Sodexho Belgium Vouches for FalconStor in Data Protection and Storage Flexibility; World Leader in Food and Management Services Chooses IPStor Software for Business Continuity and High Availability.BRUSSELS, Belgium -- FalconStor Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: FALC FALC Frame And Line Interface Component (electrical engineering) FALC French and African Language and Culture Center ), a leading developer of network storage software solutions, today announced that Sodexho Service Vouchers & Cards of Belgium has implemented IPStor(R) software for high data availability Refers to the degree to which data can be instantly accessed. The term is mostly associated with service levels that are set up either by the internal IT organization or that may be guaranteed by a third party datacenter or storage provider. and data protection. The IPStor solution was implemented by FalconStor channel partner, the COMPAREX Group. Sodexho Service Vouchers & Cards --part of the Sodexho Group, a global market leader in Food and Management Services and Service Vouchers and Cards, ranks second worldwide, with more than 2,700 employees in 27 countries. The company touts over 293,000 private and public sectors clients and nearly 13 million beneficiaries with a full range of innovative services. Sodexho Belgium distributes and manages a host of services for both the private and public sectors, which range from traditional luncheon vouchers, gift vouchers, sports & culture vouchers, training vouchers, wellness vouchers to internet services for employees at home and incentive services. More than 120 million vouchers are issued every year in Belgium, and with the emergence of virtual vouchers, Sodexho wanted to make sure its IT infrastructure was efficient enough to guarantee constant data availability and optimal responsiveness, in line with the service expectations of its customers. Storage and high data availability became crucial elements to Sodexho's business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets . "Customers are expecting to take advantage of their allowance straight away and at any time. A delay of a few hours to restore service following an incident or disaster was considered sufficient in the past, but now the demand is for restoration in a matter of minutes A Matter of Minutes is an episode from the television series The New Twilight Zone. Cast
In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a cost-effective solution with real-time data Real-time data denotes information that is delivered immediately after collection. There is no delay in the timeliness of the information provided. Some uses of this term confuse it with the term dynamic data. replication, 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. and rapid recovery to avoid any downtime, and enlisted COMPAREX to overhaul our storage environment. Their recommendation of FalconStor's IPStor solution proved to address all of our IT challenges." Prior to the storage refurbishment, Sodexho's storage environment at its two locations in Belgium consisted primarily of direct-attached storage. COMPAREX instituted a storage-area network, and deployed IPStor servers configured in an active-active failover mode at Sodexho's primary data center for high availability. The IPStor solution is also providing storage consolidation, aggregation and provisioning, and heterogeneous storage support. Sodexho is employing near-real-time replication between its two locations, via a non-dedicated optical Fibre connection, using a third of the 100 Mbps bandwidth, with the remainder being used for production. Other considerable business advantages FalconStor brings to Sodexho are under future consideration, which include the data protection of its Oracle and Exchange databases. FalconStor also gives Sodexho storage flexibility, as well as a solution that can grow along with its storage environment. "Sodexho is the leader in food and management services," said Vincent Pajot, regional director, Southern region, FalconStor. "COMPAREX and FalconStor have delivered the benefits of having an efficient, automated and consolidated storage environment that maximizes 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). on technology investments. This has enabled Sodexho to focus budget and staff resources on further modernizing and improving the quality of the voucher services they provide to their community." About SODEXHO ALLIANCE Founded in Marseille in 1966 by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Pierre Bellon, Sodexho Alliance is the world's leading provider of food and management services. With more than 313,000 employees on 24,900 sites in 76 countries, Sodexho Alliance reported consolidated sales of 11.5 billion euros for the fiscal year that ended on August 31, 2004. The Sodexho Alliance share has been listed since 1983 on the Euronext Paris Bourse bourse (b  rs), term applied to a European stock exchange. The first international bourse was established in Antwerp in the 16th cent. , where its market value totals 4 billion euros. The Sodexho Alliance share has been listed since April 3, 2002, on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. . About COMPAREX The core competence Core competence Primary area of expertise. Narrowly defined fields or tasks at which a company or business excels. Primary areas of specialty. of the COMPAREX Group is focused around technologies and solutions for data centre. Having more than 30 years experience in the data centre, COMPAREX has detailed knowledge of the requirements and needs in such environments, especially in terms of flexibility, security and high availability (The Availability Architects). Main elements of the COMPAREX portfolio are build on Infrastructure Solutions, Services and Consultancy. The COMPAREX Group employs approximately 700 people and has a network of offices and service centres in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia and Spain. For more information, visit www.comparex-group.com. About FalconStor FalconStor Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: FALC) is a leading developer of innovative network storage software that optimizes the protection and availability of enterprise and SMB (1) (Small to Medium-sized Business) Also called "SME" (small to medium-sized enterprise), it refers to companies that are larger than the small office/home office (SOHO), but not huge. data and applications, ensuring nonstop business productivity while simplifying storage and backup management to reduce operational costs. FalconStor's award-winning solutions--IPStor(R) Enterprise Edition, VirtualTape Library, and iSCSI Storage Server--are available from major OEMs, system integrators, and resellers, and are deployed worldwide by governments, educational institutions, and Fortune 1000 enterprises across industries including aerospace, energy production, financial services, healthcare, law, manufacturing, and telecommunications. FalconStor is headquartered in Melville, NY, with offices throughout Europe and the Asia Pacific regions including Paris, Tokyo and Taiwan. FalconStor is an active member of the Technical Support Alliance Network (TSANet), 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 ) and Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA FCIA See: Foreign Credit Insurance Association ). 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 (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 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 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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