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SAN SOLUTIONS AND FALCONSTOR PROVIDE CO-LOCATION SOLUTION

FalconStor Software Inc, a leading provider of network storage infrastructure software, has announced that it has teamed with SAN Solutions, a provider of total data storage management solutions headquartered in Barcelona, to deploy FalconStor's IPStor as the network storage infrastructure at Europe's most advanced neutral co-location company, to ensure business continuity and disaster recovery for itself and its hosted customers.

The co-location provider had to fill a dual need of a sound disaster recovery initiative and high data availability not only for itself, but as a service that it could provide for its customers, said Jose A. Guerrero, CEO of SAN Solutions. IPStor s storage services gave them exactly what they were looking for, while increasing their ROI by leveraging their existing storage IT infrastructure, with the bonus of an additional revenue stream from providing these new services.

IT requirements that needed to be met by the chosen storage solution included a mandate for nonstop access to database and messaging data stores, user files, a pressing need to execute a comprehensive solution for high availability and disaster recovery, and the ability to leverage the existing storage equipment already in place. SAN Solutions looked for a solution providing mirroring, replication, remote backup, database and messaging application snapshots, storage capacity on demand, virtualization and the ability to seamlessly run on both TCP/IP and Fibre Channel. SAN Solutions concluded that IPStor met every criteria for the co-location company, and deployed it in their SAN infrastructure across international data centers.

An additional consideration for the co-location provider in choosing IPStor was leveraging its functionality externally as a disaster recovery and storage on demand service offered to businesses that cannot afford or simply don't have an alternate site for disaster recovery planning to mirror or replicate their data.

We are tremendously satisfied with the fruitful team work between FalconStor and SAN Solutions to implement this IPStor solution, said Guillaume Imberti, vice president and general manager of EMEA for FalconStor. The close collaboration has enabled us to deploy a solution which reinforces our customer's ability to provide a highly specified, secure and cost-effective environment for server, Web site and data housing requirements for their clients. The co-location company, with a presence in Europe's key business centers, can now allow its customers to rapidly access markets across Europe, with peace of mind on their data, without losing focus on their core businesses.

About SAN Solutions

Headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, SAN Solutions was created in 1992, and specializes in the design and implantation of storage area networks with high reliability. SAN Solutions implements the solutions that their clients need with the minimum possible upheavals in the surroundings of operations. SAN Solutions is a leader in the Spanish market, as much in clients as in volume of sales. This leadership is based on an ample experience in the development of solutions using the most innovating and modern technologies available. For more information, visit www.sansol.com.

About FalconStor

FalconStor Software Inc, delivers network storage infrastructure solutions for end-to-end business continuity, centralized storage management, and optimized performance. FalconStor empowers enterprises to lower the TCO of their IT infrastructure through a comprehensive set of storage services, with total hardware and protocol freedom.

Founded in 2000, FalconStor is headquartered in Melville, NY. International offices include Paris, Tokyo and Taichung, Taiwan. FalconStor is a voting member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA). For more information, visit www.falconstor.com or call 631-777-5188.