iSCSI SAN and NAS Storage

Fareham Borough Council Rules on iSCSI SAN and NAS Storage Solution from FalconStor for Storage Consolidation and Disaster Recovery
Tuesday March 9, 9:05 am ET

FAREHAM, HAMPSHIRE, United Kingdom--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 9, 2004--FalconStor Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: FALC - News), a leading developer of network storage infrastructure software solutions, today announced that the Fareham Borough Council has selected IPStor for storage consolidation and disaster recovery. The move to SAN and NAS storage over iSCSI will supersede the direct attached storage associated with the Council's 40+ servers.

FalconStor teamed with RedStor, one of FalconStor's UK partners, to design a storage solution addressing the Council's needs. Key among the Council's requirements was guaranteed expandability for the next five years, with the capability to cope with a rapidly growing storage requirement in excess of 12 terabytes. RedStor will be implementing and maintaining all hardware and software components of the solution.

"We have major systems that need protecting, 24/7 public services to provide and a business continuity plan that we need to have faith in, and all this in a time when data is growing rapidly," said Peter Harper, ICT Manager of Fareham Borough Council. "Our requirements and specification were tight and demanding, but RedStor was able to show that IPStor was able to meet our long term objectives."

"This is a great project in which Fareham Borough Council will achieve several objectives in one 'hit'," said Jon Ashley, UK marketing manager, RedStor. "The management element is one part, and the disaster recovery infrastructure is another part. They have chosen a solution that will cure a whole load of headaches in one fell swoop."

RedStor proposed a heterogeneous approach to avoid vendor lock-in and enable the Council to get the best from its various suppliers. The solution includes IPStor to deliver:

• a storage network infrastructure providing SAN and NAS access over iSCSI
• a suite of enterprise-class storage services including virtualization, storage consolidation, and data replication
• accelerated backup-enabling technology such as zero-impact backup and serverless backup.

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