Nexsan and FalconStor Certify AutoMAID Virtual Tape Solution for the Channel
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Wednesday October 25, 8:00 am ET
Cost Saving VTL Solution That Provides Faster Backup and Recovery Now Available Through Solution Providers
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., Oct. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nexsan Technologies, the leader in innovative and secure storage solutions, and FalconStor (Nasdaq: FALC - News), the leading developer of proven data protection solutions, today announced the availability of a certified enterprise-class virtual tape library solution that combines FalconStor's VTL software and Nexsan's extreme-density storage systems.
The high-capacity virtual tape solution can scale up to 315 terabytes in a single rack, providing energy efficient disk-to-disk backup functionality for even the largest volumes of data. Nexsan's AutoMAID(TM) (Massive Array of Idle Disks) energy-saving technology allows the solution to place its disk drives to an idle state to conserve energy yet provide near-instantaneous access to data.
With FalconStor's VirtualTape software product line, and Nexsan's award-winning storage hardware, customers can leverage cost-effective SATA-based disk arrays to provision virtual tape drives and libraries to backup servers attached to an iSCSI/IP or Fibre Channel (FC) storage area network (SAN), without the need to change existing backup software configurations.
"Using disk-based Nexsan storage as an alternative to tape in the backup and recovery process is an intelligent way to dramatically accelerate backup traffic and improve the success rate of backup operations while lowering administrative costs," said Brendan Kinkade, Vice President of Marketing at Nexsan. "The combination of FalconStor's VTL with high capacity Nexsan storage enables customers can take advantage of the unparalleled efficiency and speed of Nexsan disk without changing the tape management procedures they already understand."
"Leading-edge technologies like FalconStor VirtualTape and Nexsan disk arrays present an extremely attractive solution for large scale enterprise users," said Bernie Wu, vice president of business development, FalconStor. "This is a channel-friendly approach for custom-designed systems to consolidate the management of backup resources and enhance the reliability of backup operations.
Through its intelligent use of disk in the backup process, the joint the solution eliminates much of the burden, complexity and difficulty of using tape for backups and restores. Because the data actually resides on Nexsan SATA-based disk with AutoMAID, users experience dramatic improvements to the backup and recovery operation while significantly improving the total cost of the overall solution and reducing associated operational costs.
"The combination of FalconStor's VTL with Nexsan's AutoMAID technology allows us to give our customers a true 'Best-of-Breed' solution to enhance the reliability, efficiency and speed of their backup and recovery operations," said John Thome, Jr., Vice President of Sales for CHI Corporation, an Ohio-based solution provider. "This certification further validates the solution and assures our customers that they will be able to fully leverage both technologies."
The FalconStor VTL software combined with Nexsan AutoMAID(TM) disk array is available immediately through worldwide solution providers. |
