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FalconStor Provides Totally Open SAN for der Spiegel, Germany’s Largest Magazine
FalconStor Software Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC), the market leader in disk-based data protection solutions today announced that German media company Spiegel, owner of Der Spiegel, Germany’s leading magazine, has implemented the FalconStor® Network Storage Server (NSS) solution powered by the FalconStor IPStor® Enterprise Edition software to deliver a Storage Area Network infrastructure to provide increased flexibility, central administration and application-aware backup for its Lotus Notes server cluster and other file servers. The solution was implemented together with Hamburg-based partner, Itiso.

Spiegel required backup and storage capabilities for massive amounts of data in excess of 35 TB.  For Spiegel, one of the NSS solution’s key advantages over potential alternatives was the FalconStor Storage Service Enabler option which allows adoption into an NSS storage pool of existing storage devices, together with their existing data, in order to enable them with advanced storage services.  Residing on an infrastructure comprised of a Storage Area Network using both Fibre Channel and iSCSI, Spiegel’s new, post-deployment environment is both virtualized and storage service-enabled, across two sites.

Robert Kiehne, Systems Manager at Spiegel, said: “As a 24/7 media organisation with a large volume of data, we can afford neither downtime due to any sort of failure, nor downtime in order to migrate vast amounts of data to a new infrastructure. FalconStor’s ability to deliver advanced storage services within these constraints was exactly what we were seeking.”

Guy Berlo, Central Europe Regional Director for FalconStor, said: “Once again, FalconStor has proven that its technology can bring new benefits to any existing storage environment.  It continues to be the most flexible storage platform available, consistently delivering the most up-to-date storage services possible.”

Spiegel’s existing data LUNs have been duly enabled by the FalconStor NSS appliance to make use of FalconStor software’s advanced services, without either bulk copying or virtualization, and with minimal downtime.  One of these services, application-aware Snapshot Agent for Lotus Notes, now protects Spiegel’s messaging data stores with full point-in-time consistency and transactional integrity while still allowing uninterrupted access to the data stores at full speed.

Published Monday, February 04, 2008 10:18 PM by David Marshall
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