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CDP Competitive analysis of FalconStor CONFIDENTIAL DO NOT REDISTRIBUTE
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FalconStor At-A-Glance Founded in Feb. 2000 by Veterans of Cheyenne Software which was acquired by CA for $1.2B in 1996 Headquartered in Melville, New York ~300 (US/Asia/Europe) employees Global Sales and Support Infrastructure (15 in-country offices) Providing Network Storage Software for Availability and Recovery of Business Data Targeting Enterprise and SMB market Over 2,000 Active Customers Technology OEMed by Major Storage Vendors and Solution and Service oriented VARs or SIs
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FalconStor Business Model CDP Software only offering – enable VAR’s to formulate their own integrated storage appliances solution using “CDP Virtual Appliance” software. Turnkey Appliance offering Network Storage Server (NSS) Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Virtual Tape Library (VTL) Offsite DR Services PriveVault SM
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FalconStor Technology FalconStor CDP Appliance / Virtual Applaince Provides continuous disk-based backup of file servers, databases, email systems, etc. FalconStor NSS Appliance Creates a SAN/NAS infrastructure for deployment of networked storage with data protection capabilities Virtual Tape Library Software sees the disk as a multiple tape drives with multiple tape media Gateway Appliance Can be CDP, NSS or VTL Connect to and used existing external storage infrastructure via IP/FC-SAN
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FalconStor Technology - CDP Appliance Performs Continuous or Periodic Protection Can perform recovery from last saved or snapshot TimeMark (snapshots) CDP-S4 – 64 Snaps (3 days @ 1hr intervals) CDP-S6 – 255 Snaps (10 days @ 1hr intervals) Recovery User or Administrative recovery Bare Metal Recovery via TimeMark snapshot image Boot from SAN system state recovery Offsite Replication for disaster recovery
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FalconStor Technology – SW Options FileSafe™ Agent Protects servers, desktop and laptop by replicating files and folders DiskSafe™ Agent Protects servers, desktop and laptop by replicating their entire disk(s) to IPStor-managed storage for automated data protection, off-site data storage, backup, and disaster recovery. Application-Aware Snapshot Agents on-demand creation of full, point-in-time snapshot of databases Mirroring and Replication option Synchronous or Asynchronous Full/delta copy of data from primary to secondary appliance
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FalconStor Technology – SW Options MicroScan ™ Data-duplication feature to reduces amount of data transfer during replication Compression & Encryption included Storage Thin Provisioning Can dynamically allocate physical storage space on an as-needed basis to a particular LUN LUN size can be up to 16TB DynaPath® Agent Performs failover and fail-back services for the application server maintaining availability by re-routing I/O path between storage and the application server fails. IP Trunking Option Allows traffic across multiple NICs Enable auto re-routed to other NICs when fault is detected
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FalconStor CDP Appliance
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FalconStor NSS Appliance
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FalconStor CDP-S6 vs CDP 6080 MSRP Comparison
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FalconStor CDP-S4 vs CDP 5040 MSRP Comparison
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FalconStor Disadvantages Comprehensive offering but “Not an all-in-one solution” - can be difficult to configure Deployment can be complex – may require residence IT expert with require vendor training Professional Installation may be necessary User training can be very costly Optional client agent is require for every specific task Requires “DiskSafe” and/or “FileSafe” agent software on every application servers and PCs that are being protected Requires application-aware Snap Shot to interface with TimeMark for each application that are being backup Mirroring and/or Replication for Site-to-Site or Offsite Disaster Recovery Combined add-on options for CDP or NSS for a typical SMB environment could become extremely expensive
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