Awards & Accolades

RECENT AWARDS & ACCOLADES

2020

CRN has chosen FalconStor as a top vendor to watch, as FalconStor’s storage container initiative has resonated very well in the market.

2017

Network Computing has named FreeStor® as a finalist for the 2017 Storage Product of the Year award.

2016

The Corporate Culture Awards program honors companies that foster a creative, collaborative workplace culture that has helped them enhance performance and sustain a competitive advantage.

2016

FreeStor® has been named the winner in the Storage Management Product of the Year category at the 2016 Storage, Virtualization, Cloud (SVC) Awards by a panel of respected editors and analysts.

2016

FreeStor® has been named Product of the Year at Cloud Hosting Magazine’s Cloud Hosting Awards 2016.

2016

FalconStor’s Gary Quinn has been announced as a gold winner in the prestigious CEO World Awards® in the category CEO of the Year. The coveted annual CEO World Awards program encompasses the world’s best in leadership, innovation, organizational performance, new products and services, CEO case studies, corporate social responsibility, and milestones from every major industry.

2016

FreeStor® has won Storage Product of the Year 2016 by Network Computing UK. The awards were presented on March 17th at the Hotel Russell in London​ and were judged by industry peers on the Network Computing Awards site. ​

2016

FREESTOR WINS DATA CENTRE ICT MANAGEMENT PRODUCT OF THE YEAR AWARD

FreeStor ® has won Data Centre ICT Management Product of the Year 2016 at the DCS Awards UK. FreeStor was also a runner-up in the Data Centre Software Defined Storage Product of the Year category. The awards were presented on May 12th at the Grange St Paul’s Hotel in London and were judged by industry peers and a public vote on the DCS Awards site.

2016

FreeStor® has been named a finalist in this year’s Storage Magazine and SearchStorage.com’s Product of the Year awards in the Enterprise Storage System Software category in the 14th annual TechTarget competition. Finalists were judged by a panel comprised of a cross-section of users, analysts, consultants and Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com editors. The products are rated according to their innovation, performance, ease of integration, ease of use, functionality and value. Results will be published in the February issue of Storage magazine and online.

2015

IT168 gave FreeStor® it’s 2015 Award of Product Innovation for leadership in Software Defined Storage. IT168.com, a leading online information portal in China, noted FreeStor’s heterogeneous approach, all inclusive pricing and ability to modernize existing storage as reasons for the award.

2015

FreeStor® has been awarded Software-Defined Storage Product of the Year for 2015 by DOIT China for innovation and leadership in SDS solutions.

2015

ZDNET 2015 SDS PRODUCT OF THE YEAR AWARD

ZDNet awarded FreeStor® it’s prestigious Product of the Year Award in the Software-Defined Storage (SDS) Category for 2015. According to ZDNet, innovation in SDS, being truly hardware agnostic, and providing the flexibility and freedom to modernize existing storage infrastructures are just a few of the reasons FreeStor won the award.

2015

ZDNET 2015 PRODUCT INNOVATION AWARD - CDP 8.0

ZDNet awarded FalconStor® CDP 8.0 it’s 2015 Product Innovation Award for Data Protection. This was in recognition of how CDP has revolutionized and simplified the approach to disaster recovery and data protection.

2015

SVC AWARDS 2015

FreeStor® has been named the winner in the Virtualization/Software Defined Storage Product of the Year category at the 2015 Storage, Virtualization, Cloud (SVC) Awards by a panel of respected editors and analysts. Adding to the winning streak, FalconStor won as runner-up in the Storage Company of the Year category.

2015

CTR 2015 MVP AWARD - DATA STORAGE

FreeStor® wins MVP award from Computer Technology Review for best true Software-Defined Storage solution.

2014

2014 LISTNET LONG ISLAND SOFTWARE AWARD

FalconStor’s Network Storage Server (NSS) was recognized as a Long Island Software Award (LISA) recipient at the 2014 LISTnet Long Island Software Awards. The LISAs showcase the strength and diversity of Long Island’s software industry.

2013

2013 LISTNET LONG ISLAND SOFTWARE AWARD

FalconStor’s RecoverTrac 2.6 was recognized as a Long Island Software Award (LISA) recipient at the 2013 LISTnet Long Island Software Awards. The LISAs showcase the strength and diversity of Long Island’s software industry.

2013

CRN'S 2013 CHANNEL CHIEFS RECOGNITION

Gary Quinn, FalconStor’s Vice President of North American sales and marketing, has been honored as one of UBM Tech Channel’s CRN 2013 Channel Chiefs. This prestigious list of the most influential and powerful leaders in the IT channel recognizes those executives directly responsible for driving channel sales and growth within their organizations, while evangelizing and defending the importance of the channel throughout the entire IT industry.

2012

STORAGE MAGAZINE'S 2012 PRODUCTS OF THE YEAR AWARDS

FalconStor RecoverTrac was named a finalist in Storage Magazine and SearchStorage.com’s 2012 Products of the Year Awards in the Data Backup and Recovery Software and Services category. Assisted by a panel of consultants, analysts, and users, the editors of Storage Magazine and SearchStorage.com selected the best data storage products on the market based on innovation, performance, ease of integration into an environment, ease of use and manageability, functionality, and value.

2012

WINDOWS IT PRO'S 2012 EDITOR'S BEST AWARDS

The FalconStor® Network Storage Server (NSS) storage virtualization solution, was recognized as a silver medal winner in Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro “2012 Editors’ Best Awards” in the Best Hardware: Appliance category. Leveraging the industry expertise of its editors and authors, Windows IT Pro chose to honor FalconStor NSS based on its strategic importance to market, its competitive advantages and its value to customers.

2012

TECHTARGET'S BEST OF VMWORLD 2012 AWARD

FalconStor RecoverTrac 2.5 was chosen as the winner of TechTarget’s Best of VMworld 2012 awards in the business continuity and data protection category. The annual Best of VMworld awards showcases the top technologies of the year as chosen by a group of independent industry experts. FalconStor’s RecoverTrac DR automation tool was selected as a top candidate out of 200 entries for its unique process in performing physical-to-virtual backups and for the continuous data protection that FalconStor solutions offer.

2012

2012 NWA INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AWARD

FalconStor was honored with the Best Backup & Recovery Solution award at the 2012 NWA Information Management Awards, recognizing Asia’s leaders in Information Security, Storage and Data Management. NWA measures vendors based on marketplace reputation, product features, technology/brand acceptance, user feedback, and contributing factors such as durability, scalability, and quality of services.

2012

CRN'S 2012 VIRTUALIZATION 100 RECOGNITION

FalconStor was recognized in CRN’s 2012 Virtualization 100 List , featuring the top vendors in the virtualization space. The list is comprised of companies with the most innovative and forward-thinking approaches to selling products and services through the IT channel.

2012

2012 LISTNET LONG ISLAND SOFTWARE AWARD

FalconStor’s CDP v7 was recognized as a 2012 Long Island Software Award (LISA) recipient at the 2012 LISTnet Long Island Software Awards. The LISAs showcase the strength and diversity of Long Island’s software industry.

2012

CRN DESIGNATES FALCONSTOR PARTNERCHOICE A 2012 5-STAR PARTNER PROGRAM

FalconStor has been named to CRN’s 2012 Partner Programs Guide, and the FalconStor PartnerChoice program was awarded a 5-Star Partner Program rating. CRN’s 5-Star rating recognizes an elite subset of vendors who give solution providers the best partnering elements in their channel programs.

2012

CRN'S 2012 CHANNEL CHIEFS RECOGNITION

Brendan Kinkade, vice president of channel management, has been named one of CRN’s 2012 Channel Chiefs. This prestigious list of the most influential and powerful leaders in the IT channel recognizes those executives directly responsible for driving channel sales and growth within their organizations, while evangelizing and defending the importance of the channel throughout the entire IT industry.

2011

2011 PRODUCT OF THE YEAR FINALIST: FALCONSTOR CDP

FalconStor CDP with RecoverTrac was chosen as a finalist in Storage magazine and searchstorage.com’s 2011 Products of the Year in the category of backup and disaster recovery software and services . Finalists were selected from nearly 200 entries in six data storage categories. The product was chosen for its attributes including unified backup and disaster recovery, local and remote data recovery, and its ability to provide automated and service-oriented disaster recovery through RecoverTrac technology.

2011

2011 HP ALLIANCEONE SOLUTION PARTNER OF THE YEAR AWARD

FalconStor received the 2011 HP AllianceONE Partner of the Year Award in the category of HP Converged Infrastructure Solutions – Government for the combined deployment of FalconStor NSS with HP Converged Infrastructure in a leading government institution in Berlin, Germany.

2011

FALCONSTOR NAMED ON CRN'S 25 “NEED TO KNOW: STORAGE VENDORS” LIST

FalconStor was named on CRN’s 25 “Need to Know: Storage Vendors” list . The list is composed of 25 “need to know vendors” that represent different parts of the storage industry and includes the channel chiefs of each of these vendors since the CRN editors consider the storage business as probably the most channel-friendly part of the IT industry.

2011

CRN'S 2011 CHANNEL CHIEFS RECOGNITION

FalconStor VP of Channel Marketing Brendan Kinkade was named Channel Chief by Everything Channel’s CRN. The CRN Channel Chiefs list is a comprehensive listing of the leading channel executives at vendor organizations and their accomplishments.

2011

EVERYTHING CHANNEL'S CRN VIRTUALIZATION 100 LIST

FalconStor was named to Everything Channel’s CRN Virtualization 100 List for its commitment to providing innovative data protection solutions for virtual environments and for its successful partnership with the channel.

2011

2011 LISTNET LONG ISLAND SOFTWARE AWARD

FalconStor RecoverTrac™ was recognized as a 2011 Long Island Software Award (LISA) recipient of the 2011 LISTnet Long Island Software Award. The LISAs showcase the strength and diversity of Long Island’s software industry.

2011

2011 FIVE-STAR PARTNER PROGRAM GUIDE CERTIFICATION

Everything Channel awarded FalconStor Software with 2011 Five-Star Partner Program Guide Certification . CRN’s Partner Programs Guide and 5-Star Partner ratings serve as the definitive list of vendors who have robust partner programs or products that service solution providers offer directly to the IT channel.

2010

2010 PRODUCT OF THE YEAR FINALIST

The FalconStor NSS SAN Accelerator solution was named a 2010 Product of the Year finalist by Storage Magazine and SearchStorage.com. Combining powerful storage virtualization with solid-state disk (SSD) and solid-state memory, this solution provides intelligent, predictable performance acceleration across storage resources for fast data read/write.

2010

CRN TOP WOMEN OF THE CHANNEL AWARD 2010

FalconStor VP of NA Sales Wendy Petty is named one of the Top Women of the Channel by CRN, for accomplishments and impact in the technology industry.

2010

BEST OF SHOW AT FOSE 2010 AWARD

FalconStor® File-Interface Deduplication System earns Best of Show at FOSE 2010, recognized as the “Next Wave in Storage.”

2010

EVERYTHING CHANNEL AWARD 2010

Everything Channel awards FalconStor Software with 2010 Five-Star Partner Program Guide Certification.

2009

CRN 2009 TECH INNOVATOR AWARD

Providing easy-to-install, easy-to-use data deduplicaton solutions, FalconStor has been selected by Everything Channel’s CRN as the 2009 Tech Innovator of the Year for FalconStor FDS.

2009

EVERYTHING CHANNEL 2009 AWARD

FalconStor Software was Certified by United Business Media’s Everything Channel as a 5-Star Overall Winner in its 2009 Partner Program Guide.

2008

STORAGE MAGAZINE 2008 PRODUCT AWARD

FalconStor ® Network Storage Server was honored with the Silver award in the “Backup and Disaster Recovery Software and Services” category of Storage magazine’s 2008 Products of the Year.

2008

BEST PRACTICE AWARD

Technology Managers Forum Recognizes Best Practices in IT Management.

2008

GOLD 5-STAR OVERALL WINNER 2008

FalconStor Software was Certified by CMP Channel’s VARBusiness as a Gold 5-Star Overall Winner in its 2008 Partner Program Guide.

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Vicki Grey, Head of Marketing
FalconStor Software Inc.
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Investor Relations
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FalconStor Software Inc.
investorrelations@falconstor.com

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