Degussa Deems FalconStor the Right Formula for Storage Consolidation and Accelerated Backup and Recovery

Business Wire, Nov 16, 2004

RHEINFELDEN, Germany -- German Chemical Company Chooses IPStor to Deliver Cost Effective, Centralized Storage Management, Scalability and Business Continuity

FalconStor Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: FALC), a leading developer of network storage software solutions, today announced that Degussa has implemented FalconStor's IPStor(R) Enterprise Edition software to deliver centralized storage management and scalability, as well as accelerated backup and recovery for business continuity.

The installation enables Degussa to maximize its existing storage resources and leverage IPStor's storage services for its Lotus Notes, Oracle, and SQL databases. The flexibility and cost-efficiency, together with future scalability, ensured that the FalconStor solution, implemented by TIM, a leading German solutions integrator, fully addressed Degussa's meticulous procurement criteria.

"We determined that flexibility, easy administration, data integrity, rapid recovery, and an integrated backup/restore process were all equally important as avoiding being locked into one storage vendor for all of our IT requirements," said Ulrich Sehringer, IT Manager of Degussa. "IPStor provided the best performance/ratio for acquiring the advanced storage services we needed, with the ability to manage our corporate storage using any Fibre Channel disk subsystem in an mixed SAN environment, with competitive pricing."

Degussa is leveraging IPStor's advanced storage services, with TimeMark(R), to ensure the transactional integrity and point-in-time consistency of the chemical company's Notes, Oracle, and SQL applications during data replication, and its use of HyperTrac(TM) in conjunction with TimeView(R) for faster and simpler backups, delivering mountable delta snapshot images of its data directly to the backup server from the IPStor appliance in the SAN, for file-by-file or image backup to tape at the speed of SAN.

"Industrial verticals, such as chemical corporations, are finding that the high amount of data growth they are experiencing is becoming quite a challenge to manage, and a strain on their IT resources," said Guy Berlo, regional director, central region, FalconStor. "These companies are seeking a storage infrastructure robust enough to support their business demands, and we're delighted that Degussa turned to FalconStor and TIM for a solution that satisfied their IT and business requirements."

To read the complete release, including the Safe Harbor agreement, visit www.falconstor.com/degussa.asp.>

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