FalconStor and StorageTek Join Forces to Deliver Integrated Network Storage Solution.Business Editors Networld+Interop Atlanta 2001 ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 11, 2001 Joint Certification Program Enables Storage To Be Virtualized, Provisioned Over Fibre Channel and/or IP-based Storage Area Network (SAN) 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 company, and StorageTek (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :STK), an expert in high-performance, efficient digitized data storage, today announced their collaboration to enable customers a high-performance, secure network storage solution across Fibre Channel or IP-based SAN. The two companies have jointly tested and cross certified StorageTek's 9176 Disk Subsystem and FalconStor's IPStor(TM) software. StorageTek's 9176 disc storage system brings high performance and SAN-ready features for customers to reap the benefits of open, hassle-free SAN environments. IPStor provides a storage networking software  This article is written like a personal reflection or and may require .Please [ improve this article] by rewriting this article in an . infrastructure that enables companies to utilize storage efficiently, execute backup quickly, expand capacity smoothly, and significantly reduce total storage management costs. The combination of these two solutions provides customers with centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. storage, disk pooling, 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. , seamless scalability and performance. "Our customers use StorageTek solutions for business-critical applications where systems need to stay running reliably in 24 x 7 x forever environments," said Tim Steadman, StorageTek vice president, Disk Business Unit. "Automated information storage, where organizations can set high-level IT policies to automatically eliminate the `out of space' problem is addressed by FalconStor's IPStor. Our aim is to help customers do more with less, driving their costs down while maximizing ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). ." "FalconStor will continue to drive its commitment to providing fully interoperable, highly scalable solutions through successful product certifications Product certification or product qualification is the process of certifying that a certain product has passed performance and/or quality assurance tests or qualification requirements stipulated in regulations such as a building code and nationally accredited test standards, with mission-critical solutions such as StorageTek's 9176 disk subsystem," said Wayne Lam, FalconStor vice president of marketing. "Joint certifications such as this ensure quality and compatibility of data mobility - a key element for the protection of business-critical information." Further strengthening their commitment, FalconStor and StorageTek will demonstrate their product's interoperability with the newly announced IPStor software version 2.0, at FalconStor's booth, # 2049, during Networld+Interop this week. The StorageTek 9176 Disk Subsystem is a full-Fibre RAID disk subsystem supporting NT, Windows 2000, SUN, HP, RS/6000, SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. , Novell and Java-enabled operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . It consists of two components: the StorageTek 9176 Disk Controller and up to 20 StorageTek 9170 Disk Subsystem for 14.4 terabytes of capacity. Presented with a suite of software management tools, the 9176 Disk Subsystem enables functions such as data replication, cluster management, LUN masking mask·ing n. 1. The concealment or the screening of one sensory process or sensation by another. 2. An opaque covering used to camouflage the metal parts of a prosthesis. and array management through a centralized common user interface. IPStor 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 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. and IP) as well as emerging standards like iSCSI and InfiniBand, IPStor provides both 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 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 StorageTek StorageTek (NYSE:STK), a $2 billion worldwide company with headquarters in Louisville, Colo., delivers a broad range of storage solutions for digitized data. StorageTek solutions are easy to manage and allow universal access to data across servers, media types and storage networks. StorageTek is the innovator and global leader in virtual storage solutions for tape automation, disk storage systems and storage networking. Because of StorageTek, customers can manage and leverage their digital assets as their businesses grow and can maximize IT productivity to ensure enterprise-class business continuity. For more information, see www.storagetek.com, or call 1.800.786.7835. 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 A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , 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 forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. 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. FalconStor and IPStor are trademarks of FalconStor, Inc. StorageTek is a registered trademark of Storage Technology Corp. All other company and product names contained herein are trademarks of the respective holders. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion