Founded in 2000, FalconStor is one of the companies that pioneered the current generation of advanced data protection software such as Virtual Tape Library (VTL), Continuous Data Protection (CDP) and Storage Virtualization. In 2007, after seven years of steady growth in shareholder value, the price for a share of FALC hit an all-time high of $ 13.90, and FalconStor’s market cap almost reached $ 600 million. By November of 2008, FALC slid to an all-time low of $ 2.15–but the company continued to build on the same blueprint until the sudden resignation in September, 2010, of longtime CEO, ReiJane Huai.
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Extreme Makeover: FalconStor Edition
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Salesforce Adds Database-as-a-Service Offering And Free Chatter
Salesforce.com, known for its sales force automation and customer relationship management capabilities, is now adding a database offering. The company introduced Database.com at its Dreamforce 2010 conference in San Francisco.
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StorSimple Dedupes Application Data to the Cloud
I must admit that I’ve been seduced by the siren song of public cloud storage. The thought of infinite scalability, on demand, without huge upfront capital expense sounds great to me. Cloud storage gateways like StorSimple’s address the challenges of public cloud storage usage, object APIs and latency. Like some other cloud storage gateways, StorSimple’s appliances present the cloud as iSCSI block storage, but its secret sauce is in the application plug-ins.
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Why Not Mirror In The Volume Manager?
As I talk to users and vendors about their data protection schemes, I’ve noticed that many organizations protect their mission-critical applications by synchronously mirroring data from a primary array to a secondary array. They then replicate from the secondary array off-site, or off-campus, asynchronously to a third target. As I think about this architecture, I’ve started wondering if companies might not be better off mirroring to the primary and secondary arrays directly from their servers, rather than replicating synchronously.
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Novell Cloud Manager: There’s An iPhone App For That
Novell has updated its Novell Cloud Manager cloud management tool with a number of new features, including an application for access from an Apple iPhone. Novell Cloud Manager 1.1 also adds an enhanced ability to import existing hosts and virtual machines into the cloud. Cloud Manager was introduced in September to help enterprises manage private cloud environments that they operate within their own data centers.
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Compellent – Taking On The Enterprise Challenge
On November 22nd, Compellent announced the newest release of StorageCenter Version 5.4, new Live Volume software, new Enterprise Manager multi-site tool capabilities, along with next-generation hardware that is faster, stores more data and connects to FCoE, and 10GbE iSCSI. Back in October, I wrote that Compellent was rising to the enterprise challenge. With this announcement, it’s clear to me that Compellent is taking on the enterprise challenge, and may be swinging the acquisition pendulum in their direction.
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StorSimple Backs Up SharePoint To The Cloud
Users of Microsoft’s SharePoint business collaboration platform can greatly reduce the amount of space the application takes up with the Armada device from StorSimple. StorSimple Armada works by deduplicating and intelligently examining data, keeping the most-used data on serial-attached SCSI drives within the device and migrating less-used data to the cloud.
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Altor Strengthens Juniper’s Virtualization Security
Juniper Networks’ decision to increase its stake in virtualization security specialist Altor Networks to 100 percent was a fairly obvious move, says analyst Zeus Kerravala of the Yankee Group. “Juniper has been trying to strengthen their enterprise portfolio, trying to become a more relevant vendor. This seems to fit in where Juniper is already strong and gives them a stronger presence,” Kerravala says.
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Arkeia Delivers vStorage Virtual Appliance to Protect VMware vSphere Environments
Arkeia Software, a worldwide provider of backup and disaster recovery software and appliances, today delivered the Arkeia vStorage Virtual Appliance which packages the Arkeia vStorage Backup Agent as a virtual appliance. The appliance can be rapidly deployed on any vSphere hypervisor and used to backup other virtual machines on that hypervisor or other vSphere hypervisors.
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F5 Addresses Unstructured Storage Growth
F5 Networks, Inc. (www.f5.com), which specializes in application delivery networking (ADN), is releasing cloud (ARX Cloud Extender (CE)) and virtualization (ARX Virtual Edition (VE)) enhancements to its lineup, as well as a file services solution with an open storage management API (F5 iControl). The company says these enhancements will help extend the file storage infrastructure from the data center to the cloud, accelerate automated storage tiering ROI, and provide more flexible deployment options for its solutions.
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