| Carlsbad 01 October 2008
FalconStor, specialized in TOTALLY Open data protection solutions for Enterprises and SMBs, has core-certified Dot Hill's 2730 and 5730 RAID arrays for use with the FalconStor Virtual Tape Library (VTL), FalconStor Single Instance Repository (SIR), FalconStor Continuous Data Protector (CDP) and FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS), resulting in proven performance and scalability for businesses looking for storage virtualization, data protection, and disaster recovery solutions.
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"This certification with the FalconStor suite of data protection products arms our mutual partners and customers with the ability to implement smart storage solutions at a reasonable price", stated Cooper Cowart, Dot Hill's vice president of marketing. "By certifying the 2730 and 5730 together with the FalconStor suite, Dot Hill ensures that customers can seamlessly scale FalconStor storage solutions with their business needs. The Rapid Evolution architecture of the 2730 and 5730 significantly accelerates time-to-market as a competitive differentiator for our mutual go-to-market partners."
"The certification of FalconStor VTL, CDP, and NSS solutions with Dot Hill's 2730 and 5730 Fibre Channel RAID systems is part of our ongoing commitment to help customers build and utilize a more efficient and cost-effective SAN, while meeting their growing data requirements", stated Bernie Wu, FalconStor vice president of business development. "Leveraging FalconStor software's any-to-any connectivity together with Dot Hill's entry-level and midrange RAID solutions make it easy for customers to implement, manage and grow their storage."
FalconStor VTL provides organisations with high-performance, enterprise-level disk-based data protection to meet back-up demands, simplify tape management, and enhance tape security. FalconStor SIR, used in conjunction with FalconStor VTL, delivers global deduplication without impacting the backup window. FalconStor CDP provides advanced disk-based data protection to enable continuous application availability for physical and virtual environments. The FalconStor NSS storage virtualization solution delivers enterprise-class performance, reliability, and heterogeneous storage management. Data snapshots can be readily and promptly used for data protection and recovery. FalconStor NSS also uses thin provisioning to improve storage utilization and maximize ROI.
The entry-level 2730 storage array, featuring Dot Hill's R/Evolution Architecture, is the company's next-generation, flexible storage platform for OEMs. The 2730 features 4Gb Fibre Channel host connectivity, which allows customers to experience the quality, availability and ease-of-use of up to 56 mixed SAS and SATA drives.
Also based on Dot Hill's proven R/Evolution Architecture, the Dot Hill midrange 5730 storage array is designed for higher scalability and performance. The 5730 scales to support up to 108 mixed SAS/SATA disk drives and offers enhanced processing power, providing more than 1.6 GB/second read and 1.3 GB/second write throughput and 375,000 IOPS, driving application performance to new levels in a variety of environments. The 5730 is also certified to NEBS Level 3 requirements and tested to meet MIL-STD 810F certification requirements for land, sea and air deployment. Patented technologies such as Simulcache, EcoStor and AssuredSnap, combined with Dot Hill's customized go-to-market model, provide customers and partners with all the necessary tools for success across both entry-level and midrange products. |
