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FalconStor FURTHERS STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP WITH CNT

FalconStor Software Inc, a leading provider of network storage infrastructure software, has announced that CNT, a global storage networking expert, has joined FalconStor's Professional Services Program and will provide implementation and consulting services to global IPStor customers and prospects.

FalconStor's Professional Services program is designed for qualified consulting firms and systems integrators that are committed to delivering professional services for SAN and NAS solutions over Fibre Channel, IP/iSCSI, SCSI, NFS and CIFS. CNT's global professional services team provides customers with consulting services to design and deploy storage infrastructure solutions that provide superior data availability and reduced operational costs.

"As clients continue to build out their networked storage infrastructure, they look for solutions which deliver performance, flexibility and scalability as their enterprise grows while addressing today's management and availability and cost containment challenges," said Ernie Parsons, vice president and GM of CNT's Storage Solutions Group. "Combining FalconStor's technology leadership with CNT's proficiency in professional and consulting services reflects the commitment of both companies to delivering end-to-end storage solutions for customers."

CNT's comprehensive storage solution set includes market leading storage systems, high availability servers, enterprise backup solutions, storage management software, managed bandwidth and storage networking products. These offerings combined with CNT's consulting and implementation services deliver the entire solution seamlessly to the customer.

"The professional services team of FalconStor and CNT worked seamlessly to design, test and implement our new storage infrastructure, utilizing IPStor to consolidate, aggregate and provision our existing data storage resources," said Kevin King, IT engineer at NRG Energy, a wholly owned and unregulated subsidiary of Xcel Energy. "The implementation team efficiently devised a configuration leveraging our existing storage infrastructure investments with IPStor's high data availability and faster recovery features for our mission-critical Oracle, Exchange and SQL databases."

Contact: FalconStor, Herman Chin, 631-962-1163, herman.chin@falconstor.com.