, senior analyst of Aberdeen Group Aberdeen Group is a provider of business-related research services. It has its headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts and belongs to the Harte-Hanks group. Founded in 1988, Aberdeen's research is used by over 2. . "IPStor's successful interoperability with Fibre Channel, iSCSI, SCSI and IP underscores its commitment to enable customers to manage the growing storage demands of the enterprise with total freedom." New core features for IPStor 2.0 include adding Solaris as another platform to run the IPStor Server (in addition to Linux,) and Fibre Channel connectivity on the host side, thereby greatly expanding the supported platforms for host application servers to include NetWare, Macintosh, HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , IBM AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , and generally any system equipped with Fibre Channel HBA. New options include storage capacity-on-demand, achieving fully automated storage provisioning based on a set policy or thresholds, and a database snapshot agent of an active database, enabling backup with full referential integrity A database management safeguard that ensures every foreign key matches a primary key. For example, customer numbers in a customer file are the primary keys, and customer numbers in the order file are the foreign keys. without impacting the application server. FalconStor is highlighting at N+I, the total storage freedom that IPStor 2.0 provides in building a storage network, allowing customers to choose SAN and/or NAS access, Fibre Channel and/or iSCSI/IP connectivity, Linux and/or Solaris as the back-end storage virtualization Treating storage as a single logical entity without regard to the hierarchy of physical media that may be involved or that may change. It enables the applications to read from and write to a single pool of storage rather then individual disks, tapes and optical devices. server (IPStor), all on top of a full suite of essential storage services, such as virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. , capacity-on-demand, active-active failover, offsite replication, mirroring, zero-impact backup and restore enablers, and database-aware snapshot for total point-in-time integrity. "FalconStor is dedicated to partnering with leading Fibre Channel and iSCSI HBA, disk storage, NIC, tape library, and enterprise management vendors to ensure rapid and seamless deployment of networked storage, whether they prefer Fibre Channel, iSCSI, SCIS SCIS Southern Center for International Studies SCIS Survivable Communications Integration System SCIS Support Criminal Investigation System (UK) SCIS Symposium on Cryptography and Information Security and/or IP," said Wayne Lam, FalconStor vice president of marketing. "We work closely with our business partners to give customers total storage freedom." Comments from FalconStor's Strategic Business Partners: Adaptec "Adaptec's AEA-7110C iSCSI host bus adapter combined with FalconStor's IPStor virtualization software gives our mutual customers a comprehensive set of enterprise level virtual storage services such as Mirroring, Snapshot, and Remote Replication, all over IP," said Bryce Mackin, iSCSI marketing product manager at Adaptec. "The reliability and performance exhibited by the combination of Adaptec's iSCSI HBA and FalconStor's IPStor shows that iSCSI has arrived." Dot Hill "FalconStor's vision to extend existing SAN storage with virtualization and storage services, and then provisioning the storage via Fibre Channel, iSCSI or IP is totally in line with Dot Hill's commitment to provide high quality, value-added storage solutions," said Dana Kammersgard, Chief Technology Officer, Dot Hill Systems. "IPStor meets the same rigorous reliability standards that Dot Hill uses to service the world's largest global communications networks. The combination of IPStor and Dot Hill products provides an unprecedented level of connectivity between Fibre Channel SANs and IP networks." IBM "IBM is collaborating with storage technology vendors such as FalconStor to address and demonstrate interoperability across today's storage network infrastructure," said Paul Mattson, iSCSI brand manager for IBM. "By working together, we can help customers leverage the benefits gained from achieving a high standard of compatibility between IBM's IP storage infrastructure products, and FalconStor's IPStor." Legato "With the open architecture and heterogeneous protocol support of IPStor 2.0, FalconStor has greatly simplified the consolidation and management of enterprise storage," said Charles Fonner, vice president, worldwide marketing, Legato Systems. "Legato's customers consistently face the challenges of information growth and management, and are having to consider how these tremendous amounts of growth will affect their IT and business processes. Our partnership with FalconStor provides the best-in-class solutions that today's customers require in order to succeed." QLogic "The thought of putting data on a public IP network makes security a major IT concern," said Frank Berry, vice president of corporate marketing, QLogic Corp. "FalconStor addresses this and more to provide a complete IP storage solution." Quantum|ATL "IT managers responsible for enterprise storage are taking great interest in the combination of Quantum|ATL's new best-in-class P7000 enterprise tape library and the essential data security services Security services are state institutions for the provision of intelligence, primarily of a strategic nature, but also including protective security intelligence. Examples include the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the United Kingdom, and the found in FalconStor's IPStor such as snapshot imaging to eliminate backup windows," said Gene Nagle, Quantum|ATL product line manager. "We are pleased with the powerful solutions that have resulted from our partnership with FalconStor." StorageTek "FalconStor's IPStor solution provides disk pooling and resource sharing as well as easier management of resources in SAN and SAN/IP environments," said Tim Steadman, StorageTek vice president, Disk Business Unit. "The combination of these two solutions provides the customer with centralized storage, high availability as well as seamless scalability and performance where users can benefit from simultaneously operating in a SAN while transferring storage data on IP networks." SysKonnect "SysKonnect Gigabit Ethernet An Ethernet standard that transmits at 1 Gbps. Used mostly to connect high-end workstations and servers as well as for network backbones, Gigabit Ethernet transmits full duplex from point to point using switches and half duplex in a shared environment (CSMA/CD) using a hub. NICs and FalconStor software are the ideal combination for high speed, high performance storage networks, even for midrange enterprises. IPStor leverages SysKonnect's advanced Gigabit Ethernet features, such as bandwidth management Controlling the traffic flow in a network. See bandwidth manager. and link aggregation See port aggregation. , to yield tunable, scalable performance that will outpace the competition," said Tim Clark Timothy Henry Clark (born 17 December 1975) is a South African golfer. Clark was born in Durban, South Africa. He took up golf at the age of three and was taught to play by his father. , SysKonnect vice president of Worldwide Sales. "Thanks to FalconStor, our components have more value, functionality and revenue potential than ever before." During N+I, FalconStor is also a participating vendor at the InteropNet Labs (iLabs). Attendees can see IPStor's interoperability with other storage products in the Storage Area Networks portion of the testing, showcased in the iLabs area of the show floor. About IPStor IPStor is a storage networking software infrastructure that enables companies to utilize storage efficiently, execute backup quickly, expand capacity smoothly, and significantly reduce total storage management costs. It provides vital storage services-virtualization, active-active failover, capacity-on-demand, remote replication, mirroring, application-aware snapshot, zero-impact backup/restore enablers, and more--through a software-only design that runs on existing industry standard hardware. By incorporating today's well established data transport protocols (Fibre Channel, SCSI and IP) as well as emerging standards such as iSCSI and InfiniBand, IPStor provides both SAN and NAS to companies with immediate total freedom of choice in connectivity and storage hardware. Its future-proof architecture allows companies to stay on top of their ever-evolving data storage requirements. About FalconStor FalconStor Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: FALC), is a company founded with the mission to help enterprises rise above ever-expanding storage complexities and costs by providing the first software-only storage networking solution that simplifies storage management while drastically reducing total cost of ownership. With an unprecedented combination of manageability, performance, security, and flexibility, FalconStor's flagship product, IPStor(TM), transcends the limitations that have historically confined SANs to local data centers. Founded in 2000, FalconStor is headquartered in Melville, NY. International offices include Paris, France; Taichung, Taiwan; and Tokyo, Japan. FalconStor is a voting member of the Storage Networking Industry Association An association of producers and consumers of storage networking products, whose goal is to further storage networking technology and applications. The Storage Networking Industry Association, or SNIA (SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association, San Francisco, CA, www.snia.org) An organization devoted to the advancement of mission critical storage systems. Founded in 1997, its goal is to determine the standards that must be developed to allow hosts and storage systems to interact via ). For more information, visit www.falconstor.com or call 1-631-777-5188. With the exception of historical information, the statements set forth above include forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include: the early stage of FalconStor's business; potential delays in product development by FalconStor; market acceptance of FalconStor's products and services; rapid technological change in the storage and networking industries; competition in the storage networking software market; the ability to achieve profitability; potential issues involving intellectual property and other disputes; and other risk factors discussed in FalconStor's reports on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Copyright (c) 2001 by FalconStor. FalconStor and IPStor are trademarks of FalconStor, Inc. 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