Company Raises the Standard for Network Storage Infrastructure Software with New Version of IPStor Enterprise Edition.
Further demonstrating its leadership role in the storage industry, FalconStor Software today announced the availability of the next generation of its award winning IPStor Enterprise Edition network storage infrastructure software solution, designed specifically to deliver the advanced data and storage management features needed to unify storage and ensure enterprise-level interoperability, optimize performance, enhance security, facilitate information lifecycle management, and help companies achieve regulatory compliance.
FalconStor continues to invest resources in the development of enterprise class services that will set a new standard for network storage solutions, while addressing the growing complexities and costs associated with storage management for both networked and direct attached storage across Fibre Channel and IP/iSCSI. The company is also completing compatibility testing of IPStor with leading Intel and AMD 64 bit servers, which will allow companies purchasing these systems to leverage the storage services offered by IPStor.
“Today’s corporate IT storage environments are having more demands placed upon them, with regulatory compliance and corporate governance initiatives as major factors,” said Brian Garrett, Technical Director, Enterprise Strategy Group Lab. “FalconStor’s WORMLock software in the latest version of IPStor is an intelligent, cost-effective, and easy to use solution that delivers the essential functionality needed to help customers develop best practices for corporate governance and compliance mandates. WORMLock drives down total cost of ownership by utilizing existing disk arrays for WORM volumes as a cost effective alternative to optical storage and specialized storage subsystems.”
The new IPStor WORMLock Option for NAS addresses regulatory compliance by enabling an organization to use off-the-shelf, third party disk arrays to emulate the behavior of traditional WORM media to meet internal and external data retention requirements associated with securing, protecting, and storing regulated information. It facilitates archiving and retrieval of files based on the write-once-read-many paradigm (WORM), and can attach a hidden digital signature to uniquely identify each file and protect it from being changed for a specified period of time. Once a file is locked, it cannot be changed or removed until the retention period has been met, and any attempt to access or tamper with a locked file (i.e., changing the system clock to hasten the retention period) is detected and logged. IPStor Capacity-on-Demand Agents for NAS also support WORMLock volumes for long-term data archiving.
The IPStor Capacity-on-Demand option assists information lifecycle management by optimizing disk space utilization and automatically performing real-time disk space provisioning based on policies. To ensure business continuity and prevent downtime caused by low disk space conditions, it also performs automatic capacity expansion of NAS shares, sensing when available disk space come close to a critically low point by means of a pre-determined setting.
