FalconStor and Global Data Vault, an Online Backup Provider, Provide Data Protection and Recovery for TechWeb’s Interop

May 18, 2009

FalconStor and Global Data Vault Provide Data Protection and Recovery for TechWeb’s Interop IT Physical and Virtual Server Environments

FalconStor to Present at Interop Las Vegas 2009 – Virtualization: Enabling Disaster Recovery for Any Sized Business

MELVILLE, N.Y. & DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:FALC - News), the provider of TOTALLY Open™ data protection solutions, and Global Data Vault, a leading provider of online backup and disaster recovery (DR) failover solutions, today announced that they are the chosen vendors to provide data protection and DR for TechWeb’s Interop Conference infrastructure. In addition, Fadi Albatal, senior director of product marketing for FalconStor, will discuss how companies of all sizes are leveraging virtualization to create cost-effective DR implementations at Interop Las Vegas 2009, at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas.

The example for this session is the DR solution deployed by Global Data Vault for InteropNet, the Interop conference IT environment used by exhibitors, conference rooms and attendees. Global Data Vault is leveraging FalconStor^®Continuous Data Protector (CDP) Virtual Appliances for the data protection of 28 blade servers supporting 20 active virtual servers at the conference. This scenario can be extrapolated to represent data protection issues common to many real-world data centers and is a showcase for how businesses can utilize virtualization to implement successful DR plans.

FalconStor Software at Interop Las Vegas 2009:

• Virtualization: Enabling Disaster Recovery for Any Sized Business - Panel discussion featuring Fadi Albatal and others, moderated by Focus Consulting, discussing the challenges and rewards of data protection using virtualized servers and storage, including the challenges of interoperability, data integrity, bandwidth consumption and keeping costs down, in Lagoon F,Thursday, May 21 at 11:30 a.m. PT.
• Demonstration of FalconStor and Global Data Vault DR software and services at the InteropNet NOC on Tuesday, May 19 and Wednesday, May 20 at 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m., and Thursday, May 21 at 11:00 a.m.
• DR discussions at Global Data Vault booth (#853), during exhibition hours, Tuesday, May 19 through Thursday, May 21.

About Interop
Interop^® drives the adoption of technology, providing knowledge and insight to help IT and corporate decision-makers achieve business success. Part of TechWeb’s family of global brands, Interop is the leading business technology event series. Through in-depth educational programs, workshops, real-world demonstrations and live technology implementations in its unique Interop Net program, Interop provides the forum for the most powerful innovations and solutions the industry has to offer. For more information about these events, visit www.interop.com.

About Global Data Vault
Global Data Vault (GDV) was founded in 2002 to provide superior technology for backup and disaster recovery services. GDV’s head office is in Dallas, Texas and serves customers from data center facilities in the United Sates and the United Kingdom. GDV’s Advanced Data Protection solution provides both failover and remote backup in a single managed service. When a failure or other incident prevents access to your primary IT infrastructure, a complete infrastructure is built and is operational within sixty minutes using virtual machine technology. The environment is hosted in GDV’s data centers on an enterprise class virtualized server farm. Data is encrypted and stored off site at GDV’s data centers. GDV’s Online Backup supports most versions of Windows Server, Netware, Linux and Mac. Exchange, SQL and SBS are supported as well as message level Exchange backup and restore.

About FalconStor Software, Inc.
FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:FALC - News) is the market leader in disk-based data protection. FalconStor delivers proven, comprehensive data protection solutions that facilitate the continuous availability of business-critical data with speed, integrity, and simplicity. The Company’s TOTALLY Open^TM technology solutions, built upon the award-winning IPStor® platform, include the industry leading Virtual Tape Library (VTL) with deduplication, Continuous Data Protector (CDP), File-interface Deduplication System (FDS), and Network Storage Server (NSS), each enabled with WAN-optimized replication for disaster recovery and remote office protection. FalconStor products are available from major OEMs and solution providers including Acer, COPAN Systems, Data Direct Networks, DSI, EMC, H3C, IBM, Pillar Data Systems, Spectra Logic and Sun and are deployed by thousands of customers worldwide, from small businesses to Fortune 1000 enterprises.

FalconStor is headquartered in Melville, N.Y., with offices throughout Europe and the Asia Pacific region. FalconStor is an active member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). For more information, visit www.falconstor.com or call 1-866-NOW-FALC (1-866-669-3252).

FalconStor, FalconStor Software and IPStor are registered trademarks and TOTALLY Open is a trademark of FalconStor Software, Inc. in the US and other countries. All other company and product names contained herein may be trademarks of their respective holders.

Contact:

For More Information:
FalconStor Software, Inc.
Herman Chin, 631-773-5863
herman.chin@falconstor.com
or
Metis Communications
Melissa Cohen, 617-236-0500
melissa@metiscomm.com