LG Hitachi Enters Virtual Tape Library Market in Korea with FalconStor; Distributor to Resell and Distribute VTL with its Portfolio of Storage Products.SEOUL, Korea -- FalconStor Software, Inc. (Nasdaq:FALC FALC Frame And Line Interface Component (electrical engineering) FALC French and African Language and Culture Center ), the premier developer of adaptive data protection solutions, today announced that its award-winning VirtualTape Library (VTL See virtual tape library. ) software has been chosen by LG Hitachi, Ltd. for resale and distribution with LG Hitachi's portfolio of storage solutions in Korea. "LG Hitachi is looking to hold a dominant position in the rapidly growing VTL market in Korea," said Na Hyung-Kyun, LG Hitachi vice president, storage business division. "FalconStor is an obvious choice to help ensure a successful entry into the VTL market. FalconStor's superior functionality in its VTL solution gives us opportunities to deliver the best-performing and most reliable disk-storage to our customers, and fulfills our vision in the storage business." The addition of VTL complements LG Hitachi's existing portfolio of storage and data protection solutions serving its customers in the financial, government, education, and manufacturing industries manufacturing industries npl → industrias fpl manufactureras manufacturing industries npl → industries fpl de transformation . FalconStor's leading and proven VTL technology, combined with the company's high-profile VTL OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and partnerships, were key considerations in LG Hitachi's decision to use FalconStor technology to enter the rapidly emerging VTL market. "Solutions using virtual tape libraries are particularly adept at solving backup, recovery and consolidation issues, and are swiftly gaining widespread recognition across companies of all sizes throughout Korea," said Man Jeong Ha, FalconStor Korea country manager. "We're delighted that LG Hitachi has selected FalconStor technology to help solve the backup and recovery challenges faced by their customers." LG Hitachi will offer VTL appliances targeted for small, midsize and enterprise businesses. Features important to LG Hitachi include the ability to configure two VTL appliances as an active-active cluster for maximizing service availability and eliminating downtime, as well as the flexibility to support 64 virtual tape libraries, 512 virtual tape drives, and 4,096 virtual tapes. FalconStor's VTL software leverages industry standard high-speed disk to provision virtual tape drives and libraries via Fibre Channel (FC), iSCSI or NDMP (Network Data Management Protocol) An open standard for backing up data in a heterogeneous environment. Developed by Network Appliance and IntelliGuard Software, NDMP uses a common data format which is written to and read from drivers for the specific disk and protocol to backup servers attached to an iSCSI/IP or FC storage area network (SAN) to maximize performance and return on investment. FalconStor's ongoing interoperability testing with leading hardware and software solutions ensures seamless integration An addition of a new application, routine or device that works smoothly with the existing system. It implies that the new feature or program can be installed and used without problems. Contrast with "transparent," which implies that there is no discernible change after installation. of VTL into an existing IT environment, while optimizing the overall performance and functionality of VTL and other technologies used by FalconStor customers today. About LG Hitachi, Ltd. Since its establishment in 1986, LG Hitachi has executed business projects in the fields of finance, railroads and communications. Presently, it has 20 Korean affiliates and six Japanese affiliates, such as Hitachi. Also, LG Hitachi contributes to national development by generating high value-added products and promoting Korea's advanced technology to the world by providing state-of-the-art worldwide Information & Communication Solutions, suitably localized considering regional characteristics. LG Hitachi will continue to make great efforts to lead the present and future Information & Communications industry communications industry, broadly defined, the business of conveying information. Although communication by means of symbols and gestures dates to the beginning of human history, the term generally refers to mass communications. . For more information, visit www.lghitachi.co.kr. About FalconStor FalconStor Software, Inc. (Nasdaq:FALC) is the premier developer of adaptive data protection solutions that optimize data center efficiency and business continuity for all IT infrastructures. The company's innovative 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. , continuous data protection (CDP CDP (cytidine diphosphate): see cytosine. (1) (Certificate in Data Processing) An earlier award for the successful completion of an examination in hardware, software, systems analysis, programming, management and accounting, ), disaster recovery, and virtual tape library (VTL) solutions integrate seamlessly to ensure rapid data recovery and simplified storage management. Available from major OEMs, system integrators, and resellers, FalconStor products - including award-winning IPStor(R) and VirtualTape Library software - are deployed worldwide by governments, educational institutions, and Fortune 1000 enterprises across industries including aerospace, energy production, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , healthcare, law, manufacturing, and telecommunications. FalconStor is headquartered in Melville, New York Melville is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Huntington in Suffolk County on Long Island, New York, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, 14,533 people resided there. , with offices throughout Europe and the Asia Pacific region. FalconStor is an active 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 1-866-NOW-FALC (866-669-3252). This press release includes forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include: delays in product development; market acceptance of FalconStor's products and services; technological change in the storage and networking industries; competition in the network storage software market; the potential failure of FalconStor's OEM partners to introduce or to market products incorporating FalconStor's products; intellectual property issues; 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, FalconStor Software and IPStor are registered trademarks of FalconStor Software, Inc. All other company and product names contained herein may be trademarks of the respective holders. |
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