High performance VTL with massively scalable clustered deduplication

FalconStor® VTL Enterprise Edition provides large organizations with high-performance enterprise-level disk-based data protection to meet backup demands, simplify tape management, and enhance tape security. It is integrated with FalconStor Single Instance Repository (SIR) to deliver post-process global deduplication without impacting the backup window. With SIR, only unique data blocks are replicated to the remote site, slashing network traffic over 95%. Offering multi-node scalability, FalconStor VTL emulates vast arrays of tape libraries, drives, and cartridges, ensuring complete backup transparency. By enabling companies to keep backup data on disk, FalconStor VTL significantly improves the speed and dependability of recovery.

Highlights

• Industry-leading VTL solution
• High-speed Fibre Channel (FC) and iSCSI SAN support
• Scales up to 8 nodes as a single group of 4 VTL high availability (HA) pairs with linear performance
• Next-generation deduplication architecture using SIR supports N+1 cluster up to 4 nodes; repository can scale up to 256TB
• Global deduplication optimizes replication bandwidth utilization for disaster recovery (DR)
• Optimal storage efficiency through tape format-aware data deduplication and compression
• Tape caching, multi-tape export, and tape consolidation streamline media management
• Supports one-to-one and many-to-one offsite replication for DR
• Centralized management reduces IT administration costs
• Tape security and data encryption protect sensitive data
• TOTALLY Open™ architecture supports the wildest range of backup software, disk drives, arrays, tape drives, and libraries

Turnkey appliances with high-speed VTL and optimized data deduplication

FalconStor® VTL Storage Appliances are cost-effective solutions that use disk to enhance the reliability, speed, and availability of tape backups. These easy-to-use, plug-and-play appliances bring the market-leading enterprise-level VTL technology and built-in data deduplication to your small-to-medium business (SMB) or remote/branch offices (ROBO), and are perfect for organizations with limited IT resources.

Highlights

• iSCSI and Fibre Channel (FC) SAN support for fast and reliable backup and restore
• Built-in post-process deduplication technology eliminates redundant data to minimize network bandwidth requirements without impacting the backup window
• Tape format awareness accelerates and optimizes the identification of duplicate data
• Seamless integration with existing backup software and physical tape libraries
• Optimizes storage and bandwidth efficiency for near-line storage and offsite disaster recovery (DR)
• Cost-effective TOTALLY Open™, massively scalable solutions for organizations of all sizes
• Available as a virtual appliance for VMware Virtual Infrastructure

The only VTL solution that improves the quality and efficiency of tape backup in virtual enviroments

FalconStor® VirtualTape Library (VTL) Virtual Appliance is a preinstalled, preconfigured, and ready-to-run software application packaged with an operating system inside a virtual machine—bringing the market-leading enterprise-level VTL technology with data deduplication to virtual environments. Developed for quick and easy deployment, the solution reduces infrastructure costs and complexity while maximizing the value of your storage investments. The FalconStor VTL Virtual Appliance vastly improves the speed, reliability, and manageability of backups while optimizing storage and bandwidth efficiency for disaster recovery (DR) and continuous data availability.

Highlights

• iSCSI SAN support for fast and reliable backup and restore
• Built-in post-process deduplication technology eliminates redundant data to minimize network bandwidth requirements without impacting the backup window
• Tape format awareness accelerates and optimizes the identification of duplicate data
• TOTALLY Open™ architecture offers seamless integration with existing backup software and physical tape libraries
• Optimizes storage and bandwidth efficiency for near-line storage and offsite DR
• Ideal for any organization running a VMware Virtual Infrastructure environment
• Enables remote replication for DR

Realtime, disk-based data protection for instant, granular recovery to any point in time

FalconStor® CDP delivers the most innovative backup and recovery solution to protect application servers, in large organizations. FalconStor CDP replaces conventional, slow tape-based solutions with the industry's fastest, most granular recovery solution for mission-critical databases, messaging data, files, and even entire systems in the event of hardware or software failures and site-level disasters. With FalconStor CDP, you can replace or enhance your existing backup solution with continuous journaling and any-point-in-time recovery, to protect data between regularly scheduled backups, minimize data loss, and keep business going during planned or unplanned outages.

Recover With FalconStor

• Recover files and databases in 1 minute
• Mailbox recovery in 3 minutes
• Physical-to-physical (P2P) recovery in 5 minutes
• Physical server-to-virtual machine (P2V) recovery in 10 minutes
• Recover entire site in 30 minutes

• TOTALLY Open™ architecture integrates with existing storage environment and offers massive scalability
• High-performance SAN (iSCSI, Fibre Channel [FC] and InfiniBand) support
• Achieve or exceed RPO and RTO objectives, to optimize productivity and service levels
• Lets you use cost-efficient, high-speed nearline disk storage
• Application-aware Snapshot Agents ensure 100% transactional consistency and point-in-time integrity
• Offsite storage and DR through integrated FalconStor Replication
• TimeMark® technology enables fast, intelligent rollback to any point in time
• TimeView® technology creates an accessible, mountable delta snapshot image to create multiple and instantaneous virtual copies of an active data set for temporary use
• MicroScan™ replication and compression technology minimizes network bandwidth requirements
• Quickly and easily archive to tape using HyperTrac™ Backup Accelerator
• DiskSafe protects DAS and SAN for Microsoft Windows-based application servers
• Offloads backup overhead from production hosts; eliminates backup windows
• Integrated storage virtualization, mirroring, and active-active failover for high availability
• Protects remote offices by enabling them to maintain a current copy of their data at a central data center

Complete disk-based data protection appliances with instant recovery

FalconStor® CDP Appliances are easy-to-use turnkey appliances that deliver the most innovative backup and recovery solution to small-to-medium businesses (SMB) and remote/branch offices (ROBO). FalconStor CDP replaces conventional, slow tape-based solutions with the industry's fastest, most granular recovery solution for mission-critical databases, messaging data, files, and even entire systems. With FalconStor CDP Appliances, you can replace or enhance your existing backup solution with continuous journaling and any-point-in-time recovery, to protect data between regularly scheduled backups, minimize data loss, and keep business going during planned or unplanned outages.

Recover With FalconStor

• Recover files and databases in 1 minute
• Mailbox recovery in 3 minutes
• Physical-to-physical (P2P) recovery in 5 minutes
• Physical server-to-virtual machine (P2V) recovery in 10 minutes
• Recover entire site in 30 minutes

• TOTALLY Open™ architecture enables non-disruptive integration with existing infrastructure
• Protect application servers, desktops, and laptops using cost-efficient nearline disk storage
• iSCSI SAN support
• Easy to install and manage
• Fast recovery optimizes productivity and service levels
• 100% transactional integrity via application-aware Snapshot Agents
• Offload backup overhead from production hosts and eliminate the backup window
• Offsite storage and DR through integrated FalconStor Replication
• TimeMark® technology enables fast, intelligent rollback
• TimeView® technology creates an accessible, mountable delta snapshot image to create multiple and instantaneous virtual copies of an active data set for temporary use
• DiskSafe protects DAS and SAN for Microsoft Windows-based application servers
• Quickly and easily archive to tape using HyperTrac™ Backup Accelerator
• Integrated Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes message recovery
• Allows cross-mirroring with two appliances for cost-effective, high availability data protection
• Also available as a virtual appliance for VMware Virtual Infrastructure

The first solution for complete data protection and continuous availability across physical and virtual systems

The FalconStor® CDP Virtual Appliance for VMware Virtual Infrastructure is a pre-built, pre-configured, TOTALLY Open™ and ready-to-run software application packaged with an operating system in a virtual machine. Offering advanced disk-based data protection technology, it protects physical and virtual servers simultaneously for continuous data availability, eliminating data loss from corruption or failure.

The CDP Virtual Appliance for VMware Virtual Infrastructure offers the industry's fastest, most granular recovery of mission-critical databases, messaging data, files, and even entire systems, and enables you to consolidate data assets and simplify data protection. The result is a more flexible, cost-effective, simplified infrastructure that reduces storage management overhead and rapidly adapts to changing business requirements.

Continuous availability for physical and virtual machines and systems

• Recover files and databases in 1 minute
• Virtual-to-virtual (V2V) recovery in 2 minutes
• Mailbox recovery in 3 minutes
• Physical-to-physical (P2P) recovery in 5 minutes
• Physical server-to-virtual machine (P2V) recovery in 10 minutes
• Recover entire site in 30 minutes

• Fully integrated with the VMware ESX server
• Up to 64 TimeMark delta snapshots per backup image
• HyperTrac™ Backup Accelerator eliminates backup window and impact on host performance
• Remote replication against unplanned disasters

TOTALLY Open™ enterprise-class storage virtualization, provisioning, and management

FalconStor® NSS provides high-performance SAN primary storage combined with enterprise-class storage virtualization, provisioning, and management. Thin provisioning and capacity-on-demand capabilities help automate storage resource allocation and capacity management while virtualization provides centralized management for heterogeneous storage environments. FalconStor NSS includes the FalconStor TimeMark® snapshot capability for transactionally consistent, instant recovery to known points in time—helping IT meet recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO). Data stored on FalconStor NSS appliances may be replicated to another NSS appliance via IP for realtime disaster recovery (DR) protection. Delta-based FalconStor Replication uses FalconStor MicroScan™ technology, which reduces the amount of data being transferred by sending only the changed sectors within a block. Replication includes encryption for security and compression for reduced bandwidth requirements. FalconStor NSS appliances are available with internal and external storage.

Highlights

• High-speed Fibre Channel (FC) SAN support for high performance
• Supports InfiniBand (iSER) for a single, high-speed connection for both network and storage
• iSCSI SAN included for flexibility
• Appliances available with high-speed SAS or cost effective SATA drives
• Thin provisioning and capacity on demand to centralize and automate storage resource allocation and capacity management
• The only 2-node active-active solution offering complete redundancy for ultra-high availability
• Application-aware Snapshot Agents ensure 100% transactional and point-in-time integrity, without lengthy consistency checks
• TimeMark® technology enables fast, intelligent rollback to any point in time
• TimeView® technology creates an accessible, mountable delta snapshot image to create multiple and instantaneous virtual copies of an active data set for temporary use
• Effective DR using FalconStor Replication to copy data offsite across any distance over IP
• Block-level delta-based replication via MicroScan technology to overcome bandwidth constraints.
• Data encryption ensures end-to-end security without additional overhead
• HyperTrac™ Backup Accelerator technology improves backup to tape by over 400%
• Microsoft VSS-compliant; integrated with Oracle RMAN, ASM
• Appliances certified for VMware Virtual Infrastructure

Easy-to-use SAN appliances with enterprise-class reliability and performance

FalconStor® NSS Appliances deliver scalable plug-and-play iSCSI SAN primary storage for small/medium businesses (SMB) and remote offices (ROBO). NSS Appliances include virtualization and provisioning for easy management and use. Thin provisioning and capacity-on-demand capabilities help automate storage resource allocation and capacity management while virtualization provides centralized management for heterogeneous storage environments. All appliances include FalconStor TimeMark® snapshot capabilities for transactionally consistent, instant data recovery to any point in time. Data stored on NSS Appliances may be replicated to another appliance via IP using the FalconStor Replication option.

Highlights

• iSCSI and Fibre Channel (FC) SAN support for flexibility
• Cost-effective internal SATA drives
• Synchronous cross-mirroring and active/active failover ensures high availability at a low cost
• Application-aware Snapshot Agents ensure 100% transactional integrity
• FalconStor TimeView® technology creates an accessible, mountable delta snapshot image to create multiple and instantaneous virtual copies of an active data set for temporary use
• IP-based replication using FalconStor Replication
• Microsoft VSS-compliant
• TOTALLY Open™ architecture enables non-disruptive integration with existing architecture
• Certified for VMware Virtual Infrastructure

Next-generation deduplication with clustering and high availability

FalconStor® Single Instance Repository (SIR) delivers a powerful combination of backup/restore performance, availability, and scalability to FalconStor Virtual Tape Library (VTL) users. As the first VTL deduplication clustering architecture to deliver multi-node linear scalability and high availability failover, FalconStor SIR eliminates duplicate data from the virtual tape library post-process, without affecting backup policies, procedures, or software. FalconStor SIR minimizes storage requirements to keep more data online for longer periods of time, reducing replication bandwidth requirements and overall data protection costs.

The FalconStor Advantage

• Industry's first multi-node, scalable data deduplication solution supporting N+1 clustering up to 4 nodes
• Post-process deduplication ensures no impact to backup performance
• Multi-node cluster scales up to 256TB
• Tape format-aware for highest deduplication rate and fastest recovery
• No change to data protection policies, procedures, or software for maximum asset value protection
• Seamless integration with FalconStor VTL for instant, non-disruptive deployment

Simple, comprehensive virtualized storage

FalconStor® Modular Storage Unit (MSU) offers affordable, integrated Fibre Channel (FC) and iSCSI storage for FalconStor VirtualTape Library (VTL), Continuous Data Protector™ (CDP), and Network Storage Server (NSS) Gateway Appliances. Based on the award-winning FalconStor IPStor® virtualization platform, this virtualized storage appliance is easy to deploy and offers up to 18TB of capacity. FalconStor MSU supports both 1Gb iSCSI and 4Gb FC in one convenient, integrated package, giving you the scalability and flexibility to meet growing data protection needs and adapt to changing requirements.

Highlights

• Simple deployment and management
• Offers up to 18TB of capacity per unit
• Low-cost solution consumes minimal physical storage space
• Supports both 1Gb iSCSI and 4Gb FC in one convenient, integrated package
• TOTALLY Open™ architecture for unprecedented flexibility and massive scalability

Storage security solution for regulatory compliance

FalconStor® WORMLock™ appliances help enterprises comply with increasing data retention regulations by using cost-effective disk as write-once, read-many (WORM) storage. Available as either a turnkey appliance or a software appliance kit (SAK), WORMLock provides a simple, efficient way to securely store data for compliance.

Highlights

• Creates a secure tamper-proof data retention solution with active monitoring
• Provides a secure auditable solution by logging all attempts to access to WORMLock volumes, including files and directories within those volumes
• Configurable to meet industry standards for compliance regulations, including data retention and preservation
• TOTALLY Open™ external storage model can manage different protocols (iSCSI or Fibre Channel [FC]) from multiple vendors simultaneously
• Scalable solutions supporting up to 18TB per appliance
• Minimizes total cost of ownership (TCO) by leveraging existing storage for WORMLock volumes
• Offers an alternative to expensive optical storage and specialized disk arrays