SD WORX Declares FalconStor Chosen Solution for Centralized Storage Ma

SD WORX Declares FalconStor Chosen Solution for Centralized Storage Management, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

    Business Editors/Software Writers

    ANTWERP, Belgium--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 16, 2005--

Belgium's Leading Payroll Processing Company Selects IPStor to Achieve High Data Protection and Availability
    FalconStor Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: FALC), a leading developer of network storage software solutions, today announced that SD WORX, Belgium's leading payroll processing company, has implemented FalconStor's IPStor(R) Enterprise Edition software to reduce storage management costs, deliver high data availability, ensure business continuity and maximize storage efficiency by centralizing administration of its storage resources.
    SD WORX is leveraging its previous storage environment, consisting of islands of unconnected SANs, which placed a heavy burden on its IT staff. With the implementation of IPStor, the payroll processing company's storage environment has now been streamlined into a single StorageTek D280 Fibre Channel interface disk subsystem connected to two Brocade Silkworm 12000 switches, with the entire storage infrastructure managed by IPStor. FalconStor teamed up with StorageTek Belgium to design and deliver the complete solution to SD WORX.
    "Due to business growth, the amount of data we've been storing has been almost doubling every two years. We reached a stage where we had 20 terabytes of data, in several SAN islands, yet had no SAN management software," said Mario van den Bergh, system engineer at SD WORX. "The unconnected SANs meant that a single business continuity plan was impossible, so we went looking for a solution that could solve a great deal of pain in one hit. With IPStor, for the first time, we have centralized storage management. But even before measuring the fiscal value of those benefits, we saved $200,000 by making more efficient use of our existing disk capacity."
    The truly connected and centrally managed SAN now in place at SD WORX has eliminated their difficulties in performing reliable backups, while being able to mirror snapshots of their data warehousing and SAP applications, and their Oracle, SQL, DB2, and Exchange databases. A total of 32 application servers at the primary location, and another 42 at the secondary location, are configured in an active-active failover mode for high availability.

    To read the complete release, including the Safe Harbor agreement, visit www.falconstor.com/SDWORX.asp.

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CONTACT: FalconStor Herman Chin, 631-962-1163 Herman.Chin@FalconStor.com or FalconStor EMEA Danielle Gauthier, +33-1-3923-9553 danielle.gauthier@falconstor.com

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