FalconStor Software, Inc., a trusted data protection software leader modernising disaster recovery and backup operations for the hybrid cloud, has expanded its go-to-market relationship with Hitachi Vantara, combining Hitachi's flash storage arrays with best-in-class replication, data migration, snapshot, and disaster recovery software. Hitachi Vantara will resell FalconStor StorGuard in conjunction with its market-leading flash arrays to provide mission-critical applications and data with excellent flash performance and protection.
“Hitachi Vantara’s mission is to help organisations become data driven and the cloud is a big piece of that. However, many organisations face issues related to data security, legacy infrastructure, or a lack of in-house cloud capabilities. We can help these companies overcome those challenges and navigate where they want to go next,” said Kimberly King, senior vice president, strategic partners and alliances at Hitachi Vantara. “Together, with FalconStor, we can bring infrastructure modernisation and cloud-enabled data protection that will help customers transform their business and become more data driven.”
“Our customers are modernising their core IT infrastructures to capitalise on the latest in speed and security,” said Thomas Kleinkuhnen, director, enterprise infrastructure, Tech Data GmbH Co & OHG. “This new offering from Hitachi and FalconStor provides both and represents a best-in-class solution that will find a great reception among the enterprise customers that rely on Tech Data.”
“We are pleased to see two market leaders coming together to help our customers improve their current data protection strategies by taking advantage of the latest flash technologies with the most secure data protection onsite, in a metro region and in the cloud, which fits what our team sees in the enterprise today,” stated Michele Pozza, general manager at MALEVA, an Italian reseller specialising in data protection solutions.
“Increasingly, our enterprise customers are asking for hybrid cloud data protection with advanced security,” said Till Bockenheimer, chief executive officer and holder at T&A SYSTEME GmbH. “We are pleased to see that FalconStor and Hitachi Vantara understand this need and are committed to delivering a tested, validated solution to solve our customers’ challenges.”
The integrated, validated solution combines Hitachi's VSP storage systems with FalconStor's StorGuard continuous data protection and replication software, making it possible for companies and managed services providers to tailor a deployment to suit specific protection objectives, such as:
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Cloud Data Protection: replicating data to the cloud to serve as a secondary protection tier for mission-critical data.
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Continuous Data Protection: continuous journaling of all writes to the VSP storage system to provide recovery points with per-second granularity for critical apps.
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Continuous Availability Within a Metro Region: synchronous replication between sites within a metro region provides protection against a sitewide disaster.
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No-Compromise Snapshot Performance: StorGuard runs on industry-standard servers and offloads the VSP’s CPU to deliver best-in-class I/O and scalability for the highest throughput.
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Non-Disruptive Data Migration: enabling easy migration to Hitachi arrays to facilitate new deployments.
Hitachi Vantara makes the solution available to end customers and designated channel partners, and Hitachi and FalconStor provide international support.
“FalconStor’s core data protection software portfolio enables the complete range of protection destinations, from cloud to disk to tape, and the broadest range of recovery point objectives, with millisecond granularity,” said Todd Brooks, CEO of FalconStor Software. “We pleased to expand our solution development work with Hitachi to take advantage of all of our protection capabilities on-premises and in the cloud.”
