FalconStor stated that its FDS helps users minimize online storage capacity requirements for backup and archiving applications. As a capacity-optimized storage repository, its capacity requirements for disk-to-disk (D2D) backup applications can be reduced by as much as 20 times or more by eliminating redundancies resulting from backup operations.

"This award confirms our commitment to provide our channel partners with solutions that not only protect, but also improve the management of growing data repositories and server infrastructures," said Wendy Petty, FalconStor vice president of North American Sales. "FalconStor FDS is designed to ease into any backup environment without disruption and to dramatically reduce storage consumption, giving immediate value to any IT environment. It gives our partners maximum potential profit margin through less overhead, easier deployment and the reduction of overall backup costs. It is gratifying to be recognized for the tremendous amount of effort and investment that FalconStor has put into creating a deduplication solution that is truly a win-win for the channel."

"Innovation has been a critical, driving force behind growth and expansion of the IT industry since its inception and that innovation continues to this day. As a result of the steady, hard and often unheralded work in the R&D labs throughout the industry, technology, cultural and business leadership happens every day," said Robert C. DeMarzo, senior vice president and editorial director, Everything Channel. "Congratulations to this year's innovators. We applaud you on your success."

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"This award confirms our commitment to provide our channel partners with solutions that not only protect, but also improve the management of growing data repositories and server infrastructures," said Wendy Petty, FalconStor vice president of North American Sales. "FalconStor FDS is designed to ease into any backup environment without disruption and to dramatically reduce storage consumption, giving immediate value to any IT environment. It gives our partners maximum potential profit margin through less overhead, easier deployment and the reduction of overall backup costs. It is gratifying to be recognized for the tremendous amount of effort and investment that FalconStor has put into creating a deduplication solution that is truly a win-win for the channel."

"Innovation has been a critical, driving force behind growth and expansion of the IT industry since its inception and that innovation continues to this day. As a result of the steady, hard and often unheralded work in the R&D labs throughout the industry, technology, cultural and business leadership happens every day," said Robert C. DeMarzo, senior vice president and editorial director, Everything Channel. "Congratulations to this year's innovators. We applaud you on your success."

The Tech Innovators were nominated by their individual companies and final selections were made by the editors of CRN. In order to participate, products were required to have been introduced (as a new product or significant upgrade) after August 1, 2008, and all products were required to be shipping in volume by July 30, 2009. Products were also required to be sold via commercial or retail channels.

Winners will be announced in the December 14 issue of CRN. To read about the CRN Tech Innovators, go to www.channelweb.com.

For more information on how data deduplication is helping organizations, visit http://www.dedupeinfocenter.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(TM) technology solutions, built upon the award-winning IPStor(R) 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 3Com, Acer, COPAN Systems, Data Direct Networks, Dynamic Solutions International, EMC, 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).

About Everything Channel (www.everythingchannel.com, www.channelweb.com)

Everything Channel is the one-stop shop for managing and accelerating technology sales. From branding and recruiting to marketing and sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the unmatched breadth and depth of global brands and market intelligence combined with unparalleled audience loyalty and credibility serving all technology sales channels through an extensive database. Everything Channel provides innovative field sales and marketing solutions to arm the sellers of technology with the resources they need to achieve measurable and significant results.

About United Business Media Limited (www.unitedbusinessmedia.com)

United Business Media Limited (UBM) is a global media and marketing services company that informs markets and brings the world's buyers and sellers together at events, online, in print, and with the information they need to do business successfully. UBM serves professional and commercial communities, from IT professionals to doctors, from journalists to jewelry dealers, from farmers to pharmacists around the world. UBM employs more than 6,500 people in more than 30 countries. UBM's businesses operating in the U.S. include CMPMedica, Commonwealth Business Media, Everything Channel, PR Newswire, RISI, TechInsights, TechWeb and Think Services. UBM is listed on the London Stock Exchange (UBM.L) and has a market capitalization of $1.6 billion.

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

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FalconStor CDP customers have increased choice and flexibility because FalconStor provides multiple deployment models for the solution, helping to drive down costs based on individual requirements. FalconStor CDP is available as a physical or a virtual appliance and is an ideal solution to protect hybrid environments at the primary site while enabling a fully virtualized DR site. Because it is an open solution, FalconStor CDP works with any application, any server platform, over any networking protocol and on any vendor's storage.

"Our customers are realizing significant benefits from the flexibility and granularity of FalconStor's disk-based backup and DR offering. FalconStor CDP is the only data protection solution that combines advanced technologies -- including disk virtualization, snapshot with deduplication, WAN optimization and recovery process management -- in one unified product that replaces the old backup methods with a scalable, reliable and verifiable technology that will carry into the next decade," said Alex Jiang, vice president of global marketing for FalconStor Software. "FalconStor is committed to helping our customers eliminate the backup window, enjoy continuous access to their data and gain tremendous operational and cost efficiencies."

FalconStor CDP benefits

-- Replaces cumbersome restores from tape with instant recovery from disk while using tape for long-term data retention and archiving.

-- Recovers business operations quickly and reliably, so files, databases, mail stores and entire systems are brought back online in minutes, minimizing business impact. Individual servers can be recovered in as little as five minutes, while entire DR sites can be brought online in as little as 30 minutes in the event of a full data center failure.

-- Eliminates the backup window by removing any impact of backup processes on production systems and applications.

-- Typically cuts total DR costs in half by replicating data across heterogenous storage systems, protocols and virtual/physical boundaries and reducing bandwidth requirements over the WAN by 70 to 90 percent.

-- Verifies and ensures business continuity with easy verification and DR testing that gives customers the confidence that systems will work as expected when needed.

-- Maximizes operational efficiency. FalconStor is the only vendor that can provide a standard backup and recovery process throughout the enterprise, no matter what the applications, storage systems or networking protocols.

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The Canadian Township of Scugog was able to shorten the recovery time for its mission-critical Oracle database that runs its financial application from hours to just minutes. "FalconStor CDP enabled the Township of Scugog to recover from a mission-critical application failure of its Oracle database and be back in operation in 20 minutes -- proof that its data is fully protected and continuously available under any circumstances," said Shawn Mears of GDL Consulting and Infrastructure Lead for the Township of Scugog. "The FalconStor solution did everything that we hoped it would do, and it was a pretty painless procedure; in comparison, restoring from incremental and tape backups could take hours, or even days."

Strand Associates, an engineering firm based in Madison, Wisc., with 11 offices in the United States, was able to consolidate its backup and DR processes into one continuous standard procedure across all of its remote sites. Strand replaced daily tape backups with disk-based snapshots and weekly backups to tape, saving 85 percent in time and operating costs. "We had to design a data protection infrastructure that would allow users to recover data (such as CAD files) as quickly as possible to avoid recreating work," said Justin Bell, network administrator at Strand Associates. "We needed to execute approximately 800 restore jobs in the last year, which would have been extremely time consuming and expensive with tape; however, with FalconStor CDP it takes just minutes to perform one restore."

Earth Rangers, a Canadian non-profit organization that inspires children to have a positive impact on the environment, was able to eliminate backup to tape entirely, saving the planet from a few more unnecessary carbon emissions. "FalconStor CDP is one of the elements that allows the Earth Rangers Center facility to have a light impact on the environment, which is part of our mission to educate about environmentally sustainable practices," said Robert Di Stefano, IT systems manager for Earth Rangers. "With FalconStor CDP, we deployed a disk-based backup system that eliminates the need for daily tape backups and allows us to restore quickly lost or corrupted files from disk on a very granular level. There is an indirect positive impact on the environment with this system, since we are no longer burning fossil fuel to truck copies of our data on tape to a remote location for safe keeping."

Vertafore, a large technology and information solutions company for the insurance industry with more than 380 terabytes of data under management, customized its FalconStor CDP deployment to meet the firm's stringent SLA requirements, eliminating inefficient backup windows and restores from tape. "Vertafore has seen increased performance gains as a result of the FalconStor CDP deployment," said Chris Munoz, vice president of hosting services for Vertafore. "Prior to FalconStor, we saw a large amount of overhead on the SQL servers, long backup windows and frequent, unreliable tape restores. Now we can instantly access and restore from any recovery point within a 14-day period via consistent snapshots. These snapshots, along with replication, have enabled us to reduce the need for tape backups down to only once a week (offline) for long-term archiving with zero impact to the Microsoft SQL servers. FalconStor's easy-to-deploy, non-intrusive data protection environment provides a unified platform for backup and DR, incremental snapshots for precise recovery points and remote data validation to help us reach maximum operating efficiency."

Financial services firm Maxim Group saves time and money with FalconStor CDP, which supports the company's DAS environment, by increasing backup efficiency and reducing downtime. "We were using servers with direct attached storage (DAS) for daily disk-to-disk backup; the volume of data was overwhelming and restore times were unacceptable. In addition, we needed to better manage the offsite replication of all corporate data," said John Michaels, chief technology officer at Maxim Group. "FalconStor CDP let us preserve our DAS configuration while providing data security and protection. Increased operational efficiencies and cost savings have strengthened our bottom line as a result of reduced data volumes and minimized bandwidth requirements."

CyberLink, renowned for its flagship product, PowerDVD, and headquartered in Taipei with offices across the globe including North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region, needed to optimize the reliability of mission-critical applications to ensure continuous data availability. "CyberLink's global operations heavily rely on e-mail systems to conduct businesses and to communicate with regional offices, customers and partners worldwide," said Casper Chang, CIO of Cyberlink. "With FalconStor CDP, in case of system failure, the entire physical Microsoft Exchange server can be recovered seamlessly over to a virtual server (physical to virtual recovery) within 10 minutes. This ensures that our daily business operations will not be affected at all."

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(TM) technology solutions, built upon the award-winning IPStor(R) 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 3Com, Acer, COPAN Systems, Data Direct Networks, Dynamic Solutions International, EMC, 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, FalconStor Software and IPStor are registered trademarks and TOTALLY Open is a trademark of FalconStor Software, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. All other company and product names contained herein may be trademarks of their respective holders.

SOURCE: FalconStor Software, Inc.

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