FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:FALC), the market leader in disk-based data protection solutions, today announced that GrupoSantillana España, 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 España'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®, are implemented with the storage solutions. Snapshot Agents for Microsoft Exchange enable GrupoSantillana España 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®software rather than to tape, enabling GrupoSantillana España to opt to perform tape backup at a centralized data center, separately from production machines, without any workflow interruption.
Javier Zorita, IT Manager, GrupoSantillana España, 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 España 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.
