Arkeia, FalconStor Team on Backup, Recovery

SAN DIEGO and MELVILLE, N.Y. -- Arkeia Software, a worldwide provider of backup and disaster recovery software, and FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC), the provider of TOTALLY Open data protection solutions, today announced a broad sales, marketing and technology partnership to deliver fast and flexible backup and restores of deduplicated data sets across deployment modes.

The foundation of the partnership is the completion of rigorous testing and validation between FalconStor® Virtual Tape Library (VTL) Virtual Appliance and Arkeia Network Backup v8 backup software, ensuring seamless operation between the enterprise-class deduplication and backup solutions as virtual appliances.

"Leveraging FalconStor VTL Virtual Appliance's ability for fast backup, data deduplication, and enterprise-wide replication with the robustness of Arkeia Network Backup gives users a powerful backup and restore solution," said Bernie Wu, FalconStor vice president of business development. "Users can deploy both solutions as virtual appliances in their existing virtual environment, giving them the ability to protect their entire IT infrastructure, including both virtualized and physical servers.”

Arkeia Corp.