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Addleshaw Goddard Concludes FalconStor Fittest to Manage Its Storage Environment; Leading UK Law Firm Chooses IPStor for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

Business Wire, March 16, 2005

LEEDS, United Kingdom -- FalconStor Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: FALC), a leading developer of network storage software solutions, today announced that Addleshaw Goddard, a leading UK law practice, has chosen FalconStor's IPStor(R) Enterprise Edition software to ensure business continuity and to deliver a greater return on investment from its existing storage resources.

At Addleshaw Goddard, with offices in London, Leeds and Manchester, and practice areas including commercial, corporate, employment, litigation, finance and projects, property, and private client, business continuity, minimal downtime and disaster recovery became the focus in the firm's search for a new, efficient storage solution.

"From a management point of view, IPStor fulfills a number of items on our 'wish list.' Using IPStor to pool our storage resources means that we now only need to keep the pool topped up, rather than over provision storage at the server level," said Daniel Simms, head of IT Operations for Addleshaw Goddard. "Because IPStor manages heterogeneous storage devices, it also means that we can top the pool up with whatever devices we choose, rather than being locked into a specific medium or vendor. And, of course, we are protected from disaster thanks to the remote replication."

IPStor will manage an initial 4TB of data across Addleshaw Goddard's data centers in Leeds, Manchester and London. The firm plans to leverage the remote replication functionality in IPStor to copy data to a disaster recovery site so that in the event of a major incident, IT administrators can easily redirect application servers quickly to access data from the backup data center, allowing operations to continue seamlessly with negligible total downtime.

Addleshaw Goddard intends to leverage IPStor to aggregate and provision pools of storage from its existing SAN resources, and to quickly allocate storage to any of its servers. This gives the law firm additional flexibility in terms of scalability, while it also reduces the over-provisioning of storage to each application server.

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