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posted on 31 July 2008 12:33

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MELVILLE, N.Y., and ALISO VIEJO, Calif., July 29, 2008–FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC), the premier provider of TOTALLY Open™ data protection solutions, and QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), a leader in networking for storage and high performance computing (HPC), today announced that FalconStor has certified QLogic® 8Gb Fibre Channel adapters and SANbox® switches for use with the FalconStor® Virtual Tape Library (VTL), FalconStor Continuous Data Protector™ (CDP), and FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS) solutions, to deliver enhanced performance and scalability of FalconStor storage virtualization, data protection, and disaster recovery solutions.

Adding support for the QLogic 8Gb Fibre Channel infrastructure reiterates the FalconStor Software commitment to deliver highly integrated and TOTALLY Open solutions. Thanks to rigorous testing for complete interoperability, mutual customers can now easily and affordably deploy QLogic 8Gb Fibre Channel products across FalconStor solutions. QLogic 8Gb Fibre Channel end-to-end solutions are designed to fulfill the ever-increasing need of enterprise-class business applications for maximum performance. 8Gb Fibre Channel doubles the performance of today’s 4Gb Fibre Channel products while maintaining full backward compatibility with the large installed base of 4Gb and 2Gb Fibre Channel solutions.

"FalconStor Software’s solutions for data protection, optimized backup, and virtualization have always leveraged the fastest Fibre Channel speeds available," said Frank Berry, vice president of corporate marketing at QLogic. "Our QLogic 8Gb Fibre Channel adapters and switches qualified by FalconStor are fully backward-compatible with 4Gb and 2Gb Fibre Channel legacy products. Today, FalconStor customers can confidently begin to migrate to 8Gb Fibre Channel storage networks, doubling the performance of their current infrastructure."

“The certification of FalconStor VTL, CDP, and NSS solutions is part of our ongoing commitment to help customers build and utilize a more efficient and cost-effective SAN, while meeting their growing data requirements,” said Bernie Wu, FalconStor vice president of business development. “By leveraging FalconStor software’s any-to-any connectivity together with QLogic technology, our customers have the ability to create a powerful Fibre Channel SAN solution that is easy to use, cost-effective, and scalable."

The FalconStor VTL provides large organizations with high-performance enterprise-level disk-based data protection to meet backup demands, simplify tape management, and enhance tape security. Leveraging an 8GB Fibre Channel SAN, FalconStor VTL significantly shrinks the backup window and improves the speed and dependability of data backup and recovery, as well as Service Level Agreements (SLAs). FalconStor VTL delivers global deduplication without impacting the backup window. With deduplication, only unique data blocks are replicated to the remote site, slashing network traffic over 95 percent. Offering multi-node scalability, FalconStor VTL emulates vast arrays of tape libraries, drives, and cartridges, ensuring complete backup transparency.

FalconStor CDP provides advanced disk-based data protection to enable continuous application availability for physical and virtual environments. The 8GB Fibre Channel support allows for more effective data replication and recovery, while enabling FalconStor Software’s backup acceleration features to shrink the backup windows by eight times. The faster speed also improves SLAs and enhances the FalconStor MicroScan™ replication and compression feature within FalconStor CDP and NSS, to minimize network bandwidth requirements. This allows businesses to fully leverage virtualization technology to consolidate servers, minimize space utilization, and streamline management.

FalconStor NSS storage virtualization solution delivers enterprise-class performance, reliability, and heterogeneous storage management. Application performance speed and SLAs are significantly enhanced by taking advantage of an 8Gb Fibre Channel SAN. Data snapshots can be readily and promptly used for data protection and recovery. FalconStor NSS also uses thin provisioning to improve storage utilization and maximize ROI.

The QLogic 8Gb Network

The QLogic 8Gb Fibre Channel Storage Network is the only end-to-end 8Gb Fibre Channel SAN available today, consisting of PCI Express adapters, blade server adapters and switches. QLogic 8Gb Fibre Channel Storage Network is on the leading edge of a wave of new Fibre Channel, Ethernet, FCoE and InfiniBand storage networking technologies capable of delivering quantum increases in SAN performance. The new, higher performance SAN technologies are arriving just in time to prevent bottlenecks resulting from massive I/O aggregation driven by the deployment of dense compute nodes consisting of blade servers, multi-core processors and server virtualization.

The QLogic 8Gb Fibre Channel Storage Network is also representative of products designed for "green" computing environments where recyclable materials, space savings and energy efficiency are important. For example, SANblade® 2500 adapters feature Adaptive Power Management -- the unique ability to sense the type of PCI Express present and power only the number of lanes required to achieve maximum performance and maximum energy efficiency.

About QLogic

QLogic is a leading supplier of high performance storage networking solutions, which include the controller chips, host adapters and fabric switches that are the backbone of storage networks for most Global 2000 corporations. The company delivers a broad and diverse portfolio of products that includes Fibre Channel adapters, blade server embedded Fibre Channel switches, Fibre Channel stackable switches, iSCSI adapters and iSCSI routers. The company is also a leading supplier of InfiniBand switches and InfiniBand host channel adapters for the emerging high performance computing market. QLogic products are delivered to small-to-medium businesses and large enterprises around the world via its channel partner community. QLogic products are also powering solutions from leading companies such as Cisco, Dell, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, NetApp and Sun Microsystems. QLogic is a member of the S&P 500 Index.

About FalconStor Software, Inc.

FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC), #5 in Forbes 2008 list of America’s Fastest-Growing Technology Companies, is the market leader in disk-based data protection. We deliver proven, comprehensive data protection solutions that facilitate the continuous availability of business-critical data with speed, integrity, and simplicity. Our TOTALLY Open™ technology solutions, built upon the award-winning IPStor® platform, include the industry leading Virtual Tape Library (VTL) with deduplication, Continuous Data Protector™ (CDP), Network Storage Server (NSS), and Replication option for disaster recovery and remote office protection. Our products are available from major OEMs and solution providers including Acer, Brocade, EMC, COPAN Systems, H3C, IBM, MPC, Pillar Data Systems and Sun and are deployed by thousands of customers worldwide, from small businesses to Fortune 1000 enterprises.

FalconStor is headquartered in Melville, N.Y., with offices throughout Europe and the Asia Pacific regions including Paris, Tokyo and Taiwan. For more information, visit www.falconstor.com or call 1-866-NOW-FALC (866-669-3252).