FalconStor Enhances IBM Storage Ceph with Greater Application Connectivity, Advanced Data Protection, and Enterprise Data Mobility
24 July 2024 - 8:00PM
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FalconStor Software today announces certification of both
StorSafe and StorGuard with IBM Storage Ceph, accelerating
customers’ “Journey to AI” through improved data access, migration,
and availability. FalconStor’s flagship solutions, StorSafe and
StorGuard, deliver a comprehensive suite of data and backup
optimization, virtualization, and protection, from on-premises to
hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. IBM Storage Ceph is a
scale-out, software-defined unified storage solution designed to
support data lakes for IBM watsonx.data and next-generation AI
workloads. Together, these solutions provide enterprise application
access, data migration, protection, and availability, enabling
customers to harness their massive data stores to tackle previously
unsolvable challenges using Generative AI.
StorSafe is Now Certified with Storage Ceph
IBM has certified FalconStor StorSafe with Storage Ceph, IBM’s
on-premises AI data lake offering, ensuring compatibility and full
support by IBM. StorSafe is the only IBM-certified, sold, and
supported solution for backup optimization with IBM Power Virtual
Server, available via the IBM Cloud Catalog. Now, with
certification for IBM Storage Ceph, customers can leverage both for
an enterprise-class backup solution.
StorSafe integrates with any leading backup software on IBM
Power (IBM i/AIX/Linux) or mixed heterogeneous operating systems,
utilizing advanced compression and patented block-level
deduplication to optimize backup and recovery operations while
simplifying workload and data migrations. IBM Storage Ceph object
storage is now supported as the tape archive export target for
StorSafe, offering customers low-cost storage to archive historical
backup data.
StorGuard is Now Certified with Storage Ceph
FalconStor has certified StorGuard with Storage Ceph, ensuring
seamless integration and full support by FalconStor. StorGuard
offers storage virtualization, business continuity, high
availability, system failover, and data migration. Key capabilities
brought to Storage Ceph by StorGuard include:
- Fibre Channel and iSCSI support enabling enterprise application
connection to Storage Ceph
- Data mobility via migration from heterogeneous storage
environments into Storage Ceph as well as into the cloud
- Data protection across hybrid and multi-cloud environments
- Fast, easy deployment and simplified management
IBM Storage Ceph provides an efficient way to build a data
lakehouse for IBM watsonx.data and next-generation AI workloads. It
is highly scalable, with no single point of failure, and can
support petabytes of data and billions of objects. StorGuard
enhances Storage Ceph’s capabilities by expanding enterprise
application support, facilitating data migration from non-Ceph
storage, and ensuring full data protection and high
availability.
“StorGuard has been a critical component of our enterprise data
protection strategy for many years,” said Stefan Teusch, Deputy
Head of GWDG and UMG/G3-7 - Infrastructure Operations Division,
GWDG. “Certification of Ceph is an exciting and valuable addition
as we think about the future storage, management, and use of
massive amounts of data.”
Journey to AI
FalconStor StorSafe and StorGuard deliver comprehensive
enterprise-class solutions for IBM Storage Ceph environments,
including optimized data protection, workload migration, hybrid
cloud backup and disaster recovery, ransomware recovery, storage
virtualization, high availability, and failover capability.
Together, they provide customers with the essential building blocks
for developing and deploying strategic AI solutions. By integrating
these technologies, FalconStor and IBM empower enterprises to
effectively manage their data and unlock the full potential of
AI-driven insights and innovation.
About FalconStor Software
FalconStor is the trusted data protection software leader
modernizing disaster recovery and backup operations for the hybrid
cloud world. The Company enables enterprise customers and managed
service providers to secure, migrate, and protect their data while
reducing data storage and long-term retention costs by up to 95%.
More than 1,000 organizations and managed service providers
worldwide standardize on FalconStor as the foundation for their
cloud first data protection future. Our products are offered
through and supported by a worldwide network of leading managed
service providers, system integrators, resellers, and original
equipment manufacturers.
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