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Dell
Software & Peripherals Adds FalconStor’s IPStor To Its “A To
Z” Software Solutions Portfolio
MELVILLE, N.Y., June 17, 2002—FalconStor
Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: FALC), a leading provider of network storage
infrastructure software, today announced that the Software &
Peripherals unit of Dell Computer Corp. (Nasdaq: DELL) has expanded
its “A to Z” software solutions portfolio to include the
availability of FalconStor’s IPStor. Dell is now authorized in the
U.S. to offer the IPStor software suite through its sales force and
highly successful e-commerce site.
Enterprise customers can benefit from FalconStor’s award-winning
IPStor-based solutions, which optimize enterprise application
environments through a centralized and simplified storage management
model featuring consolidation of heterogeneous storage, high
availability of data, high-speed consolidation of tape backup and
near-line disk-based backup, and policy-based disaster recovery
functionality, all under one management interface. Dell Software
& Peripherals can now resell IPStor to its targeted audience in
small, medium and large businesses, and to those in the healthcare
and education markets, as well as to federal, state and local
government agencies.
"Dell's strong presence in the server market will provide new
opportunities for FalconStor’s customers," said Wayne Lam,
FalconStor vice president marketing. "That Dell, a global
market share leader in enterprise-class computing solutions, is now
going to carry FalconStor’s flagship product, highlights the
widespread demand for centralized virtualized storage solutions.
More importantly, it makes the purchase and management of SAN even
easier for these organizations."
Both Dell and FalconStor are committed to high-end storage products
based on Fibre Channel, which supports high-speed data transfer
rates and more features for data availability. The companies will
leverage Dell's business model and industry expertise to bring
FalconStor’s leading software infrastructure technology to the
growing market for SAN and NAS.
IPStor, a storage networking software infrastructure, enables
corporate IT to contain storage management costs and increase
storage efficiency by aggregating and provisioning storage resources
and services over the network with high performance, security,
scalability and availability. The IPStor server runs on
off-the-shelf hardware under Linux or Solaris. It supports industry
standard protocols such as SCSI, IP, iSCSI, Fibre Channel and SNMP
to facilitate rapid deployment and seamless integration with the
existing storage equipment and third party management software
throughout the enterprise. As the result of its hardware-agnostic
architecture, vendor-independent storage services and industrial
performance, IPStor has been embraced by major system, storage and
appliance vendors and system integrators throughout the world.
About Dell
Dell Computer Corporation (Nasdaq: DELL), the world's most preferred
computer systems company, is a premier provider of products and
services required for customers worldwide to build their
information-technology and Internet infrastructures. The company's
revenue for the past four quarters totaled $31.2 billion. Dell,
through its direct business model, designs, manufactures and
customizes products and services to customer requirements, and
offers an extensive selection of software and peripherals.
Information on Dell and its products can be obtained at www.dell.com.
About FalconStor
FalconStor Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: FALC), offers network storage
infrastructure software that dramatically reduces storage operating
costs by aggregating and provisioning storage capacity and
management services over Fibre Channel and IP-based storage
networks. With unprecedented reliability, performance,
manageability, and availability, FalconStor’s flagship product,
IPStor™, enables leading IT organizations and Service Providers to
deploy a highly available network storage infrastructure to ensure
business continuity.
Founded in 2000, FalconStor is headquartered in Melville, NY.
International offices include Paris, Tokyo and Taichung, Taiwan.
FalconStor is a voting member of the Storage Networking Industry
Association (SNIA) and Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA).
For more information, visit www.falconstor.com
or call 1-631-777-5188.
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