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3 Reasons Why IBM Power10 Organizations Need FalconStor StorSafe VTL

Cathy Won
October 24, 2023
2 minutes read

The Power of VTLs for IBM Power10

IBM Power10 is the latest series of enterprise servers from IBM known as the trusted foundation for modernization, delivering better performance and security for today’s applications. IBM Power10 was specifically built to deliver agility for the most demanding applications.

If you have an IBM Power10 installation, the next automatic choice should be FalconStor StorSafe VTL to optimize your backup and recovery.

First reason, FalconStor StorSafe VTL provides streamlined and cost-effective on-premises storage for IBM Power10 systems. IBM Power10 installations require the highly sophisticated deduplication capabilities of FalconStor StorSafe VTL to enhance performance, by cutting backup windows and improving storage efficiency by up to 95%. FalconStor StorSafe VTL can connect to IBM Power10 hosts via FC (Fibre Channel) or iSCSI.

Second, it isn’t any secret that the most demanding applications also require pervasive security and the utmost resiliency. Simply put, IBM Power10 organizations demand powerful security. The biggest threats come from cybersecurity attacks. How does FalconStor meet those demands? FalconStor StorSafe VTL delivers air-gapped and immutable data storage as part of the backup process to ensure superior cybersecurity and ransomware protection, including on IBM Cloud Object Service. The data is protected from attacks externally and internally and enables organizations to also meet escrow and compliance requirements.

Finally, do you need to migrate your IBM Power10 data to the cloud? Simply use FalconStor StorSafe VTL to migrate your IBM Power10 data to IBM Power Virtual Server seamlessly. Ingest data from tape, disk, NAS (Network Attached Storage), or Data Domain to IBM Power Virtual Server using FalconStor StorSafe VTL easily. For IBM Power Virtual Server users, the obvious choice is FalconStor StorSafe VTL, because it is the only system that can backup and recover IBM i workloads that are over 2TB in IBM Power Virtual Server.

That wraps up the 3 reasons. The bonus? No changes are needed to your existing backup and recovery processes.

Cathy Won

Cathy brings her passion for technology and products to FalconStor with a background of leading teams in product marketing, product management and engineering for both software and hardware companies in storage, networking, finance, and healthcare. As a strategic and innovative thinker, she brings a unique blend of understanding the balance of business demands and technology in products. She has led key marketing initiatives for companies like HPE, NetApp, Dell EMC, Veritas, Juniper Networks and more, as a consultant and employee. She holds an MBA and B.S. in Information Systems.