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WorldCare DEPLOYS FalconStor's IPstor

FalconStor Software Inc, a leading provider of network storage infrastructure software, has announced that WorldCare Inc, a leading provider of global e-health services and solutions, has chosen FalconStor's IPStor to ensure optimal performance, efficient capacity utilization, and fast and secure access to critical information.

WorldCare provides international access to high quality U.S. healthcare through the delivery of highly specialized and personalized second opinion e-consultation for the treatment of serious illness. In partnership with premier medical centers in North America, WorldCare utilizes Internet-empowered technologies and FDA approved protocols to transmit medical records and provide referring physicians and their patients with second opinions. WorldCare wanted to consolidate its storage over a NAS environment. Security and auditing capabilities were other considerations that had to be satisfied, and IPStor met all their requirements.

"FalconStor's solution addressed critical areas for WorldCare, including centrally managing all our resources with security, and generating audit trails for all our documents to comply with HIPPA and FDA regulations," stated Joel Kahn, M.D., WorldCare's Chief Technology Officer. "IPStor allows us to take a much more proactive role in the management of our network and use WorldCare's company resources to our optimum advantage."

To meet WorldCare's requirement to have all its stored documents be HIPPA and FDA compliant, FalconStor created a customized feature for IPStor on NAS that changes the permissions of every file stored from READ/WRITE to READ only. IPStor also journals the changes and produces an audit trail that can be used in reporting to show compliance to Federal law.

Neartek, a FalconStor solutions integrator, implemented IPStor at WorldCare. "IPStor's seamless integration with the Hitachi Freedom Storage Thunder 9200 system and BakBone tape backup software proved to be a winning combination that made the difference for WorldCare," said Dave Littman, account executive at Neartek Inc, a Lakeville, MA-based leading provider of storage management software optimizing tape storage for mainframe, midrange and open systems.

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