Wroclaw Centre for Networking and Supercomputing Chooses IPStor to Consolidate Storage Area Network Management for Hundreds of Heterogeneous Servers.WROCLAW, Poland -- FalconStor Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: FALC FALC Frame And Line Interface Component (electrical engineering) FALC French and African Language and Culture Center ), the leading developer of proven data protection solutions, today announced that the Wroclaw Centre for Networking and Supercomputing (WCNS WCNS Wireless Calling Name Service (Lucent) ), one of Poland's leading academic centers for technology excellence, has deployed FalconStor's IPStor(R) software to consolidate 2TB of fragmented, difficult-to-manage data stored on direct-attached storage Direct-attached storage (DAS) refers to a digital storage system directly attached to a server or workstation, without a storage network in between. It is a retronym, mainly used to differentiate non-networked storage from SAN and NAS. across its network. The institution's network comprises hundreds of heterogeneous servers running various flavors of Irix, Linux, Solaris, and Unix. FalconStor partnered with Polcom to integrate the IPStor solution at WCNS. It was the vast array of equipment, infrastructure and protocols already in use at WCNS, together with the organization's desire to reuse as much of it as possible, that inspired the centre's IT managers to deploy IPStor, which offers unrivalled heterogeneity. The result is an environment that is both virtualized and service-enabled, on an infrastructure comprising both a storage area network and network attached storage, over both Fibre Channel and iSCSI. One of the major benefits of virtualizing storage from so many servers is the huge reduction in effort required to perform a full backup See backup types. . With IPStor, the backup process requires much less administrative and processing time, yet is more complete and reliable. Capacity management is also improved, as administrators can easily allocate storage to any application or server anywhere on the network on an as-needed basis. Administrators use the IPStor Java-based management console A terminal or workstation used to monitor and control a network. See Microsoft Management Console. to perform all operations. Many of the servers on the WCNS network had been primarily used for file serving for supercomputing network services and to run software for supercomputing. File serving is now performed by an ADIC StorNext FileSystem. With the scalability of the overall solution, WCNS will easily be able to manage its current annual data growth rate of 100 percent. To provide the highest levels of 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. in its supercomputing environment, WCNS deployed the IPStor software in a high-availability configuration. Two IPStor appliances coexist in an active-active failover configuration, with SafeCache ensuring minimal disruption in the event one of the appliances fails for any reason. In view of the demanding data access requirements in a networked supercomputing environment, WCNS also chose to implement the IPStor DynaPath(R) agent. The DynaPath Agent is an application server resident utility that maximizes data availability for storage systems by creating parallel active storage paths that transparently reroute application server traffic to a redundant storage path without interruption in the event of a storage network problem. "It is the nature of academic IT infrastructures that they become disparate, heterogeneous and sometimes unwieldy," said Pawel Dziekonski, Storage Team Leader, High Performance Computer Departament, WCNS. "And yet we are running supercomputing research projects in just such an environment. IPStor has enabled us to improve the overall performance of our network, redeploying the majority of our existing investment in hardware, software and networking equipment while reducing the administration required to deliver the storage services we need. This is a double-win for us." "This installation is really a showcase for the hardware and operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. independence that customers can achieve using IPStor software," said Guy Berlo, regional director, central region, FalconStor. "At WCNS, IPStor is now the glue that binds the infrastructure together, making it stronger and more effective than it was previously. And in deploying IPStor, we protected the valuable investment in the infrastructure that the institution had already amassed." About Wroclaw Centre for Networking and Supercomputing Founded in 1995, the Wroclaw Centre for Networking and Supercomputing (WCNS) is an organizational unit of Wroclaw University of Technology. Its main tasks are operating and developing the Wroclaw Academic Computer Network (WACN), operating and developing high-performance computing servers, and operating and developing network information services See NIS. for Wroclaw University of Technology and for all the universities and research institutions in Wroclaw. 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, 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 A hard disk array that emulates a tape library. A virtual tape library (VTL) enables the storage medium to be switched from tapes to disks while continuing to use the existing tape backup software. See virtual tape system and storage virtualization. (VTL See virtual tape library. ) 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, 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 (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 Software, FalconStor, IPStor and DynaPath 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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