FalconStor Qualifies VTL for MS

BARCELONA, Spain -- FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC), a market leader in disk-based data protection solutions, today announced it has successfully tested all FalconStor VirtualTape Library (VTL) Storage Solutions with Microsoft® System Center Data Protection Manager 2007. FalconStor will present its Virtual Tape Library solutions at the Microsoft TechEd IT Forum at Booth # D15 in Barcelona, Spain, November 12-16, 2007.

IT storage planners and architects can now seamlessly combine Data Protection Manager 2007 with new and existing heterogeneous environments by integrating the FalconStor VTL features with multiple backup applications that share tape library resources. Achieving accelerated backup/restore tape operation process speeds of up to 1500MB per second in enterprise class environments, FalconStor VTL provides a single repository for all virtual tapes between multiple Data Protection Manager 2007 servers within any centralized environment or a central environment with remote/branch offices.

FalconStor VTL optimizes key Data Protection Manager 2007 tape archive functions. FalconStor VTL:

All FalconStor VTL data protection solutions are compatible with today’s leading tape drive technologies, tape libraries, and backup application software, including EMC/Legato, HP, IBM/Tivoli, Microsoft, Sun StorageTek, Symantec/Veritas, Quantum, and others.“Building on Microsoft’s Universal Distributed Storage strategy, Microsoft has announced System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 as part of its storage management portfolio. FalconStor VTL Solutions support Data Protection Manager 2007 and enable seamless and simple management of virtual tape assets in heterogeneous customer environments,” said Eric Berg, director of product management for System Center at Microsoft Corp. “Tape virtualization is a natural extension to Data Protection Manager 2007 as customers continue to integrate their existing investments of tape drives and tape libraries with virtual tape management and physical tape archiving.”

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