StorSafe®
Fast and Secure Cloud Migration and Optimized Data Protection
- with huge cost savings!
FalconStor® StorSafe® software that works with any leading backup software, emulating physical tape drives and libraries while shrinking backup images with advanced compression and patented deduplication to help reduce storage costs!
Plus, StorSafe enables disaster recovery with the same software used on-premises and in the cloud. It can accelerate migration to the cloud to enable you to start enjoying cloud benefits for all your workloads.
StorSafe Benefits
- Migration to Cloud. Simplify migration to Cloud with same software deployed on-prem and in cloud, leveraging a backup on-premises and then restoring to a cloud-based virtual server.
- Up to 95% Data Reduction. Our leadership in data deduplication techniques, underscored by 9 patents, reduces the storage capacity required by backup data on-premises and in the cloud by up to 95%.
- Reduce costs. Dramatically reduce costs with deduplication and advanced compression, reducing overall storage costs by 60% or more, even when necessary additional infrastructure costs are included.
- Ransomware Protection. Recover data from any point in time with air-gapped, immutable backups.
- Offsite Protection. Offsite copies of data help to meet regulatory and cyber security insurance requirements. For offsite protection, StorSafe exports virtual tapes as physical tapes, and keeps track of their location with an intuitive management dashboard. Virtual tapes can remain in the library for lightning fast restores or can be stubbed when exported to local object storage.
- Price/Performance Unmatched. Helps get the fastest backups and restores at 40TB/hour per compute server, measured for on-prem workloads, at the lowest price.
- Modernize. A worldwide industry leader with over an exabyte under management, FalconStor is 100% compatible with your existing backup software, hardware, and operational procedures, so you can realize value quickly without sweeping changes.
Integrate high-speed backup and tape across heterogenous environments - FalconStor StorSafe works with leading backup software, making them work better for you!
Features
Compatible. StorSafe appears as an industry-standard physical tape library over iSCSI or Fibre Channel, so it is 100% compatible with enterprise backup software, including IBM i BRMS.
Deduplication. StorSafe leverages patented, industry-leading deduplication technology to reduce highly redundant daily backup data by up to 95% over time, slashing storage and transfer costs.
Hardware Choice. StorSafe can utilize any brand of physical or virtual server, internal disks, or external block or object storage, so each customer can use their hardware vendors of choice.
Scalability. StorSafe runs in a single VM or use up to nine dedicated servers in a cluster – to meet the most demanding performance requirements. As needs grow, just add more compute, block, or object storage.
Performance. StorSafe captures backups on-premises at up to 40TB per hour and deduplicates them in-line by up to 95% over time. Restore speeds are equally impressive.
Offsite Protection. 3-2-1 offsite protection of backups is provided via physical tapes or asynchronous replication to a second copy of StorSafe VTL running in IBM PowerVS, an MSP's cloud, Azure, or AWS.
Management. StorSight® provides secure, multi-tenant management of all StorSafe VTL instances running across sites and clouds and includes RBAC, detailed reports, billing, smart alerts, and key management.
Use Case
Backup as a Service (BaaS) for MSPs
One StorSafe instance is run on-premises to capture backups and deliver fast restores from the deduplicated backups.
A second instance of StorSafe is run at the MSP’s datacenter or in clouds such as IBM, AWS, and Azure to provide offsite protection.
MSPs fit each customer site with the correct configuration and manage it all.
Use Case
Only Certified PowerVS Backup Operation
StorSafe appears as an industry-standard physical tape library to the IBM i BRMS backup and restore software so it is 100% compatible with existing processes and can be smoothly introduced without requiring any retraining for BRMS personnel.
StorSafe is the only IBM-certified data protection and migration solution for IBM PowerVS, so a 100% IBM solution can be configured.
Use Case
Migration to the Cloud
The remote twin instance of StorSafe has a copy of the deduplicated backup data so it can be directed to perform application-consistent recoveries to physical or virtual servers in the cloud, thus performing an application migration, or to support disaster recovery scenarios.
Use Case
PowerVS-Resident Backup and Disaster Recovery
When the mission-critical application servers reside exclusively in PowerVS, backups are sent to StorSafe running on virtual servers to be deduplicated up to 95% over time, slashing storage costs, and StorSafe VTL takes advantage of tiered object storage to further reduce costs.
Resources
Certification Matrix
The FalconStor Certification Matrix outlines all of the hardware and software certified to work with FalconStor products. This matrix is constantly being updated, so please check back frequently for updates.
StorSafe with StorSight® Product Collateral
Customer Success Stories
“If you need to save fast or restore fast, you need VTL.”
Read how Tupperware uses StorSafe VTL to migrate tapes to PowerVS and to help with back up/restore PowerVS workloads.
VTL Best Practices Guide
New to VTL and have a good understanding of backup applications and a basic understanding of virtual tape libraries? Read this Best Practices Guide after deploying StorSafe in your environment.