FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:FALC), the market leader in
disk-based data protection solutions, today announced that
GrupoSantillana Espana, a major educational publishing business, has
deployed FalconStor Continuous Data Protection (CDP) and FalconStor
VirtualTape Library (VTL) solutions to provide an end to end data
protection solution, affording total protection against virtually any
kind of storage-affecting incident. The integration was undertaken by
FalconStor partner SM Data.
Implementation of these core FalconStor solutions provides
GrupoSantillana Espana's IT systems with the most rapid recovery
possible from any data loss scenario. 'Hot' and 'warm' data -- live
and recent, respectively -- is protected by FalconStor's CDP solution
for rapid recovery, while 'cold', older data is protected by
FalconStor VTL, fulfilling the company's requirement for both disaster
recovery (DR) and backup consolidation and acceleration.
The data protected by FalconStor comprises the company's Microsoft
Exchange server data and its file server data, on a heterogeneous
infrastructure comprising both Microsoft Windows and Sun's Solaris
operating systems. Some 7TB of data is the subject of a full, weekly
backup, with 500GB of daily incremental backup.
Two additional storage services, Snapshot Agents and TimeMark(R),
are implemented with the storage solutions. Snapshot Agents for
Microsoft Exchange enable GrupoSantillana Espana to rapidly restart
its Exchange servers by ensuring that a replica remains in a
consistent state and can be promoted and mounted by the OS and
database/messaging application. The TimeMark option in FalconStor CDP
journals every change to the data. In the event of a disaster, the
replica can be promoted, and delta snapshots can be used to roll back
to a known good point in time.
DiskSafe and FileSafe are also deployed. FileSafe and DiskSafe
protect direct attached storage (DAS) systems by replicating
file-level and block-level data to disk managed by IPStor(R) software
rather than to tape, enabling GrupoSantillana Espana to opt to perform
tape backup at a centralized data center, separately from production
machines, without any workflow interruption.
Javier Zorita, IT Manager, GrupoSantillana Espana, said: "Two
factors forced us to redefine our backup and disaster recovery plans:
the increasing number of business critical systems that would have to
be backed up within minutes of an incident, and the sheer rate of data
growth. With no room for error it made sense to adopt a suite of
solutions that would ensure the most rapid recovery under any
circumstances. Now we have faster recovery and a reduced backup
window, via an easy-to-administer, low-cost, high performance iSCSI
backup environment."
Sergi Torrens, Sales Manager Spain, FalconStor, said:
"GrupoSantillana chose FalconStor for several reasons: the extreme
flexibility and scalability of FalconStor's solutions, the range of
functionality and ability to meet the needs of multiple architectures,
and the fact that FalconStor's technology is used by so many leading
technology brands as the basis of their own solutions."
CDP, VTL and DR solutions are three essential components of any
cradle-to-grave strategy for quickly recovering data at any given
point in its lifetime. FalconStor's solutions provide an adaptive
approach to data protection that accounts for the age and relevance of
data when considering the best way to generate and maintain a backup
data set. Research has shown that tape-based backups alone do not
provide sufficient protection for data that is constantly changing.
Disk-based backups -- specifically CDP, VTL, and remote replication
for disaster recovery purposes -- fill this void.
FalconStor's Disaster Recovery, Virtual Tape Library, and
Continuous Data Protection -- make such a strategy available to any
business and for any storage configuration. Together, these tools span
the disk-to-disk (D2D) and disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) scenarios,
forming a single paradigm for data protection.
Founded in 1960, GrupoSantillana Espana employs 1,000 people,
generating a turnover of 150 million dollars per year from hundreds of
thousands of customers of all sizes.
About FalconStor Software, Inc.
FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:FALC) is the market leader in
disk-based data protection solutions that optimize data center
efficiency and business continuity for all IT infrastructures. The
company's award-winning storage virtualization, Continuous Data
Protection, disaster recovery, and VirtualTape Library solutions
integrate seamlessly to ensure rapid data recovery and simplified
storage management. Its products are available from major OEMs and
solution providers and are deployed worldwide by governments,
educational institutions, and Fortune 1000 enterprises across
industries including aerospace, energy production, financial services,
healthcare, law, manufacturing, and telecommunications.
FalconStor is headquartered in Melville, N.Y., with offices
throughout Europe and the Asia Pacific. For more information, visit
www.FalconStor.com or call 1-866-NOW-FALC (866-669-3252).
FalconStor, IPStor and TimeMark are registered trademarks, and
DiskSafe and FileSafe are trademarks, of FalconStor Software, Inc in
the United States and other countries. All other trademarks are the
properties of their respective owners.
