| LOUISVILLE,
Colo., and MELVILLE, N.Y., July 31, 2002—FalconStor
Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: FALC), a leading provider of network
storage infrastructure software, and StorageTek® (NYSE:STK),
the storage services and solutions expert, today announced the
joint qualification of each other’s product lines.
Previously, FalconStor had jointly
tested and qualified StorageTek’s 9176 Disk Subsystem with
IPStor™, FalconStor’s storage networking software, and has
now completed qualification testing for select StorageTek disk
subsystems. This includes StorageTek’s D178 2Gb Fibre
Channel disk storage system, a high performance,
enterprise-level open systems disk solution, and the
entry-level D173, which are manufactured by LSI Logic Storage
Systems and sold by StorageTek under terms of an alliance
agreement announced in January 2002. The combination of these
disk systems with IPStor provides customers with a powerful
virtualized disk solution.
“StorageTek solutions address the
need for highly-reliable data availability. Our ability to
provide customers with an easy-to-use virtualization and
storage consolidation solution through network-attached disk
storage is enhanced through this effort with FalconStor,”
said John LoPorto, StorageTek vice president Solutions. “Our
aim is to help customers do more with less, driving their
costs down while maximizing return on investment, and this
gives them a best of class solution with solid performance.”
“FalconStor will continue to drive
its commitment to providing fully interoperable, highly
scalable solutions through successful product qualifications
with mission-critical solutions such as StorageTek’s disk
family,” said Wayne Lam, FalconStor vice president of
marketing. “StorageTek is uniquely positioned to provide a
combined enterprise-class disk and tape storage solution. Our
cooperative approach to the market will further enhance our
relationship.”
StorageTek’s D178 is a very
high-performance, cost-effective enterprise-level open-system
disk solution, giving customers the ability to grow storage at
their own pace without over-buying to support future online
storage needs. Jointly tested for interoperability in storage
area network (SAN) environments, the D178 works with most
major SAN hardware and software vendors' products.
StorageTek’s D173 offers both 10 and
14 drive enclosures with a maximum capacity of 5.4 TB, and
provides users the flexibility to seamlessly scale from
entry-level to enterprise-level performance. This compact,
scalable solution gives small and medium businesses, remote
users and departmental level customers extensive features and
functionality for dedicated storage environments, and for SANs.
IPStor, FalconStor’s storage
networking software, 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.
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