Profile: FalconStor Software Inc (FALC.O)

FalconStor Software, Inc. (FalconStor), incorporated in 1994, is a provider of disk-based data protection solutions. The Company delivers data protection solutions that facilitate the availability of business-critical data. The Company’s TOTALLY Open data protection solutions, built upon the IPStor virtualization platform, include the virtual tape library (VTL) with data deduplication for backup optimization, continuous data protector (CDP), network storage server (NSS) for storage virtualization and provisioning, and the File interface deduplication system (FDS) for capacity optimized storage solutions. The Company’s solutions are enabled with wide area network (WAN)-optimized replication options for disaster recovery and remote office protection. The small and medium-size businesses, customers across a range of industries worldwide have implemented FalconStor solutions in their production information technology (IT) environments in order to meet their recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO), as well as to manage their storage infrastructures with minimal total cost of ownership (TCO) and optimal return on investment (ROI). During the year ended December 31, 2008, FalconStor had two customers EMC Corporation and Sun Microsystems, which accounted for 20% and 13%, respectively, of its total revenues. On July 1, 2008, the Company acquired certain assets of World Venture Limited (World Venture), a network storage software business based in Hong Kong.

The FalconStor storage virtualization and data protection solutions are designed to IT administrators and end users to recover data to any point in time in the event of hardware failure, data corruption, deletion, or site-level disaster, allowing rollback or failover to a known-good, immediately useable state to ensure that businesses maintain reliable access to their vital applications and to facilitate accurate data restoration while concurrently minimizing downtime. FalconStor solutions are engineered to integrate and work with database, email, and file systems, and with business applications. The application level integration allows for redundant sets of active data that are generated with transactional and point-in-time integrity. FalconStor offers a range of data protection and storage virtualization solutions include Tape Backup Optimization – FalconStor VTL; Local and Remote Data Recovery – FalconStor CDP; Storage Virtualization, Provisioning, and Management – FalconStor NSS, and Data Deduplication for Capacity Optimized Storage – FalconStor FDS. FalconStor provides data protection services from operating systems and application software, to files, databases, and messaging data, across the organization. Its solutions offer high availability (HA) through RAID, synchronous and asynchronous mirroring, HA failover, and clustering technologies.

FalconStor Snapshot Agents automates during data replication, backup, and other snapshot-based operations to ensure transactional integrity and point-in-time consistency of Windows, Unix, Linux, and VMware systems, databases applications and messaging stores for recovery. Snapshot Agents are available for IBM, DB2, UDB, Informix, Microsoft, SQL Server, Oracle, Prevasive.SQL, Sybase, IBM Lotus Notes/Domino, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft VSS, Novell Groupwise and VMWare. FalconStor recovery agents offer recovery solutions for database and messaging systems. For instance, FalconStor Message Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and Message Recovery for Lotus Notes/Domino expedite mailbox/message recovery by enabling IT administrators to recover individual mailboxes from point-in-time snapshot images of their messaging server.

Network Storage Server (NSS)

FalconStor's network storage server (NSS) ntegrates storage virtualization and provisioning across multiple disk arrays and connection protocols for storage area network (SAN) solution. From a small iSCSI virtual server lab to an enterprise-class Fibre Channel SAN running Tier-1 database applications. By virtualizing storage on any disk arrays, FalconStor NSS provides the ability to pool and tier disk assets. FalconStor NSS incorporates a set of application-aware data protection services, including synchronous mirroring, volume snapshots and site-to-site WAN-optimized data replication, for disaster recovery. Virtual server environments are served by virtualized storage. In addition, FalconStor NSS enables and automates serverless backup processes. The NSS Virtual Appliance enables server virtualization by converting internal or external server storage resources into shared storage resources to enable availability options across virtual servers.

Virtual Tape Library (VTL)

FalconStor virtual tape library is the virtual tape solution. It enhances backup operations without changing any backup processes or policies. FalconStor VTL allows users to solve the issue in backup, including meeting the backup window. FalconStor VTL also supports small and remote office environments through VTL storage appliances and small footprint virtual appliances.

Continuous Data Protector (CDP)

FalconStor continuous data protector technology reinvents the way data backup and recovery are implemented and performed. FalconStor CDP combines local and remote protection into disk-based solution that allows organizations to recover data back to the transaction. Combining application-aware snapshots and continuous journaling functions, CDP enables customers to recover data. The RPO shrinks to mere seconds. In addition, FalconStor CDP software delivers business applications back online. In addition, FalconStor CDP enables and automates serverless backup processes. The CDP Virtual Appliance is a software application packaged for deployment in virtual environments. The FalconStor CDP virtual appliance provides the FalconStor CDP to the remote and branch office to enable data protection and recovery solutions across the enterprise.