Bell Microproducts and FalconStor partner to deliver intelligent backup and rapid recovery appliances The appliances, built by Bell Microproducts and powered by FalconStor technology, are cost-effective, scalable, and easy to deploy and manage. The family of turnkey appliances will be available in two flavours: one based on FalconStor's VirtualTape Library (VTL) software, and the other based on FalconStor's iSCSI Storage Server software. "SMBs face the same issues and have the same needs as large enterprises in terms of backup and disaster recovery," said Gary Gammon, senior vice president of Enterprise Sales & Marketing for Bell Microproducts. "Working with FalconStor on tailoring these appliances for SMBs is a natural growth of our long standing relationship. We believe in their technology, since we have been using FalconStor's IPStor software in our internal data centres over the last few years." The turnkey VTL appliance consolidates the management of backup resources while enhancing the reliability of backup operations and accelerating the speed of recovery. FalconStor's VTL software leverages and provisions industry standard high-speed disk as virtual tape drives/libraries to backup servers attached to a SAN via Fibre Channel (FC), iSCSI or NDMP protocol to maximize performance and return on investment. The turnkey iSCSI Storage Server appliance addresses the needs of SMB/departmental customers by enabling Windows Servers to offer SAN-based snapshot, delta replication and zero-impact backup and restore services to application hosts attached to an IP network. To optimise system availability and business productivity, the iSCSI Storage Server also offers mirroring and cluster services, which enable continuous operation during a planned or unplanned outage. www.bellmicro.com
•Date: 26th August 2005 • Region: US • Type:
Article •Topic: IT continuity |
