FalconStor and Idera Join Forces on Flexible Backup, Restore and Data Deduplication of Microsoft SharePoint

Companies Enter into a Sales and Marketing Partnership
MELVILLE, N.Y. & HOUSTON--(Business Wire)--
FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC), the provider of TOTALLY Open data
protection solutions, and Idera Software, a leading provider of management and
administration solutions for Microsoft Windows Servers, today announced a broad
sales and marketing partnership to deliver fast and flexible backup and restores
of deduplicated Microsoft SharePoint sites and site collections.

As a collaboration platform, SharePoint maintains scores of vital information
and integrates in many essential business processes. Idera and FalconStor have
partnered together to provide an effective backup and recovery solution with
optimized data deduplication for SharePoint applications through Idera
SharePoint backup and FalconStor® File-interface Deduplication System (FDS).

"FalconStor FDS provides easy-to-use and robust data deduplication with
enterprise-class replication," said Bernie Wu, FalconStor vice president of
business development. "Used jointly with Idera SharePoint backup, FalconStor FDS
extends data deduplication benefits to SharePoint users, giving them a potent
backup and restore as well as a cost-effective disaster recovery solution for
SharePoint deployments."

"Partnering with FalconStor provides our joint customers with a powerful
end-to-end solution for SharePoint backup and disaster recovery," said Rick
Pleczko, president and CEO of Idera. "The combination ensures universal
protection and easy recovery, from a single document to an entire farm, while
also delivering dramatic savings in storage costs."

Idera SharePoint backup enables administrators to ensure the safety and
integrity of their SharePoint content by automating the backup and recovery
process. It provides automated scheduled backups, monitoring of backup and
recovery operations from a central console and reduces administrator workload by
enabling site administrators and users to recover their own documents.

FalconStor FDS provides a simple solution for data duplication and proliferation
challenges resulting from repeated backup operations, and brings great savings
on storage costs by employing powerful data deduplication technology to reduce
backup sizes by up to 95 percent or more.

"The partnership between FalconStor and Idera brings together a simple solution
for SharePoint data duplication and backup capability for SharePoint users,"
said Bob Fox, SharePoint MVP, author, and principal consultant at B&R Business
Solutions, LLC. "The combined offering has future planning not only to increase
storage capability for the growing amount of data being stored in SharePoint,
but also to help users backup and restore SharePoint data much faster."

By leveraging FalconStor FDS advanced data replication technology, the joint
offering allows for an easy implementation of DR solutions for SharePoint sites.
Only unique data is transmitted across the wire, realizing over 95 percent
savings on replication bandwidth requirements and significantly reducing
SharePoint DR costs.

About Idera

Idera delivers a new generation of tools for managing, administering, and
securing Microsoft Windows Servers. Idera's products help companies ensure
server performance and availability and reduce administrative overhead and
expense. Idera provides solutions for SQL Server, SharePoint and PowerShell.
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Idera's products are sold and supported
directly and via authorized resellers and distributors around the globe. To
learn more, please contact Idera at +1-713.523.4433 or visit www.idera.com.

About FalconStor Software, Inc.

FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC) is the market leader in disk-based data
protection. FalconStor delivers proven, comprehensive data protection solutions
that facilitate the continuous availability of business-critical data with
speed, integrity, and simplicity. The Company's TOTALLY Open technology
solutions, built upon the award-winning IPStor platform, include the industry
leading Virtual Tape Library (VTL) with deduplication, Continuous Data Protector
(CDP), File-interface Deduplication System (FDS), and Network Storage Server
(NSS), each enabled with WAN-optimized replication for disaster recovery and
remote office protection. FalconStor products are available from major OEMs and
solution providers including Acer, COPAN Systems, Data Direct Networks, DSI,
EMC, H3C, IBM, Pillar Data Systems, Spectra Logic and Sun and are deployed by
thousands of customers worldwide, from small businesses to Fortune 1000
enterprises.

FalconStor is headquartered in Melville, N.Y., with offices throughout Europe
and the Asia Pacific region. FalconStor is an active member of the Storage
Networking Industry Association (SNIA). For more information, visit
www.falconstor.com or call 1-866-NOW-FALC (1-866-669-3252).

FalconStor and FalconStor Software are registered trademarks, and TOTALLY Open
is a trademark of FalconStor Software, Inc. in the US and other countries. All
other company and product names contained herein may be trademarks of their
respective holders.

FalconStor Software, Inc.
Herman Chin, 631-773-5863
herman.chin@falconstor.com
or
Idera
Carrie Ward, 832-407-5347
carrie.ward@idera.com

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