Use Cases
FalconStor solves the most prevasive challenges in backup and archival today.
MSPs deliver a profitable Backup-as-a-Service, powered by StorSafe VTL, along with Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service.
Increase performance, deduplicate up to 95%, and transmit a copy to the cloud.
Automated, tape-free, deduplicated, encrypted offsite archival.
Deduplication reduces backup image size, drastically reducing the amount of data to store.
Ensure backup windows are met, while reducing downtime during restores.
Migration to the Cloud
Back up on-premises applications and then restore them to a cloud-based virtual server.
Cloud Native Backup
Back up your cloud resident applications and reduce the backup data up to 95% over time.
Single High Availability Solution for Heterogeneous Storage Arrays
Customer Need
Maximize uptime for mission-critical workloads with cost-effective technology that does not require new hardware or network expansion.
StorGuard™ Solution
StorGuard delivers high availability by standing in front of disk arrays owned today or acquired in the future. Nothing’s more important than mission-critical applications having access to block storage resources. But disk arrays only offer high availability up to a point. With StorGuard, multiple disk arrays can be used to provide high availability to storage resources that can withstand the failure of an entire site. Plus, MicroScan reduces the amount of data that needs to be sent over the wire both locally and for disaster recovery replication.
Customer Outcome
Using StorGuard’s six advanced data services for underlying disk arrays, customers enjoy a single high availability solution that can span a datacenter, metro-region, or hybrid cloud. And StorGuard includes secure multi-tenancy, RBAC, and tenant bill-back, allowing MSPs an easy way to deliver Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service.
Meet Tight Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO)
Customer Need
Strengthen business continuity with targeted RTO/RPO for mission-critical workloads.
StorGuard™ Solution
Disaster recovery for on-premises and across a metro region is simplified with transactionally consistent snapshots and a bespoke journal that protects information at a per-write level of granularity, recovering up to the last bit of information written before a service outage.
StorGuard provides the ability to recover lost files by mounting a snapshot. The client can control their own restores with DiskSafe, as opposed to having the backup administrator do it.
StorGuard can optionally run agents on key mission-critical application servers that quiesce them prior to a snapshot being taken for a rock-solid recovery point.
Customer Outcome
Using StorGuard’s six advanced data services for underlying disk arrays, customers enjoy a single snapshot solution that can span a datacenter, metro-region, or hybrid cloud. With StorGuard’s lightning-fast snapshots of LUNs or groups of LUNs placed into a consistency group, safe recovery points exist for the storage administrator and backup software.
Ransomware Protection and Recovery
Customer Need
With ransomware, you never know when it will hit you. Perhaps you took a snapshot 4 hours ago and ransomware hit 5 minutes ago. You don’t really want to fall back to 4 hours ago.
StorGuard™ Solution
Use StorGuard to return to 5 minutes and one second ago as the Recovery Point. StorGuard keeps track of all writes to all LUNs and provides a convenient user interface to enable the administrator to choose the best recovery point, with microsecond granularity.
The hardened Linux OS on StorGuard also protects against ransomware attacks. You can roll back to a previous snapshot, and your original image is protected because you can tell it to get rid of any changes made when you mount your snapshot and remove it.
Customer Outcome
Customers respond to ransomware attacks with recovery of a mission-critical server either from a quiesced snapshot or a point in time provided by the continuous data protection journal, which has granularity in microseconds.
A GUI is provided to show the amount of I/O activity over time. The administrator can zoom in on the timeline to choose a point of low I/O activity as a recovery point.
Data Migration
Customer Need
Move data easily, whether from one disk array to another or to a cloud location.
StorGuard™ Solution
StorGuard migrates data from one disk array to another on a LUN-by-LUN basis. Depending on the distance involved synchronous replication will be used with them in a data center or metro region, and asynchronous replication will be used when the distances are further.
Importantly, the LUNs can continue to be used by the mission-critical application servers while they are being migrated. So, whether you’re moving into a new disk array, to a new datacenter, or to the cloud, StorGuard makes it easy.
Customer Outcome
Customers can easily migrate data while maximizing uptime with StorGuard data services for underlying disk arrays. Plus, customers get a single high availability solution that can span a datacenter, metro-region, or hybrid cloud.
Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service
Customer Need
Use a Managed Service Provider (MSP) to secure a robust disaster recovery solution.
StorGuard™ Solution
StorGuard provides a single high availability solution that can span a datacenter, metro-region, or hybrid cloud, allowing MSPs to offer a range of DR services. Plus, StorGuard utilizes any brand of iSCSI or Fibre Channel disk array, so each customer site can continue to use their hardware vendors of choice. StorGuard includes secure multi-tenancy, RBAC, and tenant bill-back, allowing MSPs an easy way to deliver Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service.
Should an entire site fail, StorGuard can perform an intelligent failover / failback to another site or cloud. It integrates with vSphere and Hyper-V manager, and does P2P, P2V, V2V and V2P.
Customer Outcome
Customer gets full disaster recovery, including intelligent failover and failback of an entire datacenter including compute servers, networking, and storage – that may span sites and clouds.