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

FalconStor® File-interface Deduplication System (FDS) is the industry's first high availability (HA) NAS deduplication solution offering high performance, Symantec NetBackup OpenStorage (OST) integration, enterprise-level functionality, disk-to-disk (D2D) data protection, integrated replication, and global block-level data deduplication in a single, easy-to-deploy product. This solution helps reduce disk capacity by 95% or more and network bandwidth usage by 99% — allowing companies to retain more data on disk, improve restore performance, reclaim floor space in the data centre, and minimize power and cooling requirements and costs.

FalconStor FDS minimizes storage capacity for the widest variety of business data, including databases, user-shared data, backups, archives, and virtual machine data. FalconStor FDS improves capacity optimization by analyzing new data against existing repository deduplicated data to identify redundant data, reducing the original data set by as much as 20 times. WAN-optimized replication fosters cost-effective DR by transmitting only unique, globally deduplicated data. FalconStor FDS significantly changes the economics of secondary storage, dramatically reducing costs and improving data recovery times while making WAN-optimized replication an operational reality for organizations of all sizes.

FalconStor offers various deployment models and configuration options to meet the end-to-end needs of companies of all sizes. FalconStor FDS scales from small-footprint, cost-effective ROBO deployments up to rack solutions that support multiple petabytes of logical storage capacity for enterprise and data centre installations. All models offer the same enterprise-level functionality and support for NFS/CIFS, Symantec OST, and replication. Physical managed capacity ranges from 1TB to 68TB in a single node corresponding, to 20TB to 1.36 PB of logical repository, using an average 20:1 deduplication ratio