Unsung storage software company FalconStor Software enables automated failover for Microsoft virtual servers and disaster recovery for WANs. FalconStor also offers what it says is near-instantaneous disaster recovery over WANs in both physical server and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual server environments.FalconStor Software, which provides storage software for companies such as
Sun Microsystems and EMC and doesn't get a
lot of recognition for it, said Oct. 13 that its FalconStor Network Storage
Server is the first package to include full block-level support for failover
and disaster recovery for Microsoft's new Windows Server 2008.
FalconStor
provides "near-instantaneous disaster recovery"
over WANs in both physical server and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual server
environments, a FalconStor spokesperson said.
Because the FalconStor Network Storage Server integrates physical and virtual
hardware and software, the combination of Windows
Server 2008 Failover Clustering and Hyper-V servers
enables automatic failover of applications running on geographically dispersed
physical and virtual servers.
This combination of products provides enterprises with
data protection and immediate recovery from server failure, the spokesperson
said.
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V in multisite cluster deployments enables
virtualization and optimizes infrastructure and the rapid provisioning of new
servers using systems management tools for both physical and virtualized
environments.
FalconStor's NSS software automatically protects both Windows Server
2008 and Hyper-V clusters through WAN optimization and automated multisite
cluster failover integration. Using the NSS
software, customers can unify multivendor SAN (storage
area network) environments and replicate to a remote site using nearly any
vendor's storage equipment at either location, the company said.
"In the past, integrating high-availability and disaster recovery
capabilities together into a 'geoclustering' solution has been an expensive
proposition that required significant administration sophistication and
expertise," said Eric Burgener, senior analyst at the Taneja Group.
"FalconStor now has added capabilities to its core NSS
software offering that make creating these configurations for Windows Server
2008 environments simpler and more cost-effective. This development will be
welcomed by midmarket and enterprise customers alike," Burgener said.
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